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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2008
Takao Kato, Nagoya, JP;
Naoki Tanjima, Nisshin, JP;
Takao Kato, Nagoya, JP;
Naoki Tanjima, Nisshin, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya-Shi, Aichi-Ken, JP;
Abstract
In a printer, when a file is received from a personal computer connected by way of a USB port, an ordinary storage region in a FLASH ROM is recognized as a removable drive by the personal computer, which disables the writing management by a management table for managing the writing operation into the ordinary storage region in the FLASH ROM by USB standard, the received file is stored in a temporary storage region in a RAM, the attribute of the received file is determined, and when the received file is a printing file, the received file is transferred from the temporary storage region in the RAM, and written into a position in a printing memory layout region in the FLASH ROM obtained by referring to an address table.