Patent ID: 6657743
Filing Date: 2003-12-02
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
A communication terminal, comprising:facsimile receiving means for receiving facsimile data encoded in G3 format via a public line network; Internet receiving means, different from the facsimile receiving means, for receiving an electronic mail based on TIFF data via the Internet, the TIFF data being encoded in tag image file format (TIFF); determining means for determining whether the received data is the facsimile data received by the facsimile receiving means or the electronic mail received by the Internet receiving means; converting means for converting the TIFF data received by the Internet receiving means to G3 data when the determining means determines the received data is the electronic mail based on the TIFF data, the G3 data being encoded in G3 format; a buffer for directly accumulating both the facsimile data received by the facsimile receiving means, and the converted G3 data from the TIFF data by the converting means according to each route that the facsimile data and the converted G3 data were received; decoding means for reading the G3 data from the buffer and decoding the G3 data into image data; and printing means for printing the image data decoded by the decoding means onto a printing medium.