Patent ID: 8665456

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a reading unit configured to read an original document; a receiving unit configured to receive specifying information used to specify a reading setting employed when the original document is read by the reading unit and user identification information assigned to the specifying information from an information processing apparatus; an obtaining unit configured to obtain user identification information input by a user; a determination unit configured to determine whether the user identification information received by the receiving unit corresponds to the user identification information obtained by the obtaining unit; a registering unit configured to register, in a case that it is determined by the determination unit that the user identification information received by the receiving unit corresponds to the user identification information obtained by the obtaining unit, the information processing apparatus which transmitted the user identification information as a display object; a displaying unit configured to display an identification of the information processing apparatus which is registered by the registering unit; a selecting unit configured to select an information processing apparatus displayed by the displaying unit; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit data generated when the reading unit reads the original document in accordance with the reading setting specified by the specifying information transmitted from the information processing apparatus selected by the selecting unit, wherein in a case that the user identification information received by the receiving unit does not correspond to the user identification information obtained by the obtaining unit and the user identification information represents that specifying information is to be shared, the registering unit registers the information processing apparatus which transmitted the user identification information as a display object, wherein the displaying unit is configured to display a plurality of identifications of a plurality of information processing apparatuses, including the identification of the information processing apparatus which transmitted user identification information corresponding to the user identification information obtained by the obtaining unit and the identification of the information processing apparatus which transmitted user identification information representing share of specifying information.