Patent ID: 7095517
Filing Date: 2006-08-22
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A facsimile apparatus that transmits facsimile data by attaching facsimile data to electronic mail (e-mail) for use with an information network, comprising: a recipient's information inputting device that inputs information of a recipient to whom the e-mail is transmitted; a notation inputting device that inputs notation that informs whether the e-mail is addressed to the recipient or the e-mail is transmitted as a carbon copy, and that correlates the notation to the recipient's information; a transmission device that transmits the facsimile data by attaching the facsimile data to the e-mail, based on the recipient's information input by the recipient's information inputting device and the notation input by the notation inputting device; an interruption device that interrupts processing of the e-mail prior to completion of generating the e-mail; and a writing device that writes information into a body of the e-mail during the interruption of the processing.