Patent ID: 8494130
Filing Date: 2013-07-23
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A facsimile device capable of sending and receiving facsimile data by utilizing a first communication line, the facsimile device comprising: a user-function storage device configured to store, for each user, an association of user information identifying the user and function information identifying a function that the user is allowed to utilize; an information input device configured to receive input information; a line connecting device that connects the first communication line in a case where first user information is received by the information input device, the first user information being associated with function information including a facsimile sending function and a specific function which is different from the facsimile sending function; a line disconnecting device that disconnects the first communication line in a case where facsimile sending instruction information, which is different from the first user information, is received by the information input device when the first communication line is in a state of having been connected by the line connecting device, the first user information and the facsimile sending instruction information being received by the information input device as a result of a sequence of user operations for sending target facsimile data which is a sending target of a single facsimile transmission; and a facsimile sending device that re-connects the first communication line disconnected by the line disconnecting device, and sends the target facsimile data by utilizing the first communication line in accordance with the facsimile sending instruction information, wherein the information input device is configured to receive utilizing instruction information concerning the specific function, which is different from the first user information, as input information when the first communication line is in the state of having been connected by the line connecting device, and when receiving the utilizing instruction information, the line disconnecting device disconnects the first communication line, and the facsimile sending device does not re-connect the first communication line disconnected by the line disconnecting device.