Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Hideki Nogawa

Kiyotaka Ohara

Masaaki Hibino

Takeshi Nagasaki

Koshi Fukazawa

Akihiro Furukawa

Atsushi Kojima

Masafumi Miyazawa

Hideto Matsumoto

Takanobu Suzuki

Tetsuya Okuno

Katsunori Enomoto

Satoko Ando

Akiko Mizuno

Hiroshi Shibata

Munehisa Matsuda

Satoru Yanagi

Yoshihiro Itogawa

Sunao Kawai

Satoshi Watanabe

Yusuke Shimada

Yuki Yada

Takeshi Izaki

Hirokazu Banno

Kazutaka Yamamoto

Fumitake Tajiri

Takao Seki

Katsuaki Ito

Sho Ogura

Satoshi Matsushita

Kyohei Mori

Koki Izumi

A communication device may include: a memory configured to store management information in which, for each of a plurality of OIDs of a MIB, the OID and a setting value are associated with each other; and a controller, wherein the controller may be configured to: receive a setting command which conforms to TCP; write the setting value included in the setting command to the management information in association with the OID included in the setting command; and send a response command which conforms to the TCP. In a case where the setting command including a first OID and a first setting value is received, the controller may be configured to: write the first setting value to the management information in association with the first OID after the response command has been sent, and send the response command before the first setting value is written to the management information.

Communication device, non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-readable instructions for communication device, and method performed by communication device

An image forming device is provided with an image forming engine, a communication interface configured to communicate with terminal devices, and a controller. The controller is configured to perform obtaining, from an external device, a communication destination list in which statuses of the image forming device and one or more of the terminal devices are stored, and for each of the one or more of the terminal devices, executing a process corresponding to an instruction from the terminal device or restricting a process corresponding to the instruction from the terminal device depending on whether the terminal device is included in the communication destination list obtained in the obtaining.

Image forming device, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for obtaining communication destination list in which statuses of device and terminal devices are stored

An electronic apparatus performs: acquiring an input file name from a removable memory connected to an interface; determining whether the input file name includes a first character string and whether the input file name includes a second character string; when the input file name includes the first character string, changing current setting information into specified setting information, the current setting information being among a plurality of setting information stored in the internal memory and corresponding to a first setting item specified by first input information, the specified setting information being included in the first input information and corresponding to the first setting item; and when the input file name includes the second character string, acquiring current setting information corresponding to a second setting item specified by second input information; and storing, in the removable memory, a file including output information indicating the acquired current setting information, as an output file.

Electronic apparatus, storage medium storing computer program, and method of performing settings of electronic apparatus

In an image forming device, in a case where a storage medium is connected to an input output interface, and a storage medium stores import instruction information including a plurality of setting values, a controller imports a target value from the storage medium to a memory. The plurality of setting values is associated with respective ones of a plurality of pieces of device-specific information. The target value is a setting value selected from the plurality of setting values and is associated with a piece of device-specific information unique to the image forming device. Each of the plurality of setting values associated with respective ones of a plurality of pieces of device-specific information is for setting a prescribed parameter of a corresponding device. After the target value is imported, the controller operates according to the target value set for the prescribed parameter.

Image forming device importing setting value associated with device-specific information unique thereto

In a communication device, a processor identifies first and second group printing devices in accordance with device information on each printing device, and outputs device information corresponding to the first and second group printing devices in a distinguishable manner. A printing device having a tank accommodating printing agent greater than or equal to a first reference is identified as the first and second group printing devices. A printing device having a tank accommodating printing agent less than the first reference is identified as the second group printing device. A printing device without tank and in which a cartridge accommodating printing agent less than a second reference and greater than or equal to a third reference is identified as the first group printing device. A printing device without tank and in which the cartridge accommodating printing agent less than the third reference is identified as the second group printing device.

Communication device outputting information on a plurality of printing devices that execute printing operations using printing agent accommodated in cartridge

A communication system includes a registration server, a management server and a first target device. When receiving destination information from a communication device, the registration server transmits authentication information to the communication device, transmits screen relating information to a destination indicated by the destination information, receives user information from the communication device and registers the user information therein. When receiving the authentication information from the communication device, the first target device transmits the authentication information and first device identification information to the management server. When receiving the authentication information and the first device identification information from the first target device, the management server registers the first device identification information therein. The user information in the registration server and the first device identification information in the management server are registered with being associated with each other.

