Patent ID: 8149436
Filing Date: 2012-04-03
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A communication apparatus connected to a terminal apparatus via a network, the communication apparatus comprising: a storage that stores a received document file and an HTML file of a user setting page; a file manager that stores a storage period for the received document file, determines whether or not the received document file has been stored in the storage for the storage period, and deletes the document file when the document file is determined to have been stored in the storage for the storage period, the storage period of a document file starting when the document file is received at the communication apparatus, such that a received document file is not deleted before the storage period of the received document file exceeds the stored storage period, the storage period being independent of an operation performed on the received document file by the communication apparatus; and a web server that transmits, to the terminal apparatus, the HTML file of the user setting page, the transmitted user setting page configured to be displayed at the terminal apparatus so that a user at the terminal apparatus can request a change of the storage period, and instructs the file manager to change the storage period, when the user at the terminal apparatus requests the change of the storage period, the user setting page identifying a plurality of document types together with a plurality of defined storage periods for each document type and being configured such that a user can select one of the plurality of defined storage periods or a user defined storage period for each document type.