Patent ID: 8014019

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: an image data transmission unit configured to transmit image data; a detecting unit configured to detect a portable memory medium; a recognition unit configured to recognize a user ID stored by the portable memory medium; a user ID transmission unit configured to transmit the recognized user ID to a server via a network in order to acquire information corresponding to the recognized user ID; a receiving unit configured to receive the information corresponding to the recognized user ID from the server via the network; and a setting unit configured to set the received information as transmission source information of the image data to be transmitted by the image data transmission unit, wherein, in response to the detecting unit detecting the portable memory medium, without user interaction, the recognition unit automatically recognizes the user ID, the user ID transmission unit automatically transmits the user ID recognized by the recognition unit, and the receiving unit automatically receives the information corresponding to the user ID recognized by the recognition unit.