Patent ID: 8730487
Filing Date: 2014-05-20
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A multifunction device for executing processes according to execution request information, comprising: a reading unit for reading file list information stored in an external memory device; a printing unit for performing a printout on a printing medium upon associating a plurality of pieces of file identification information included in the file list information with printing executable processes information for each file identification information according to file type of the file identified by the file identification information on a one-to-one basis; a medium scanning unit for scanning the printing medium provided with execution request information thereon as image data; a detecting unit for detecting the execution request information from the scanned image data; an executing unit for executing a process corresponding to each of files stored in the external memory device, based on the detected execution request information; and an external memory device writing unit for, after executing processes at the executing unit, writing information identifying a file executed and information identifying the process executed with respect to the files as a stored file in the external memory device, wherein the executing unit executes again the process executed last time with respect to the file executed last time by referring the information in the stored file where the executing unit detects a request for re-executing the process executed last time and where the executing unit detects the stored file in the external memory device.