Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multifunction peripheral
- Patent Title (中): 多功能外设
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Application No.: US12055309Application Date: 2008-03-25
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Publication No.: US08156268B2Publication Date: 2012-04-10
- Inventor: Fumitoshi Uno
- Applicant: Fumitoshi Uno
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
- Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
- Agency: Baker Botts L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2007-084773 20070328
- Main IPC: G06F13/12
- IPC: G06F13/12 ; G06F13/38

Abstract:
A multifunction device has a plurality of functions and capable of being connected to a computer via a universal serial bus (USB) interface, the computer having an operating system (OS) installed thereon that recognizes the multifunction device as a device having at least one logic unit capable of transferring data according to a USB-compliant system, at least one of the at least one logic unit being a compound logic unit corresponding to two or more specific functions among the plurality of functions. The multifunction device includes: a controlling unit that, when the computer has transferred output data with an actual data section to the compound logic unit, determines which one of the two or more specific functions the transferred output data is for controlling, based on unique standard data included in the actual data section, and that controls the determined function based on the output data, the controlling unit storing unique standard data in an actual data section of input data to be transferred to the computer as a result of controlling the function, the unique standard data indicating from which one of the two or more specific functions the input data is to be transferred, and transferring the input data to the computer as data from the compound logic unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080239358A1 MULTIFUNCTION PERIPHERAL Public/Granted day:2008-10-02
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