Patent ID: 7757093

Claim:
A data management system including a plurality of imaging devices that form images represented by image data, a data management device that communicates with the plurality of imaging devices, and a terminal device that communicates with the data management device and the imaging devices, the terminal device including: a searching system that searches for the imaging device that communicates with the terminal device; and an ID information transmitting system that transmits, when the searching system detects an imaging device, first identification information for identifying the imaging device, together with second identification information for identifying the terminal device, to the data management device, the data management device including: a readout system that readouts recipient information incorporated in the image data to be processed by one of the plurality of imaging devices, the recipient information representing a recipient of an image and the image data representing the image received by the recipient; a receipt notice transmission system that transmits a receipt notice to a terminal device corresponding to the recipient information when the readout system reads out the recipient information incorporated in the image data, the receipt notice being a notification to inform the terminal device of a presence of the image data addressed to the recipient; an ID information receiving system that receives the first identification information and the second identification information from the ID information transmitting system; and a data transmitting system that transmits the image data, from which the recipient information corresponding to the second identification information received by the ID information receiving system is read out, to the imaging device that is identified based on the first identification information received by the ID information receiving system, wherein, the terminal device executes a notification operation for notifying the user of the terminal device of receipt of the receipt notice when the terminal device receives the receipt notice, and the ID information transmitting system transmits the first identification information for identifying the imaging device, together with the second identification information for identifying the terminal device to the data management device when the terminal device receives the receipt notice from the receipt notice transmission system.