Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-Kaisha

Yasuhiro Kudo

Masafumi Miyazawa

Satoru Yanagi

Masaaki Hibino

Takeshi Izaki

Shohei Tsujimoto

Makoto Nishida

Takanobu Suzuki

Hirokazu Sato

Takeshi Shiotani

Raizo Kosaka

Takashi Matsushita

Masaru Yasuda

Hiroyuki Moriguchi

Emi Kawaguchi

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores an editing program including a set of program instructions for an information processing apparatus comprising a controller and an input interface. The set of program instructions, when executed by the controller, causes the information processing apparatus to perform: acquiring a plurality of strokes inputted via the input interface; calculating a distance between two strokes of the acquired plurality of strokes; in response to determining that the calculated distance is shorter than a distance threshold, recognizing the two strokes as a same item; in response to determining that the calculated distance is longer than or equal to the distance threshold, recognizing the two strokes as separate items; and changing the distance threshold based on input via the input interface.

Storage medium storing editing program and information processing apparatus

A communication method includes: transmitting a transfer request and setting information from first to second server apparatus; transmitting a transfer notification from second to third server apparatus directly or through the first server apparatus; transmitting a transfer response from third to first server apparatus; receiving a first information request from the third server apparatus during a first period; transmitting, after the first period elapses, the first information request from first to second server apparatus; receiving a plurality of second information requests transmitted from the third server apparatus during a second period, and retaining the second information requests in a received order; and after the second period elapses, transmitting first setting information corresponding to the first information request from second to third server apparatus, and subsequently transmitting a plurality of second setting information corresponding to the second information requests from second to third server apparatus in a retained order.

Communication method, storage medium storing communication program, and communication system

A communication method includes: executing a first conference process for performing a teleconference; connecting first and second clients with the first conference process; after connecting the clients with the first conference process, performing the teleconference between the clients through the first conference process, based on first information; after connecting the clients with the first conference process, transmitting an addition request for activating a second conference process from the first conference process to a server; in response to receiving the addition request, activating the second conference process; synchronizing first and second information; after synchronizing, transmitting a switching instruction from the first conference process to the second client; in response to receiving the switching instruction, connecting the second client with the second conference process; and after connecting the second client with the second conference process, performing the teleconference by the second client through the second conference process, based on the second information.

Communication method and storage medium storing communication program

A system includes a communication control device, a first communication device and a second communication device. The communication control device acquires first network information that identifies a first internal network to which the first communication device is connected, and second network information that identifies a second internal network. The communication control device decides a first method based on the acquired information. The first method indicates a method of transmission from the first communication device to the second communication device, and of transmission from the second communication device to the first communication device. The communication control device transmits information indicating the first method to the first communication device and the second communication device. The first communication device and the second communication device mutually communicate using the first method, based on the received information indicating the first method.

Multicasting using peer-to-peer and client-server transmission modes

A printing system has a printer and a terminal device. The printer has a first data receiving unit to receive print data and layout data request that requests the terminal device to transmit layout data representing an arrangement of objects, a layout data generating unit to generate the layout data based on the print data, and a second data transmitting unit to transmit the layout data to the terminal device. The terminal device has a first data transmitting unit to transmit the print data and the layout data request to the printer, a second data receiving unit to receive the layout data from the printer, a preview image generating unit to generate preview image data representing a printing result with the use of the layout data, and a display unit to display a preview image represented by the preview image data on a display unit.

Printing system, printer and terminal device therefor, and recording medium containing program for printer or terminal device

A communication system includes a first communication terminal, a second communication terminal that has not established communication with the first communication terminal, and a third communication terminal that has established communication with the first communication terminal. The second communication terminal transmits to the first communication terminal a request packet that requests establishment of communication, and receives from the first communication terminal a permission packet that permits establishment of communication. The second communication terminal then establishes communication with the first communication terminal and performs communication with the first communication terminal. A second receiving device receives the request packet from the third communication terminal, after the first receiving device has received the permission packet from the first communication terminal; The second communication terminal transmits the permission packet to the third communication terminal, and establishes communication with the third communication terminal and performs communication with the third communication terminal.

Communication system and computer program product

A network device, connectable with a service providing server and an authentication sever via a network, includes an acquisition information storage storing acquisition information for acquiring a certificate corresponding to each of services the service providing server provides, a certificate storage storing certificates acquired from the authentication server, a determining unit that, in response to acceptance of a request for utilizing a service, determines whether a certificate necessary for utilizing the requested service is stored in the certificate storage, and a controller that, when the necessary certificate is not stored, reads out acquisition information for the necessary certificate from the acquisition information storage, makes a certificate acquiring unit acquire the necessary certificate from the authentication server using the acquisition information, and stores the necessary certificate into the certificate storage. When the necessary certificate is stored, the controller makes the certificate acquiring unit acquire the necessary certificate from the certificate storage.

