Appeal No. 1998-0938
Application 08/377,532
thereof. On page 15 of the specification, appellants disclose that Figure 1 illustrates a
communication system of the present invention. In Figure 1, a data transmission/re-
ception device is attached to an existing printer (100) for adapting the printer (100) to
function as a facsimile machine, and for enabling the printer (100) not only to print both
image signals from a host computer (400) and facsimile messages from a remote facility,
such as either a remote fax machine (300) or a remote computer (200) via a private
service telephone network, but also transmits the facsimile messages received from either
the remote fax machine (300) or the remote computer (200) to the host computer (400) for
a visual display on a computer screen and in accordance with the user's selection. On
pages 15 and 16 of the specification, appellants disclose that Figure 2 shows the
preferred embodiment of the data transmission/reception device according to the present
invention. Appellants disclose that the fax/modem transmission/reception unit which is
newly added to a well-known electrophotographic printer according to the present
invention, comprises a ring heard detector (28) for detecting a ring signal indicative of a
facsimile reception; a modular/demodular (26) for demodulating the data transferred from
the remote facsimile (300) and modulating the data supplied from a host computer (400)
connected to a printer; a control part (22) and (29) for controlling the
modulator/demodulator (26) to start the facsimile reception if the
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