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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2000
Kyoji Saito, Kawasaki, JP;
Kyoji Saito, Kawasaki, JP;
Panasonic Communications Co., Ltd., Fukuoka, JP;
Abstract
A blank determining section performs scanning of a text part of e-mail when receiving e-mail. The scanning of text part is carried out up to a next boundary. After the end of scanning, the blank determining section determines whether or not there is any code other than unprintable codes such as a blank, a tab, a line feed, and the like. Since the text part is composed of only a line feed, the blank determining section clears data of the text part from a mail reception memory area. An image part is normally printed. As a result, the printing of text part is skipped, and only the image part is printed. This makes it possible to prevent a useless output and an output of inconvenient information.