Patent ID: 8260853
Filing Date: 2012-09-04
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A document distribution system using a World Wide Web Distributed Authorizing and Versioning (WebDAV) protocol, comprising: a WebDAV server; and a scanner-embedded apparatus having a scanner coupled to the WebDAV server via a network, the scanner-embedded apparatus configured to scan a document and transmit the scanned document to the WebDAV server using the WebDAV protocol, the scanner-embedded apparatus including; a user interface generated within the scanner-embedded apparatus, the user interface operable to provide a dialog box including a first user input field to enable a user to designate a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of the WebDAV server and a second user input field to enable the user to designate a directory of the WebDAV server so as to specify a document storing location within the WebDAV server to which a scanned document is to be transmitted, wherein the scanner-embedded apparatus having the scanner transmits the scanned document scanned by the scanner-embedded apparatus directly from the scanner-embedded apparatus to the designated directory of the WebDAV server as designated via the user interface of the scanner-embedded apparatus, wherein the first user input field and the second user input field for designating the URL of the WebDAV server and the directory of the WebDAV server to which the scanned document is to be transmitted are separately provided within the same dialog box that is provided by the user interface generated within the scanner-embedded apparatus without connecting to the WebDAV server, and wherein the scanner-embedded apparatus is capable of directly transmitting the scanned document to the designated directory of the WebDAV server according to a user input received via the user interface within the scanner-embedded apparatus.