Patent ID: 9137392
Filing Date: 2015-09-15
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A facsimile device comprising: a facsimile data reception section receiving facsimile data from a different facsimile device; a storage section storing the facsimile data received by the facsimile data reception section; a job management section performing fax job management for the stored facsimile data; a transfer instruction reception section receiving, from a user, a transfer instruction for transferring the facsimile data managed by the job management section to a different device; a password creation section creating a password in correspondence with facsimile data targeted for transfer when the transfer instruction reception section has received the transfer instruction; a data transfer section transferring, to the different device, transfer data including the password created by the password creation section and the facsimile data targeted for the transfer; a data conversion section converting the transfer data into a predefined standard data format; an advisability detection section detecting whether or not the device indicated by the transfer instruction is an image forming apparatus capable of image forming in the standard data format; a delete instruction reception section receiving, from the user, a delete instruction by specification of a fax job targeted for deletion and password inputting; when the delete instruction reception section has received the delete instruction, the job management section compares a password indicated by the delete instruction with the password created in correspondence with the facsimile data of the fax job targeted for the deletion by the delete instruction, and deletes the fax job indicated by the delete instruction under condition that the passwords agree with each other; wherein, when the advisability detection section has determined that the device indicated by the transfer instruction is the image forming apparatus capable of image forming in the standard data format, the data transfer section further performs transfer of the transfer data to the image forming apparatus in the standard data format, and when the advisability detection section has determined that the device is the image forming apparatus not capable of image forming in the standard data format, the data transfer section transmits the transfer data targeted for the transfer by the transfer instruction to a predefined server on the Internet, and transmits, from the server to the device indicated by the transfer instruction, the transfer data converted into a data format permitting the image forming by the device indicated by the transfer instruction on the server.