Patent ID: 11949836
Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An image transmission device comprising:
a communicator that transmits image data to an e-mail address set by a user via a network;
a storage that stores, for each predetermined case in a plurality of predetermined cases, a target domain applicable to the predetermined case and a target user applicable to the predetermined case; and
a controller having at least a CPU, the controller controlling the communicator and the storage and authenticating the user, wherein
the target domain is transmittable for the target user,
the target domain and the target user are registered together for the predetermined case,
when the user sets the e-mail address to which the image data is to be transmitted, the controller determines whether a domain portion of the e-mail address matches the target domain of any of the plurality of predetermined cases, and when the domain portion matches the target domain, the controller accepts settings of the e-mail address,
when the domain portion of the e-mail address does not match the target domain of any of the plurality of predetermined cases, the controller does not accept the settings of the e-mail address,
when the user sets the e-mail address to which the image data is to be transmitted, the controller further determines, as a first determination, whether the user authenticated by the controller is the target user of the predetermined case, when the user is the target user, the controller determines, as a second determination following the first determination, whether the domain portion of the e-mail address matches the target domain transmittable for the target user, and when the domain portion matches the target domain, the controller accepts the settings of the e-mail address, and
when the user is not the target user, or when the domain portion of the email address does not match the target domain transmittable for the target user, the controller does not accept the settings of the e-mail address.