Facsimile and static presentation processing – Static presentation processing – Communication
Reexamination Certificate
1999-06-04
2003-08-19
Wallerson, Mark (Department: 2622)
Facsimile and static presentation processing
Static presentation processing
Communication
C358S402000, C358S404000, C358S407000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06608694
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a communication terminal apparatus, an internet facsimile apparatus, and an e-mail receiving method.
2. Description of the Related Art
A mailer is an application that receives and transmits an e-mail, which is executed by a general personal computer (hereinafter referred to as PC). In a certain kind of mailer, if an e-mail having a large data volume is transmitted, the e-mail is divided into a plurality of e-mails (hereinafter referred to as fragments) so as to reduce each data volume. A mailer, which is executed by a recipient's PC, reads all fragments from a server into a main storing device of PC or an external storing device. Then, when all fragments are prepared, these fragments are connected to each other to be restored to the original e-mail.
In recent years, there has been a growing trend to increase an amount of network traffics due to advancement of information multimedia and the widespread use of the internet. This results in a decrease in performance of the server and that of the network. In order to solve such a problem, an addition of limitation to the volume of data passing through the server has been carried out. For this reason, the division of e-mail has become increasingly important in carrying out communications of a large amount of data such as images and voices.
On the other hand, there is proposed the so-called internet facsimile apparatus in which image data obtained by scanning an original is received and transmitted as an attached file of the e-mail over the internet. The internet facsimile apparatus has advantages in which the original can be transmitted to PC by a simple operation and the communication cost can be largely reduced by the use of the internet.
However, in the general internet facsimile apparatus, the capacity of the main storing device is relatively small, and the external storing device having a large capacity such as PC is not mounted thereon. Moreover, since the distribution of e-mail on the internet is not always carried out sequentially, there is no guarantee that the fragments are received in order and it is uncertain when all fragments are prepared. For this reason, unlike PC, in the internet facsimile apparatus, it is difficult to connect the fragments to each other after many fragments are once stored in the memory and all fragments are prepared. Conventionally, in the internet facsimile apparatus, if the fragments are on the server, these fragments are left as they are on the server without reading. Then, the internet facsimile apparatus displays an error message in which the reception is impossible on the display or prints out the message every fragment. Then, an operator must read these fragments using the mailer of PC in accordance with the error message and connect them.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
A first object of the present invention is to provide a communication terminal apparatus, which is capable of receiving a division mail at low cost.
A second object of the present invention is to provide the internet facsimile apparatus, which is capable of receiving a division mail at low cost.
A third object of the present invention is to provide an e-mail receiving method, which is capable of receiving a division mail at low cost.
The above objects are achieved by a communication terminal apparatus having: a fragment identifying section identifies whether or not an e-mail stored in a mail server is e-mail fragments; a determining section determines whether or not the all e-mail fragments are stored in the mail server; and an e-mail receiving section receives the e-mail fragments when the determining section determines that the all e-mail fragments are stored in the mail server.
The above objects are archived by an internet facsimile apparatus having: a fragment identifying section identifies whether or not an e-mail stored in a mail server is e-mail fragments; a determining section determines whether or not the all e-mail fragments are stored in the mail server; and an e-mail receiving section receives said e-mail fragments when the determining section determines that the all e-mail fragments are stored in the mail server.
The above objects are archived by a method for receiving an e-mail having: identifying whether or not an e-mail stored in a mail server is e-mail fragments; determining whether or not the all e-mail fragments are stored in the mail server; and receiving the e-mail fragments when said determining section determines that the all e-mail fragments are stored in the mail server.
According to the present invention, a division mail on a server is recognized, fragments are left on the server until all fragments are prepared. Then, if all fragments are prepared, the fragments are read sequentially and the contents thereof are sequentially output. This makes it possible to receive the division mail by the communication terminal apparatus having a small capacity. As a result, the manufacturing cost of the communication terminal apparatus can be reduced.
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patent: 6219150 (2001-04-01), Eguchi
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Panasonic Communications Co. Ltd.
Wallerson Mark
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