Patent ID: 8407293
Filing Date: 2013-03-26
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A print service system comprising: an electronic mail receiving unit connected with a network, said receiving unit receives an electronic mail including attached image data transmitted from a user through the network; a print user designation managing unit that creates, in response to the received electronic mail transmitted from said user, a user ID and a password and a directory for a mail address used by said user, and transmits said user ID and said password to said mail address; data accumulating unit that stores image data received by said electronic mail receiving unit for each user ID in said directory; and at least one print terminal connected with the network, for downloading said image data from said data accumulating unit through the network when said user ID and said password are inputted, and printing said image data, wherein when a mail address of a third party except said user is described in a body of the electronic mail received by said electronic mail receiving unit, said user designation managing unit transmits a user ID and a password to said mail address of the third party simultaneously with transmitting said user ID and said password to said mail address of the user, and wherein the user directory is created for the user and said image data stored in said directory is managed according to the user ID and the mail addresses of the user and is printed according to the user ID and the passwords of the third party and the user.