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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2007
Kazuyuki Fukui, Toyohashi, JP;
Mikio Masui, Kobe, JP;
Hiroyuki Ozawa, Kawasaki, JP;
Shuichiro Kaneko, Yokohama, JP;
Norihisa Takayama, Kobe, JP;
Yoshikazu Ikenoue, Itami, JP;
Kazuyuki Fukui, Toyohashi, JP;
Mikio Masui, Kobe, JP;
Hiroyuki Ozawa, Kawasaki, JP;
Shuichiro Kaneko, Yokohama, JP;
Norihisa Takayama, Kobe, JP;
Yoshikazu Ikenoue, Itami, JP;
Konica Minolta Buisiness Technologies, Inc., Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In order to promote reception of transmitted data, an image-processing apparatus is connected to a plurality of image-processing apparatuses through a network and has a designation unit to receive a designation of an arbitrary destination user as a receiver of data; a storing unit to store the data in a storing device so as to enable reading of the data by an operation by the destination user designated by the designation unit; and a control unit to execute a predetermined action with respect to the destination user designated by the designation unit when no reading operation for the data is executed by the destination user after a predetermined elapse of time from storing the data in the storing device.