Patent ID: 7080166

Claim:
A communication apparatus, comprising: an image capture unit, adapted to capture an image and to generate data based on the captured image; a communication unit, adapted to transmit the data generated by said image capture unit to a designated destination; a management unit, adapted to manage ID information determined for each user and address location information associated with the ID information, wherein the address location information indicates a location that stores address information for designating the destination to transmit the data by said communication unit; an input unit with which the user inputs the ID information; an obtaining unit, adapted to specify the address location information managed by said management unit based on the ID information input by said input unit, to communicate with an external apparatus via a network based on the specified address location information, and to obtain the address information residing at the external apparatus corresponding to the location specified by the address location information; and a control unit, adapted to judge whether or not the address information is to be obtained based on the ID information input by said input unit, and to control said obtaining unit according to the result of the judgement, wherein said communication unit transmits the data to the destination designated from the address information obtained by said obtaining unit.