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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2003
Tsutomu Taniguchi, Nara, JP;
Makoto Nakabayashi, Nara, JP;
Takeshi Nakamura, Tenri, JP;
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
In a communications device, a terminal machine transmits/receives data over a network and makes a request for a response to a data transmission from a receiving-end machine. In the terminal machine, an e-mail message identifying unit determines whether data to be received over the network is response data to the response request, and a main control unit controls so as to preferentially receive data identified as the response data by the e-mail message identifying unit over other data. Thus, if an e-mail message is transmitted with a request for a disposition verification, a reply message to the disposition verification request can be quickly received from the receiving-end machine.