Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Akihito Uno

Tomomi Shiraki

An image forming device disclosed herein may comprise an image forming engine and a controller. The controller may be configured to: repeatedly send an inquiry request to a server, wherein in a case where the job execution response is received from the server, control the image forming engine to start image formation; and in the case where the job execution response is received from the server, establish a connection of server-push type with the server, wherein in a case where the server receives a job stop instruction from the terminal device, the server sends an image formation stop command to the image forming device by using the connection without receiving the inquiry request from the image forming device, wherein in a case where the image formation stop command is received from the server, the image formation is stopped.

Image forming device and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-readable instructions for image forming device

A communication device may set an operation mode of the communication device to a first mode, the first mode being for repeatedly sending a polling signal to a specific server on the Internet so as to receive target data from the specific server. The communication device may receive a response including related information which is related to the target data from the specific server, and receive a response not including the related information from the specific server. The communication device may set the operation mode of the communication device to a second mode instead of the first mode in a case where a first predetermined condition is satisfied in a state where the operation mode of the communication device is the first mode, wherein the second mode is for receiving the target data from the specific server without sending the polling signal to the specific server.

Communication device to set operation mode to first mode or second mode for receiving target data from specific server and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-readable instructions

A communication device may determine whether the communication device is in a proxy environment or in a non-proxy environment. The communication device may set an operation mode of the communication device to a first mode in a case where it is determined that the communication device is in the proxy environment, the first mode being for repeatedly sending a polling signal to the specific server so as to receive target data from the specific server. The communication device may set the operation mode of the communication device to a second mode in a case where it is determined that the communication device is in the non-proxy environment, the second mode being for receiving the target data from the specific server without sending the polling signal to the specific server.

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