Patent ID: 9329665
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: G06F,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A communication apparatus capable of communicating with a mail server and having a normal active mode and a power-saving mode that is lower in power consumption than the active mode, the communication apparatus comprising: an email-information acquisition unit configured to acquire information on a file that is attached to an email, received by the mail server, from the mail server in the power-saving mode; a judgment unit configured to perform a judgment of the attached file is processable, on the basis of the information on the attached file acquired by the email-information acquisition unit; a power-saving mode cancelling unit configured to carry out a transition from the power-saving mode to the active mode when the judgment unit judges that the attached file is processable; and an email acquisition unit configured to acquire an email, received by the mail server, from the mail server in the active mode, wherein the email-information acquisition unit is configured to send a sender of the email a reply mail informing that the email is of a file format not supported by the process unit when the judgment unit judges that the email is not processable by the communication apparatus.