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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2008
Filed:
May. 14, 2003
Applicants:
Tetsuya Shibata, Yawata, JP;
Takeshi Nakamura, Tenri, JP;
Inventors:
Tetsuya Shibata, Yawata, JP;
Takeshi Nakamura, Tenri, JP;
Assignee:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04B 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A network communication device measures an elapsed time from the transmission of facsimile data prepared by an e-mail message composing section to the reception of a delivery verification response by a clock section. In accordance with the measurement, a time managing section changes a waiting time by which an occurrence of a timeout error is determined to, for example, a mean value or a maximum value. This sets the waiting time to an optimal value suitable to a network environment, for example.