Copy method of generating generation-count information

Abstract

A copy method used in a cloud server and a peripheral apparatus connected to the cloud server through a network includes steps of: scanning a document by the peripheral apparatus to obtain old image data containing an old information block; transmitting the old information block to the cloud server through the network; generating a new information block based on the old image data by the cloud server, wherein the cloud server generates the new information block being different from the old information block and containing new copy information according to old copy information; transmitting the new information block from the cloud server to the peripheral apparatus; and printing out new image data, containing the new copy information and a portion of the old image data, on a medium by the peripheral apparatus.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A copy method used in a cloud server and a peripheral apparatus connected to the cloud server through a network, the copy method comprising steps of:
 scanning a document by the peripheral apparatus to obtain old image data containing an old information block;   transmitting the old information block to the cloud server through the network;   generating a new information block based on the old image data by the cloud server, wherein the cloud server generates the new information block being different from the old information block and containing new copy information according to old copy information;   transmitting the new information block from the cloud server to the peripheral apparatus; and   printing out new image data, containing the new copy information and a portion of the old image data, on a medium by the peripheral apparatus.   
     
     
         2 . The copy method according to  claim 1 , wherein the new copy information is new generation-count information, and the old copy information is old generation-count information. 
     
     
         3 . The copy method according to  claim 2 , wherein in the step of transmitting the old information block, the old image data is transmitted from the peripheral apparatus to the cloud server through the network. 
     
     
         4 . The copy method according to  claim 2 , wherein in the step of generating the new information block, the new image data containing the new information block is generated by the cloud server. 
     
     
         5 . The copy method according to  claim 2 , wherein the cloud server performs a judging process on the old image data, wherein when the old information block of the old image data is judged as containing the old copy generation-count information, the cloud server generates the new information block. 
     
     
         6 . The copy method according to  claim 2 , wherein the cloud server subtracts the old information block from the old image data to obtain a subtracted result and adds the new information block to the subtracted result to generate the new image data. 
     
     
         7 . The copy method according to  claim 2 , wherein a value represented by the new copy generation-count information is greater than a value represented by the old copy generation-count information. 
     
     
         8 . The copy method according to  claim 2 , wherein in the step of transmitting the new information block, the new image data is transmitted from the cloud server to the peripheral apparatus. 
     
     
         9 . A copy method used in a cloud server and a peripheral apparatus connected to the cloud server through a network, the copy method comprising steps of:
 scanning a document by the peripheral apparatus to obtain old image data containing an old information block;   transmitting the old image data to the cloud server through the network;   generating a new information block based on the old image data by the cloud server, wherein the cloud server generates the new information block being different from the old information block and containing new copy information according to old copy information;   transmitting new image data, containing the new copy information and a portion of the old image data, from the cloud server to the peripheral apparatus; and   printing out the new image data on a medium by the peripheral apparatus.   
     
     
         10 . The copy method according to  claim 9 , wherein the new copy information is new generation-count information, and the old copy information is old generation-count information. 
     
     
         11 . The copy method according to  claim 10 , wherein the old image data is transmitted from the peripheral apparatus to the cloud server through the network. 
     
     
         12 . The copy method according to  claim 10 , wherein the cloud server generates new image data containing the new information block based on the old image data. 
     
     
         13 . The copy method according to  claim 10 , wherein the cloud server performs a judging process on the old image data, wherein when the old information block of the old image data is judged as containing the old copy generation-count information, the cloud server generates the new information block. 
     
     
         14 . The copy method according to  claim 10 , wherein the cloud server subtracts the old information block from the old image data to obtain a subtracted result and adds the new information block to the subtracted result to generate the new image data. 
     
     
         15 . The copy method according to  claim 10 , wherein a value represented by the new copy generation-count information is greater than a value represented by the old copy generation-count information.