Patent ID: 7095524
Filing Date: 2006-08-22
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image data communication apparatus connected to an image data source and to a network, and transmitting image data attached to an e-mail to a receiving apparatus via the network, the e-mail including a mail from command and a mail message, the image data attached to the e-mail as an openable document, the image data communication apparatus comprising: a memory configured to store default information, information regarding an identification of at least one user of the image communication apparatus, a default e-mail address, and an e-mail address of the at least one user; a panel configured to select the information regarding an identification of at least one user and the e-mail address of the at least one user other than the default information and other than the default e-mail address stored in the memory; and a controller configured to set the default information and the default e-mail address into the mail message of the e-mail to which the image data is attached when the information regarding the identification of the user and the e-mail address of the user are not selected by the panel; the controller being configured to set the information regarding the identification of the user and the e-mail address of the user selected by the panel into the mail message of the e-mail to which the image data is attached when the information regarding the identification of the user and the e-mail address of the user are selected by the panel, whereby opening, at the receiving apparatus, of the attached image data is not required to determine the information regarding the identification of the user, and the e-mail address set into the mail message of the e-mail can be utilized as a destination of a reply to the e-mail, the reply being sent from the receiving apparatus.