US 12,143,548 B2
Terminal device for sending reply message showing that communication device received image, system having the terminal device, and control methods thereof
Sho Kamihisa, Sakai (JP)
Assigned to SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai (JP)
Filed by SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai (JP)
Filed on Feb. 10, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/108,039.
Application 18/108,039 is a continuation of application No. 17/561,163, filed on Dec. 23, 2021, granted, now 11,616,893.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-001099 (JP), filed on Jan. 6, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0199131 A1, Jun. 22, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04N 1/32 (2006.01); H04L 51/02 (2022.01); H04L 51/08 (2022.01)
CPC H04N 1/32128 (2013.01) [H04L 51/02 (2013.01); H04L 51/08 (2013.01); H04N 2201/3214 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A first terminal device, comprising:
a communicator capable of communicating with a server device which provides a service enabling message exchanging among a plurality of terminal devices including the first terminal device and a second terminal device;
a controller; and
a display,
wherein when the communicator receives a first image from a server, the controller displays, on the display:
a received message showing that the first image is received by a first communication system,
the first image,
an inquiry message inquiring whether to send a reply message responding to the reception of the first image by a second communication system other than the first communication system, and
an input section for instructing of a transmission of the reply message by the second communication system,
the first communication system is a communication system between a first communication device as a transmission destination of the first image and a second communication device as a transmission source of the first image,
the second communication system is a communication system between the first terminal device related to the first communication device and the second terminal device related to the second communication device, and
when instructions are input to the input section, the controller sends, to the server device, an instruction for sending the reply message by using the second communication system.