Network device and computer readable medium therefor

A second terminal device is used in a system including a connection management server, a first terminal device, and the second terminal device. The second terminal device includes: a local address obtaining unit configured to obtain a first local IP address and first authentication information of the first terminal device from the connection management server, if a first global IP address matches a second global IP address; a determination unit configured to determine, by using of the obtained first authentication information, whether a first particular terminal device with which the second terminal device can communicate by use of the first local IP address is the first terminal device; and a target data communication unit configured to communicate first data with the first terminal device by using the first local IP address, if the first particular terminal device is determined to be the first terminal device.

Terminal device, system, connection management server, and computer readable medium

A print data creation device may perform a plurality of tasks in parallel. The print data creation device may be provided with a first download device, a second download device, and a sending controller. The first download device may be configured to perform a first task for downloading first data in predetermined data size units from an external device. The second download device may be configured to download second data from the external device in accordance with an address of the second data in a case where the first data having the predetermined data size includes the address of the second data. The second data may be necessary for performing a second task. The sending controller may be configured to prohibit a first download request for downloading the second data from being sent to the external device during the downloading of the first data having the predetermined data size, and to prohibit a second download request for downloading the first data having the predetermined data size from being sent to the external device during the downloading of the second data.

Technique for creating print data

A second terminal device is used in a system including a server, a first terminal device, and the second terminal device. The second terminal device includes: a first command transmission unit configured to transmit a first command to the first terminal device via the server; a storage control unit configured to hold a first address and first authentication information of the first terminal device; a second command transmission unit configured to transmit a second command to the first address; a determination unit configured to determine whether a terminal device as a destination of the second command is the first terminal device, by using first response data from the terminal device and the first authentication information; and a third command transmission unit configured to transmit a third command to the first address if the terminal device is determined to be the first terminal device.

Terminal device, system and computer readable medium

A communication device performs P2P communication with the other communication device by establishing a session through a server, and includes a first transmitting portion, if the communication device operates as a called device requested to establish the session, upon the receiving a session start message from the other communication device, transmits to the other communication device a response message including information on a port for directly receiving data from the other communication device; a session establishing portion establishes the session by transmitting a control message to a port specified by information in the session start message or a response message received from the other communication device; a command accepting portion accepts a user's command permitting to receive from the other communication device; and a starting portion starts transmitting and receiving of data to and from the other communication device, upon the accepting of the command.

Communication device, communication method, and computer-readable storage medium storing communication program

A communication system comprises a NAT device, a terminal device, and a communication control device. The communication control device comprises a first storage unit that stores a NAT address, a first receiving unit that receives a type request signal, a first determination unit that determines whether the NAT address matching a source IP address of the type request signal is stored in the first storage unit, and a first transmitting unit that transmits the type information associated with the NAT address matching the source IP address to the terminal device. The terminal device comprises a second transmitting unit that transmits the type request signal, a second receiving unit that receives the type information, and a communication control unit that performs Peer to Peer communication with another terminal device that is subordinate to another NAT device by performing communication using a method to establish communication based on the received type information.

Communication system, communication control device and communication control method

A communication device is described in which a communication path is to be established with another communication device. The communication device transmits a first request packet to the other communication device and awaits a response. When a second request packet is received from the other communication device instead of a response to the first request packet, the communication device determines whether to transmit a positive response to the second request packet based on additional information included in the second request packet.

Communication device, computer program product, and communication control method for establishing a communication path with another communication device also seeking to establish the communication path

A printing device, to be connected to a network system including network devices sharing image data in a particular format, comprises: a print instruction receiving unit which receives print data containing font information from a network device; a query transmitting unit which transmits a supply query, inquiring whether each network device is capable of supplying a printer font regarding the font information as image data in the particular format, to the network devices; a response receiving unit which receives affirmative responses, indicating that the supply of a printer font regarding the supply query as image data in the particular format is possible, from network devices in response to the supply query; and a printing unit which prints out the print data by use of a printer font held by a network device transmitting the affirmative response as image data in the particular format in response to reception of the affirmative response.

Network system, printing device and program for sharing and handling font data

A telephone device comprises an operating device, a call request receiving device, a first identification information determination device and a first positive response sending device. The call request receiving device may be configured to receive a call request. The first identification information determination device may be configured to determine, on a condition that the call request is received by the call request receiving device in a time between a call preparing operation being started and the call preparing operation being ended on the operating device, whether or not telephone identification information corresponding to the call preparing operation is identical to telephone identification information of the source of the call request. The first positive response sending device may be configured to send the positive response in reply to the call request on a condition that a positive determination is obtained by the first identification information determination device.

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Ichinomiya, Japan

Yasuhiro Kudo