Patent ID: 6813036
Filing Date: 2004-11-02
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
An internet facsimile machine capable of facsimile transmission via an internet to an addressee, comprising:identification information input means for an operator to input user identification information of an address of an addressee, the address including user identification information and information relating to a user; attribute presenting means for presenting a plurality of attributes of the information relating to the user before an operator inputs the information relating to the user so that one of the presented attributes is selected so that a number of possible candidates for the information relating to the user is reduced; predetermined information input/selection means for inputting or selecting a predetermined piece of information so that the information relating to the user in the address of the addressee is narrowed; storage means for storing a large amount of information about the user; candidate presenting means for presenting a candidate for the information relating to the user in the address of the addressee by relating the predetermined information input or selected by the input/selection means to the information about the user stored in the storage means; presented candidate determining means for determining only one candidate when said one candidate is presented by the candidate presenting means, and for selecting and determining either or any one of two or more candidates when said two or more candidates are presented by the candidate presenting means; and transmission instruction means for instructing execution of internet transmission according to an address including the user identification information input by the identification information input means and the information relating to the user determined by the presented candidate determining means.