US 7,548,336 B2
Internet facsimile apparatus and e-mail receiving method
Kyoji Saito, Kawasaki (Japan)
Assigned to Panasonic Communications Co., Ltd., Fukuoka (Japan)
Filed on Nov. 29, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/288,348.
Application 11/288348 is a continuation of application No. 09/611365, filed on Jul. 06, 2000, granted, now 6,982,801.
Claims priority of application No. 11-368837 (JP), filed on Dec. 27, 1999.
Prior Publication US 2006/0077462 A1, Apr. 13, 2006
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01); H04N 1/387 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 358—1.15  [358/402; 358/452] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An Internet facsimile apparatus, comprising:
an interface configured to receive e-mail;
a printer configured to print the received e-mail;
a data pattern analyzer configured to analyze a header portion of the received e-mail to determine whether the received e-mail is a multipart structure, and to determine whether the received e-mail includes a text part when it is determined that the received e-mail is the multipart structure; and
a text processor configured to determine whether the text part includes a predetermined pair of codes when it is determined that the received e-mail includes the text part, all character data included between the predetermined pair of codes being replaced with a blank code when it is determined that the text part includes the predetermined pair of codes, so that the all character data replaced by the blank code is not printed by the printer, wherein the predetermined pair of codes comprise unprintable codes.