A facsimile apparatus includes a facsimile control unit, a subbox generating unit, and a facsimile managing unit. The facsimile control unit is configured to obtain facsimile image data of a received facsimile. The subbox generating unit is configured to (a) extract receiver information or sender information from the facsimile image data, (b) determine a company name, one or plural belonging group names and a name of a receiver or a sender that are continuously included in the receiver information or the sender information, and (c) hierarchically generate subboxes on the basis of the determined company name, the determined one or plural belonging group names and the determined name. The facsimile managing unit is configured to store the facsimile image data into a subbox of which a name is the same as the determined name in a lowest layer among the subboxes hierarchically generated.

An operating method of a server for providing a cloud service is provided. The operating method includes receiving shared file information from each of a plurality of devices connected to the server, transmitting the shared file information in response to a request from one of the plurality of devices, and, when receiving a request for a shared file included in the shared file information, receiving the shared file from a device in which the shared file is stored and transmitting the shared file to a device that requested the shared file.

Disclosed is an information processing system including one or more computers. The information processing system includes a first acquisition part configured to acquire data that are stored from a terminal apparatus into a predetermined storage via a network from the predetermined storage via the network, a second acquisition part configured to acquire parameter information based on the acquired data, a selector configured to select a data process to be executed, and a process information generator configured to generate process information serving as information for executing the data process based on the acquired data, the acquired parameter information, and the selected data process.

A linkage system includes a facsimile device, an image forming device, and a linkage device through a network. The facsimile device includes a receiver configured to receive a facsimile document through a public line, and a notifying unit configured to transmit reception information about the facsimile document together with a reception event indicating that the facsimile document is received to the linkage device. The linkage device includes a linkage controller configured to transmit a print request to print the facsimile document included in the reception information to the image forming device when the reception event and the reception information are received. The image forming device includes a printing unit configured to print the facsimile document based on the print request.

A computer system maps unique addresses to the conventional fax numbers of conventional fax devices (such as conventional fax machines and computing devices having conventional fax capabilities). A transmitting user who is connected to the Internet may send an IP fax to a receiving user who is also connected to the Internet by addressing the receiving user using the receiving user's unique address, even if the sending user and receiving user are not within the same local network. A server outside of the receiving user's local network mediates the transmission of the IP fax from the transmitting user to the receiving user. The server may select a preferred transmission method of the recipient (e.g., conventional fax, IP fax, email, or secure document delivery) and transmit the fax to the receiving user using that preferred transmission method. Transmitted faxes may be in color and/or contain high-definition content.

A system includes an output unit that outputs document data transmitted from a sender, a recipient information creating unit that creates recipient information related to a recipient who outputs the document data using the output unit, after the document data is output by the output unit, and a transmitting unit that transmits the recipient information to the sender.

A processing apparatus includes a storage unit, a processor, and a screen display. The storage unit stores data input to an input unit in a memory area associated with the input unit. The processor executes a process associated with the memory area on the data stored in the memory area. The screen display displays a settings screen on which a first screen component and a second screen component are displayed in list form. The first screen component is a screen component for selecting an input unit to be associated with a memory area. The second screen component is a screen component for configuring a setting for a process to be associated with the memory area.

This disclosure is directed to systems and methods for the delivery and maintenance of faxes where the faxes may remain at a faxing system for a minimal amount of time. The faxing system may send a queued fax to a connector responsive to a request from the connector to pull or retrieve a fax. The connector is configured to send a release notification to the faxing system after the fax is received. The faxing system is configured to delete the queued fax as soon as confirmation of the delivery of the fax can be determined or when an expiration time has elapsed.

An information providing device is capable of communicating with an image forming device, a data managing device, and a transmission terminal. The information providing device includes a storage unit; a communication unit that transmits a forming instruction to instruct the image forming device to perform image forming, and receives, from the image forming device, storage location information indicating the data managing device that stores data obtained by image forming by the image forming device and indicating a storage location in the data managing device; and a storage location managing unit that generates, in the storage unit, management information in which identification information of the image data is associated with the storage location information. The communication unit receives the data saved in the storage location indicated by the storage location information from the data managing device and transmits the received data to the transmission terminal.

An information providing device is capable of communicating with an image forming device, a data managing device, and a transmission terminal. The information providing device includes a storage unit; a communication unit that transmits a forming instruction to instruct the image forming device to perform image forming, and receives, from the image forming device, storage location information indicating the data managing device that stores data obtained by image forming by the image forming device and indicating a storage location in the data managing device; and a storage location managing unit that generates, in the storage unit, management information in which identification information of the image data is associated with the storage location information. The communication unit receives the data saved in the storage location indicated by the storage location information from the data managing device and transmits the received data to the transmission terminal.