US 11,736,651 B2
Printer configured to communicate data with device connected thereto
Sho Ogura, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Mar. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/704,136.
Application 17/704,136 is a continuation of application No. 16/885,474, filed on May 28, 2020, granted, now 11,290,616.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-102359 (JP), filed on May 31, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0217248 A1, Jul. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 1/44 (2006.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01); G06F 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/4433 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1222 (2013.01); G06F 3/1238 (2013.01); G06F 21/608 (2013.01); H04N 1/4413 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printer, comprising:
a print engine;
a network interface;
a user interface;
a connection interface configured to connect to a connection device; and
a controller,
wherein the controller is configured to perform
receiving, from one of a web server and the user interface, setting whether to store image data, which is received through the network interface, in the connection device connected to the connection interface,
when receiving the setting to store the image data in the connection device, storing the image data in the connection device connected to the connection interface, and
when not receiving the setting to store the image data in the connection device, communicating data, which is different from the image data received through the network interface, with the connection device connected to the connection interface.