A facsimile machine and a self-diagnosis method performed by a facsimile machine are provided. The facsimile machine receives a self-diagnosis execution command, performs self-diagnosis according to the self-diagnosis execution command, and outputs a self-diagnosis result report.

An image transmission method and a system thereof and an image transmission apparatus are provided. The method includes: determining an estimated distortion area of at least one first image; zooming out the first image to generate a second image according to the estimated distortion area; adding the estimated distortion area around the second image to generate a transmission image and filling a transmission pattern in the estimated distortion area of the transmission image, wherein a resolution of the transmission image is equal to that of the first image; and transmitting the transmission image through at least one channel.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer readable instructions that are executable by a computer in an operating terminal is provided. The computer readable instructions, when executed by the computer, cause the computer to designate an information processing apparatus to transmit apparatus information to a server, and based on the designation of the information processing apparatus, transmit a setting command to the designated information processing apparatus through a communication interface. The setting command commands the information processing apparatus to shift to one of a condition for transmitting the apparatus information to the server and a condition for not transmitting the apparatus information to the server.

A method for determining the quality of a media stream of a computer network including: receiving a packet from a traffic flow; determining whether the packet relates to a media stream; if the packet is related to the media stream, simulating a content player buffer related to the media stream; reviewing further data chunks associated with the media stream to determine quality events affecting the media stream; analyzing the effect of the quality event on a subscriber viewing the quality event; and determining a Quality of Experience score related to the media stream; otherwise allowing the packet to continue to the subscriber without further analysis. A system for determining the quality of a media stream, the system including modules configured to carry out the method for determining the quality of the media stream.

An information processing apparatus includes a user interface, a communication interface, and a controller configured to, in response to receiving via the user interface an instruction to transmit an error notification, refer to one or more error records registered in error history data stored in a memory, each error record representing an error caused in the information processing apparatus, determine whether the one or more error records referred to include at least one error record associated with a previously selected error type, and in response to determining that the one or more error records referred to include the at least one error record associated with the previously selected error type, transmit the error notification to an external device via the communication interface.

The present invention provides an information processing apparatus capable of mounting an optional hardware. The information processing apparatus comprises a processor, an image processing circuit and a socket to which the optional hardware is to be mounted, wherein the optional hardware being connected to the socket communicates with the image processing circuit. The processor transmits a predetermined packet to the optional hardware mounted to the socket, receive a response packet to the predetermined packet from the image processing circuit, determines whether or not the received response packet is an expected response packet, and controls supplying power to the optional hardware in accordance with a determination result of the received response packet.

The present invention provides systems and methods for the virtualization, aggregation, and distributed processing of facsimile communications. The Remote FAX Interconnect known as etherFAX is a system and method that allows for the reception and delivery of information based on cloud computing infrastructure to or from one or more facsimile systems using Internet/web based communication protocols such as HTTP(S) as the transport between a facsimile capable application or hardware and the remotely accessible etherFAX services.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer readable instructions that are executable by a computer in an operating terminal is provided. The computer readable instructions, when executed by the computer, cause the computer to designate an information processing apparatus to transmit apparatus information to a server, and based on the designation of the information processing apparatus, transmit a setting command to the designated information processing apparatus through a communication interface. The setting command commands the information processing apparatus to shift to one of a condition for transmitting the apparatus information to the server and a condition for not transmitting the apparatus information to the server.

A information processing apparatus capable of avoiding deadlock between transmission and reception operations of data. A transmission section transmits a data block including a predetermined amount of data and a sequence number. A reception section receives the data block. A packet inspection controller of the reception section determines whether the received data block is correct or wrong, based on a result of detection of an error in the data and a result of comparison between an expected value of the sequence number and a value of the sequence number included in the data block. The expected value of the sequence number is changed to a next value when it is determined that the data block is wrong a predetermined number of times.

A reservation scan control unit of an MFP including a storage device and a scanner unit has a confirmation unit that confirms whether or not a file including an image generated by scan processing executed by the scanner unit can be transmitted to a transmission destination specified by a client terminal, a notification unit that provides a notification about a confirmation result to the client terminal in response to a confirmation that transmission to a transmission destination is not possible, which is a confirmation result, and a storage unit that stores a job including a setting of the scan processing and the transmission destination of a file including an image generated by the scan processing in the storage device, and the reservation scan control unit provides a notification about identification information corresponding to the job to the client terminal based on a confirmation that transmission to the transmission destination is possible, which is a confirmation result.