Patent ID: 7570378

Claim:
A communication device, comprising: a scanner to read graphic data from a document, a data container to contain data to be sent to another communication device, the data including the graphic data read from the document, an appending information holding section to hold appended information corresponding to the data to be sent, the appended information including sending mode information that identifies a plurality of sending modes, ID information that identifies the graphic data read from the document using a designation that is smaller in size than the graphic data read from the document, and a fax number for the communication device, wherein the sending modes including at least a first sending mode and a second sending mode, and a data sending and receiving controller to retrieve the data from the data container and the appended information from the appending information holding section, and to send the retrieved data and appended information to the another communication device in the first sending mode along with the appended information and, if a data re-sending request based on the appended information is received from the another communication device, for taking data identified by the ID information out of the data container and re-sending it to the another communication device in the second sending mode, wherein the re-sending request contains a designation of said second sending mode based on said sending mode information in said appended information, and wherein the data sending and receiving controller includes a graphic editing and transforming section that transforms the data taken out of the data container after the re-sending request in accordance with the second sending mode.