Patent ID: 6816279
Filing Date: 2004-11-09
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A network system comprising:reading out image data from a document by a digital copying machine during an image formation; detecting whether there is a free space in an image memory of an external device; adding to the image data identification data for identifying the image data read from a document by a digital copying machine to the image data during an image formation according to the image data of the document in the digital copying machine; recording the image data with the added identification data in the image memory of the external device, which has a free space; judging whether or not an image recording process for recording the image data in the image memory of the external device has been completed; when the image recording process for recording the image data in the image memory of an external device is not completed, executing again reading of the image data from the document in the digital copying machine and the image recording process to another external device; and reading out the recorded image data according to the identification data.