Facsimile Notification Control with Sender-Specific Conditions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing facsimile systems automatically notify users of received facsimile communication information without user consent, leading to inconvenient and wasteful processes.
Innovation Solution
A facsimile system with receiving, notifying, storing, and controlling means that only notifies a user when predetermined notification conditions are met, such as specific sender information, time, or number of receptions, allowing users to customize notification settings and prevent unnecessary processes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the facsimile apparatus always notifies receipt of image data, then the user is informed of reception, but unnecessary notification processes are executed and user convenience deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by differentiating notification behavior based on sender identity. Instead of uniform notification for all received faxes, the system stores notify party information associated with specific sender information in a storage unit, and only notifies when the sender matches stored entries. This selective approach ensures reliable notification for important senders while avoiding unnecessary notifications from others, thus resolving the contradiction between notification reliability and user convenience.
2Loss of information
If the facsimile apparatus executes notification process for every received image data, then all receptions are tracked, but waste of processes increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the notification function from the universal reception handling process. By introducing a storage unit that pre-stores notify party information for specific senders, the system separates necessary notifications (for registered senders) from unnecessary ones (for unregistered senders). The control unit checks sender information against stored data before executing notification, thereby eliminating wasteful processes while maintaining complete tracking of all receptions through the sender information storage mechanism.
3Device complexity
If the facsimile system notifies all senders equally, then simplicity is maintained, but adaptability to different user needs decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamics by making the notification system adaptable rather than static. The storage unit dynamically stores notify party information associated with specific sender information, allowing the system to adjust its behavior based on the sender's identity. This dynamic association enables the system to provide customized notification behavior for different senders while maintaining a relatively simple overall structure, thus resolving the contradiction between system simplicity and notification customization capability.
Data Source
AI summary
A main controlling portion controls each portion of a facsimile system, and when a communication controlling portion receives facsimile communication information from a sender indicated by predetermined sender information stored in a storing portion, causes a LAN controlling portion to notify a notify party indicated by notify party information associated with the received sender information of notification information only when determining that a predetermined notification condition is satisfied. It is possible to notify of the notification information only when the predetermined notification condition desired by a user is satisfied, and it is possible to increase convenience. Moreover, consequently, the facsimile system does not execute an operation process of notifying of the notification information when the predetermined condition is not satisfied, so that it is possible to prevent a wasteful operation process.