Communication system and registration server

A device disclosed here is connectable to a first type of wireless network and a second type of wireless network. The device includes a communication section, a function section, a determination section and a function control section. If the determination section determines an external device to be included in one of the first type of wireless network and the second type of wireless network, the function control section permits the external device to use a first function, and if the determination section determines the external device to be included in the other of the first type of wireless network and the second type of wireless network, the function control section prohibits the external device from using the first function.

Device performing a function depending on connected wireless network

A communication apparatus may cause a display to display a first inquiry message in a case where an apparatus search signal is received from an external apparatus, the apparatus search signal being for searching a target apparatus which is to establish a wireless connection with the external apparatus, and the first inquiry message being for inquiring a user whether a particular wireless connection is to be established between the communication apparatus and the external apparatus. The communication apparatus may establish the particular wireless connection between the communication apparatus and the external apparatus in a case where it is selected by the user, in response to the first inquiry message, that the particular wireless connection is to be established.

Communication apparatus which establishes wireless connection with external apparatus

A communication apparatus may perform: establishing a first wireless connection with the external apparatus while a wireless interface is operating in a capable state; attempting a predetermined process including a receiving process and an establishing process in a case where the first wireless connection is established, the receiving process being for receiving setting information from the external apparatus, and the establishing process being for establishing a second wireless connection with an access point; controlling wireless interface to: in a case where the second wireless connection is established, operate in an incapable state, and in a case where the second wireless connection is not established, operate in the capable state, in a case where the second wireless connection is not established; re-establishing the first wireless connection with the external apparatus; and re-attempting the predetermined process.

Communication apparatus

A wireless communication apparatus may perform receiving, from a terminal device, a signal for forming a specific wireless network including the wireless communication apparatus and the terminal device. The wireless communication apparatus may perform determining whether the related information is related to a first frequency band. The wireless communication apparatus may perform determining, by comparing the terminal index value and an apparatus index value being set in advance in the wireless communication apparatus, whether the terminal device is more likely to become a parent station than the wireless communication apparatus. The wireless communication apparatus may perform forming a second wireless network in which a second frequency band is to be used, in a case where it is determined that the related information is related to the first frequency band and it is determined that the terminal device is more likely to become the parent station than the wireless communication apparatus.

Wireless communication apparatus

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium may store computer-readable instructions for a communication device, wherein the computer-readable instructions, when executed by a processor of the communication device, cause the communication device to perform: accepting a setting operation performed; establishing a communication session with a first device without accepting a further operation; sending the plurality of setting values to the first device by using the communication session with the first device; disconnecting the communication session with the first device after the plurality of setting values has been sent to the first device; establishing a communication session with a second device without accepting a further operation; sending the plurality of setting values to the second device by using the communication session with the second device; and disconnecting the communication session with the second device after the plurality of the setting values has been sent to the second device.

Communication device and setting device for communicating a plurality of setting values related to a plurality of setting items

A first communication apparatus may comprise a memory configured to store a wireless profile being used in a first wireless network in a case where the first communication apparatus operates as a child station of the first wireless network. The first communication apparatus may determine, after the first wireless network in which each of the first communication apparatus and a second communication apparatus operates as a child station and a third communication apparatus operates as a parent station has been formed, whether a wireless connection between the first and third communication apparatuses is disconnected, and form a second wireless network in which the wireless profile is used in a case where it is determined that the wireless connection is disconnected, the second wireless network being a network in which the first communication apparatus operates as a parent station and the second communication apparatus operates as a child station.

A relay apparatus to be connected through a network to a server apparatus configured to store image data and a communication apparatus configured to acquire the image data from the server and output an image based on the acquired image data, the relay apparatus includes: a first receiving unit configured to receive a request for acquiring location information from the communication apparatus; an acquiring unit configured to acquire the location information for acquiring the image data from the server apparatus upon receipt of the request; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the acquired location information to the communication apparatus.

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Nagoya, Japan

Hideki Nogawa