Patent ID: 7814236

Claim:
A multifunction device comprising: an elemental function executing section that executes a device function; a command storage section in which a first control command for requesting execution of said device function is associated by function with a specific second control command, wherein the specified second control command is a command that the elemental function execution section is operable to receive for executing said device function; a control command converting section that receives the first control command, and outputs the specified second control command to the elemental function executing section for executing the device function; a control instruction receiving section receiving a control instruction from a control device, via a communication network; and a device function controlling section generating, in response to the control instruction supplied to the control instruction receiving section, a first control command used for executing the device function, and sending the generated first control command to the control command converting section; wherein, the control instruction from the control device includes a transmission request of event information indicating a result of an event item which is selected from plural event items including (i) execution of at least one job of copying, scanning, printing, and image transmission, (ii) operation of a button, (iii) login, and (iv) logout, a registration information management section by which an event item and a transmission destination, which are included in the transmission request, are managed in association with one another; and a determining section that determines whether an elemental function corresponding to an event item managed by the registration information management section has been executed by the elemental function executing section, and in a case where the determining section determines that the elemental function corresponding to the event item managed by the registration information management section has been executed, the device function controlling section specifies, in the registration information management section, a transmission destination corresponding to the event item, and generates, as the first control command, an event information transmission command by which the event information indicating a result of the event item is supplied to the specified transmission destination; wherein the device function is achieved by appropriately combining plural elemental functions including a communication function and at least one of an image reading function and an image forming function.