System and method for forwarding a file

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2018262554-A1
Application number	US-201815978748-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	May 14, 2018
Priority date	Mar 13, 2014
Publication date	Sep 13, 2018
Grant date	—

Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided. Some embodiments include, after receiving at least a portion of a file at a computing system, obtaining information about the file at a first time. First information is stored in a data structure, the first information comprising information that identifies the file and the information about the file at the first time. Then, information about the file at a second time after the first time is obtained. Second information is stored in a memory of the computing system, the second information comprising information that identifies the file and the information about the file at the second time. It is determined whether the second information matches the first information. In response to determining that the second information matches the first information, the file is sent from the computing system to a predetermined destination. In some embodiments, the file comprises a facsimile communication.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method comprising:
after receiving at a computing system and writing to one or more memories on the computing system data of a file, obtaining information indicating a size of the file at a first time based on an amount of the data of the file that have been written to the one or more memories on the computing system as of the first time; obtaining information indicating a size of the file at a second time based on an amount of data of the file that have been written to the one or more memories on the computing system as of the second time, the second time after the first time; determining that the information indicating the size of the file at the second time does not match the information indicating the size of the file at the first time; obtaining information indicating a size of the file at a third time based on an amount of data of the file that have been written to the one or more memories on the computing system as of the third time, the third time after the second time; determining whether the information indicating the size of the file at the third time matches the information indicating the size of the file at the second time by comparing the information indicating the size of the file at the third time with the information indicating the size of the file at the second time; and in response to determining that the information indicating the size of the file at the third time matches the information indicating the size of the file at the second time, sending, from the computing system to a destination, the file.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the data of the file that have been written to the one or more memories on the computing system as of the first time comprise a first portion of the file, and
wherein, after the first time, the computing system receives a second portion of the file different from the first portion of the file.

3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the data of the file that have been written to the one or more memories on the computing system as of the second time comprise the first portion of the file and the second portion of the file.

4 . The method of claim 2 , wherein sending the file comprises sending, from the computing system to the destination, all of the file including at least the first portion of the file and the second portion of the file.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the information indicating the size of the file at the first time includes information indicating a first file size, and
wherein the information indicating the size of the file at the second time includes information indicating a second file size greater than the first file size.

6 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining that a lapse of a predetermined amount of time since the first time has occurred, wherein the obtaining information indicating the size of the file at the second time is performed in response to the determining that the lapse of the predetermined amount of time since the first time has occurred.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein determining that the information indicating the size of the file at the third time matches the information indicating the size of the file at the second time includes determining that a file size of the file at the third time is the same as a file size of the file at the second time.

8 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
before sending the file to the destination from the computing system, identifying the destination to which the file is to be sent.

9 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the file comprises a facsimile communication.

10 . A computer-readable medium storing executable instructions, which when executed by a computing system with one or more processors, cause the computing system to:
after receiving at the computing system and writing to one or more memories on the computing system data of a file, obtain information indicating a size of the file at a first time based on an amount of the data of the file that have been written to the one or more memories on the computing system as of the first time; obtain information indicating a size of the file at a second time based on an amount of data of the file that have been written to the one or more memories on the computing system as of the second time, the second time after the first time; determine that the information indicating the size of the file at the second time does not match the information indicating the size of the file at the first time; obtain information indicating a size of the file at a third time based on an amount of data of the file that have been written to the one or more memories on the computing system as of the third time, the third time after the second time; determine whether the information indicating the size of the file at the third time matches the information indicating the size of the file at the second time by comparing the information indicating the size of the file at the third time with the information indicating the size of the file at the second time; and in response to determining that the information indicating the size of the file at the third time matches the information indicating the size of the file at the second time, send, from the computing system to a destination, the file.

11 . A system comprising:
one or more processors; and one or more memories storing executable instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause a computing system to:
after receiving at the computing system and writing to the one or more memories on the computing system data of a file, obtain information indicating a size of the file at a first time based on an amount of the data of the file that have been written to the one or more memories on the computing system as of the first time;
obtain information indicating a size of the file at a second time based on an amount of data of the file that have been written to the one or more memories on the computing system as of the second time, the second time after the first time;
determine that the information indicating the size of the file at the second time does not match the information indicating the size of the file at the first time;
obtain information indicating a size of the file at a third time based on an amount of data of the file that have been written to the one or more memories on the computing system as of the third time, the third time after the second time;
determine whether the information indicating the size of the file at the third time matches the information indicating the size of the file at the second time by comparing the information indicating the size of the file at the third time with the information indicating the size of the file at the second time; and
in response to determining that the information indicating the size of the file at the third time matches the information indicating the size of the file at the second time, send, from the computing system to a destination, the file.

12 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the data of the file that have been written to the one or more memories on the computing system as of the first time comprise a first portion of the file, and
wherein, after the first time, the computing system receives a second portion of the file different from the first portion of the file.

13 . The system of claim 12 , wherein the data of the file that have been written to the one or more memories on the computing system as of the second time comprise the first portion of the file and the second portion of the file.

14 . The system of claim 12 , wherein the file sent to the destinat

Assignees

• Canon Information & Imaging Solutions Inc
• Canon Usa Inc

Inventors

• Ge Jiuyuan
• Leung Lance Yiuchong

Classifications

• H04L67/10

  in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46) · CPC title

• H04L67/06 Primary

  specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP] · CPC title

• H04L29/1216

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L29/08

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L51/36

  Electricity · mapped topic