Communication Apparatus Consolidating Processing Records for Multi-Destination Verification

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing communication systems with multi-send features face difficulties in efficiently managing and verifying data transmission to multiple destinations, as processing records differ across destinations, making it cumbersome for users to confirm that data has been sent to all specified locations.

Innovation Solution

A communication apparatus with a data sender and a processing record sender that sequentially sends data to multiple destinations and synchronizes processing records across all destinations, ensuring that each destination receives a processing record from the next, allowing for centralized verification of data transmission status.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If processing records are sent to each destination individually with different contents, then each destination receives its specific processing record, but it becomes difficult for users to verify whether data has been sent to all destinations

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata transmission verificationVSAvoidprocessing record checking

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges processing records from multiple destinations into a single consolidated processing record. The communication apparatus collects processing records from all destinations and combines them into one unified record that contains information about all destinations, allowing users to verify data transmission to all destinations by checking a single record instead of accessing multiple individual records at different locations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The communication apparatus acts as an intermediary between the scanner and multiple destinations. It receives processing records from all destinations, consolidates them, and then provides a unified processing record to the user through the communication terminal. This intermediary function simplifies the verification process by mediating between the distributed destinations and the user.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Loss of information

If the scanner sends processing records to multiple destinations, then each destination receives its processing record, but the user must access each destination individually to check the records

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprocessing record informationVSAvoidtime to check all processing records

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The communication apparatus performs preliminary consolidation of processing records before the user needs to check them. It collects and merges processing records from all destinations in advance, so that when the user accesses the communication terminal, all processing record information is already consolidated and ready for single-point verification, eliminating the need for the user to sequentially access multiple destinations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent combines multiple individual processing records into a single consolidated processing record that contains information about all destinations. This merging allows the user to retrieve and verify all processing information through a single access point (the communication terminal) rather than accessing multiple separate destinations individually.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Adaptability or versatility

If different processing record contents are sent to different destinations, then each destination receives relevant information, but centralized verification of transmission status becomes difficult

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedestination-specific processing record contentVSAvoidprocessing record management system

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The communication apparatus provides a universal interface for processing record verification that works across all destinations. While individual destinations may have different processing record contents, the communication apparatus creates a unified processing record structure that consolidates information from all destinations, allowing the user to verify transmission status through a single universal access point regardless of the underlying destination-specific variations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS10212305B2Communication apparatus and method and non-transitory computer readable medium for sending processing records to multiple destinations

Publication Date: 2019.02.19 FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP

AI summary

A communication apparatus includes a data sender and a processing record sender. The data sender sequentially sends data to m destinations, where m is an integer of two or greater. The processing record sender sends a processing record concerning the data sent to the first destination through a processing record concerning the data sent to the n-th destination to the n-th destination when the data sender sends the data to the n-th destination, where n is an integer of 1 to m. The processing record sender sends the processing record concerning the data sent to the first destination through a processing record concerning the data sent to the m-th destination to the first through (m−1)-th destinations when the data sender sends the data to the m-th destination.