Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-Kaisha

Megumi Kamata

Tokunori Kato

Minoru Oishi

A removable-medium apparatus that outputs data, which is stored on a removable medium that can be freely mounted or removed. The removable-medium apparatus comprises: a judgment unit that determines whether or not ID information that is entered matches ID information that is stored on the removable medium; and a control unit that outputs the data stored on the removable medium when the judgment unit determines that the entered ID information matches the ID information stored on the removable medium, and does not output the data stored on the removable medium when the judgment unit determines that the ID entered information does not match the ID information stored on the removable medium.

Removable-medium apparatus and control method thereof

When a memory card is inserted into a card reader of an MFP, a selected network address is set as a connection destination, and a memory card insertion signal is transmitted to the connection destination. On the other hand, when no network address is selected, all network addresses stored in the memory card are set as connection destinations, and the memory card insertion signal is transmitted to the set connection destinations. The memory card insertion signal includes information indicating the insertion of the memory card into the card reader and a network address of the MFP.

Removable media device capable of notifying network device of insertion of removable media

A digital multifunction device is provided with a RAM having a virtual drive area. A persona computer is connected to the digital multifunction device and is capable of communicating therewith via USB interface. The digital multifunction device enables a personal computer to recognize this virtual drive area as an external storage device, and the personal computer can access to the virtual drive area. Upon receipt of facsimile data, the digital multifunction device converts one page worth data to image data of PDF or TIFF format each time the one page worth data is received. After full page worth data have been received and the converted PDT or TIFF image data are put together in a single data file, the data file is written to the virtual drive area.

Data processing device, facsimile machine having data processing function, data managing device associated with the data processing device and computer program

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Nagoya, Japan

Megumi Kamata