Patent ID: 7417760

Claim:
A facsimile system comprising: receiving means for receiving facsimile communication information given via a communication line and sender information indicative of a sender who sent the facsimile communication information; notifying means for notifying of notification information indicative that the facsimile communication information was received; storing means for storing predetermined sender information and notify party information indicative of a notify party in association with each other; clocking means for keeping time; and controlling means for causing, when the receiving means receives the facsimile communication information and the sender information, the notifying means to notify the notify party, indicated by the notify party information associated with the received sender information, of the notify party information only when determining that the received sender information is stored in the storing means and, in a case where a predetermined notification term is set, time when the facsimile communication information starts to be received, the time being checked by the clocking means, is during the predetermined notification term.