Patent ID: 9568979
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,Y02D

Claim:
1. A communication device as a second communication device for communicating with a first communication device via an electric communication line, the first communication device having a power supply unit configured to generate an electric power, a facsimile communication unit configured to conduct facsimile communication with the second communication device, a plurality of operating units configured to receive the electric power generated by the power supply unit and operate, the plurality of operating units including the facsimile communication unit, and a main control unit configured to control the plurality of operating units, the main control unit including a central processing unit, a non-volatile memory, and a random access memory, wherein the main control unit operates as an energy-saving control unit configured to alternatively run a normal mode or an energy saving mode, the normal mode supplying the electric power to all of the plurality of operating units, the energy saving mode supplying the electric power to a predetermined part of the plurality of operating units and suspending another part of the plurality of operating units into a sleep state where the electric power is cut off, an instruction receiver configured to receive a selection instruction for selecting the operating unit that processes target data from the second device, and a wake-up unit configured to supply the electric power to the operating unit instructed by the selection instruction so as to wake up the operating unit instructed by the selection instruction from the sleep state upon receiving the selection instruction during the energy saving mode if the operating unit instructed by the selection instruction is in the sleep state, wherein the wake-up unit is configured not to execute the wake-up process and to reply communication information indicating a wake-up time to the second communication device if the instruction receiver receives the selection instruction during a reception inhibit period, the reception inhibit period inhibiting the waking up of the operating unit instructed by the selection instruction from the sleep state, the wake-up time being a time at which the operating unit instructed by the selection instruction can be woken up from the sleep state, wherein the instruction receiver receives the selection instruction again from the second communication device after the wake-up time, and wherein the facsimile communication unit receives the target data from the second communication device after the instruction receiver receives the selection instruction, the second communication device comprising: an execution instruction transmitter configured to transmit a function execution instruction for making the first communication device execute a function and the target data to be processed by the function to the first communication device; a selection instruction transmitter configured to transmit the selection instruction for selecting the operating unit required to operate at the time of running the function to the first communication device before the execution instruction transmitter transmits the execution instruction and the target data to the first communication device; and a communication control unit configured to communicate with the first communication device and receives the communication information indicating a wake-up time, wherein the selection instruction transmitter is configured to transmit the selection instruction again to the first communication device after the wake-up time when the communication control unit receives the communication information.