Email File Division with Recipient Reassembly Tool
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Solution Overview
Problem
Communication devices struggle to transmit files exceeding the predetermined upper limit of transmittable file capacity by email, often resulting in files being divided into unwanted page counts, which invalidates the user's specified page count settings.
Innovation Solution
A communication device and method that includes a transmission file setter, page setter, communicator, and controller to divide files into multiple parts within the capacity limit, transmitting each part with a combining configuration file and tool, allowing recipients to reassemble the file to the desired page count set by the user.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the file is divided into multiple parts to fit the capacity limit, then the file can be transmitted successfully, but the page count specified by the user becomes invalid
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the original file into multiple divided files to fit the email capacity limit, while maintaining the ability to reconstruct the original page count. The controller divides the transmission file into divided transmission files and transmits them separately, ensuring each fits within the capacity constraint while preserving the overall document structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary actions by transmitting a combining configuration file and combining tool along with the divided files. This allows the recipient to reconstruct the original file with the correct page count before actual use, ensuring the page count specification is met while still dividing the transmission for capacity compliance.
2Quantity of substance
If the upper limit of file capacity is prioritized, then the file can be transmitted within the limit, but the user's specified page count setting becomes invalid
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a combining configuration file and combining tool as intermediaries between the divided files and the final reconstructed file. These intermediaries contain the necessary information to reassemble the divided files in the correct order and format, ensuring both capacity compliance and user-specified page count requirements are met.
3Manufacturing precision
If the transmission is performed by page count, then the user's page count setting is maintained, but the file exceeds the transmittable capacity limit
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the file transmission process into multiple parts, where the original file is divided into smaller divided files that each fit within the capacity limit. The segmentation is performed in a way that preserves the page count structure, allowing reconstruction of the original document with the correct number of pages.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs the division and transmission of multiple files as a preliminary action, followed by a reconstruction step. The combining configuration file and tool are prepared in advance to enable the recipient to reassemble the divided files into the original page count structure, ensuring both capacity compliance and page count accuracy.
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AI summary
A communication device including: a transmission file setter which sets an upper limit value of a capacity of a file transmittable by e-mail; a transmission page setter which sets a page count of a transmission file; a communicator which divides, when the transmission file including multiple pages exceeds the upper limit value, the transmission file into multiple divided transmission files, and transmits the divided transmission files; a transmission setter which receives a combining configuration file for combining the divided transmission files, and the setting of a combining tool; and a controller which controls the transmission file setter, the transmission page setter, and the communicator. When the communicator transmits the plurality of divided transmission files, the controller causes the communicator to also transmit the combining configuration file and the combining tool for creating a file of the page count, in accordance with the setting of the transmission setter.