Patent ID: 9083827
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A relay device comprising: a receiver that receives a plurality of facsimile transmission instructions via a private network from a client device that does not include facsimile transmitting functions; a facsimile communication unit that sequentially transmits facsimiles externally via a public network, on the basis of the plurality of facsimile transmission instructions received by the receiver; a creator that, in response to satisfaction of a predetermined condition, creates partial communication result information regarding a transmission status of only the facsimiles which the facsimile communication unit has attempted to transmit from among the plurality of facsimile instructions, before the facsimile communication unit completes facsimile transmission over the public network for all of the plurality of facsimile transmission instructions; and a transmitter that transmits, for each facsimile transmission instruction, the partial communication result information created by the creator to the client device from which the receiver received facsimile transmission instructions, the communication result information being transmitted before communication result information of a next facsimile of the sequentially transmitted plurality of facsimile transmission instructions is generated.