Patent ID: 6493107
Filing Date: 2002-12-10
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
An electronic mail apparatus comprising:an operation panel configured to designate an electronic mail destination; an acceptor that accepts image data; a converter that converts the image data into an electronic mail format; an electronic mail transmitter that transmits the image data converted into electronic mail format to a designated electronic mail destination via a network; an electronic mail receiver that is configured to receive the electronic mail comprising at least one of text data and image data from a sender via the network; a detector that detects a specific character code sequence from the received electronic mail; an analyzer that analyzes whether or not the specific character code sequence designates image data or text data and that further analyzes, when the electronic mail is determined to be text data, whether or not the text data of the electronic mail includes a command code and information for executing the command code associated with the command code; and a command executer that executes the command code associated with the specific character code sequence when the detector detects the specific character code sequence and when the text data is determined, by the analyzer, to include the command code.