Patent ID: 6961143
Filing Date: 2005-11-01
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An Internet facsimile apparatus connected to a server apparatus, the Internet facsimile apparatus comprising: a network connector configured to receive an e-mail to which a plurality of data files are attached; a memory configured to store data; a printer configured to print data; and a controller configured to store the plurality of data files in the memory, to provide a predetermined message ID to each of the plurality of the data files attached to the e-mail, to determine whether the plurality of data files include an unprintable data file which the printer can not print, to transmit, to the server apparatus, the unprintable data file including the predetermined message ID, the server apparatus converting the unprintable data file into a printable data file which the printer can print, to receive, from the server apparatus, the converted printable data file including the predetermined message ID, and to control the printer to print the plurality of the data files corresponding to the predetermined message ID when all of the plurality of the data files corresponding to the predetermined message ID are printable.