Patent ID: 7804616

Claim:
A data transmission apparatus transmitting data to a transmission destination indicated by specified transmission destination information via a network, comprising: a holding portion holding the specified transmission destination information; and a control portion controlling the holding portion to cause the holding portion to keep holding the transmission destination information even after completion of transmission of the data based on the transmission destination information and stand by in a state of being capable of subsequently transmitting different data to the same transmission destination, wherein the data transmission apparatus being capable of data transmission through a plurality of transmission paths for data transmission forms different from each other, the plurality of transmission paths include a transmission path for data transmission in pages, and a transmission path for data transmission in a form of one file containing data of a plurality of pages, the control portion determines whether or not to permit holding of the transmission destination information by the holding portion based on contents of transmission of the data based on the transmission destination information, and the control portion forbids holding of the transmission destination information by the holding portion based on a transmission path for the data.