Patent ID: 9635214
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a storage unit configured to store an address book which registers a plurality of names associated with numbers; and a processor for executing a computer program to execute a process which comprises: controlling to display a setting screen in which a user specifies a setting rule of a filename, wherein the setting screen displays a plurality of fields in which a user selects types of information to be used for the filename and further displays an arrangement order of the selected types of information by combining a separator and the types of information selected in the plurality of fields by the user, obtaining image data transmitted from an external apparatus, obtaining a number of the external apparatus, acquiring, from the address book, a name being associated with the obtained number of the external apparatus, setting, using the acquired name and the setting rule specified in the setting screen, a filename to the received image data in a case where the specified setting rule includes a registered name as one of the types of information selected in the plurality of fields and the name being associated with the obtained number of the external apparatus is successfully acquired from the address book, wherein the filename is set using a default name as a part of the filename in a case where the name being associated with the obtained number of the external apparatus is not successfully acquired from the address book, and transferring, to a file server, the image data to which the filename has been set.