Patent ID: 7440125
Filing Date: 2008-10-21
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A transmitter connectable with a network, the transmitter comprising: a storage portion storing setting-information; an instruction receiving portion capable of receiving a setting-change instruction indicative of a setting-change; an instruction-group specifying portion specifying, as an instruction group, at least one successive setting-change instruction that includes instructions for a plurality of setting-changes, which is received by the instruction receiving portion successively and which is indicative of at least one setting-change; a setting-information updating portion successively updating the setting information in the storage portion based on the at least one successive setting-change in the instruction group, to thereby obtain final setting-information; and a transmission portion transmitting, via a network to a receiver, a set of final- setting-data indicative of the final setting-information only after the final setting-information is obtained without transmitting setting-information after each of the plurality of setting-changes, wherein the transmission portion includes: a final-setting-data creating portion creating the set of final-setting-data based on the final setting-information; a first notifying portion notifying the receiver when the final-setting-data creating portion creates the set of final-setting-data; a request receiving portion receiving a request from the receiver; and an upon-request transmitting portion transmitting, upon receipt of the request, the set of final-setting-data via the network to the receiver, the transmitter further comprising: an interface portion connectable to the network; and a second notifying portion notifying the receiver that the interface portion is disconnected from the network after the instruction-group specifying portion receives one setting-change instruction, whose corresponding setting-change will influence the set of final-setting-data to be created by the final-setting-data creating portion and which is received first after the first notifying portion executes notification, wherein the first notifying portion notifies, when the final-setting-data creating portion creates the set of final-setting-data, the receiver that the interface portion is brought back into connection with the network.