Patent ID: 7366758
Filing Date: 2008-04-29
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. An apparatus, comprising: a communication unit configured to receive an email through a communication line from a remote site, the email having been sent by a user and including a first identifier identifying the user and data, the communication unit being connected to the Internet and configured to receive the email from the Internet; an accumulation unit configured to store the data; a printout unit; an input unit configured to receive a second identifier entered by the user through direct operation thereof at a local site where said apparatus is installed; and a control unit configured to control said printout unit to print the data corresponding to the first identifier at the local site by reading the data from said accumulation unit if the second identifier matches the first identifier, wherein said accumulation unit includes wherein said control unit is further (1) configured to check whether the e-mail is provided with the first identifier, (2) configured to store the data of the email including the first identifier in said private accumulation unit selected in response to a result of the check so as to control, in response to the result of the check, said printout unit to print the data corresponding to the first identifier at the local site by reading the data from said private accumulation unit if the second identifier matches the first identifier, and (3) configured to store data of the email failing to include the first identifier in said output accumulation unit selected in response to the result of the check so as to control, in response to the result of the check, said printout unit to print the data stored in said output accumulation unit at the local site immediately after the storing of the data in said output accumulation unit.