Patent ID: 8370406

Claim:
An image transmission apparatus operable for a sender to transmit image data to a recipient, in accordance with a first address book registered in an address server computer, the first address book including recipient settings of destination names and transmission methods set by users, the image transmission apparatus comprising: a processor; a destination name obtaining part operable to obtain, from the address server computer, a list of the destination names that correspond to users who have registered a transmission method in the first address book; a selection receiving part operable to, when the sender registers the recipient in a second address book, receive from the sender a selection of whether or not to follow the transmission method registered in the first address book when transmitting the image data; a first registration part operable to, if the selection receiving part has received a selection to not follow the transmission method registered in the first address book, receive from the sender (a) a destination name to be registered for the recipient and (b) a transmission method to correspond to the received destination name; a second registration part operable to, if the selection receiving part has received a selection to follow the transmission method registered in the first address book, receive, from the sender, a selection of one of the destination names from the obtained list of the destination names, as the destination name to be registered for the recipient together with the transmission method registered in the first address book, and to register the selection the second address book; and a transmitting part operable to, when transmitting the image data, if the destination name of the recipient selected by the user is registered by the first registration part, transmit the image data in accordance with the transmission method registered in the second address book, and, if the destination name of the recipient selected by the user is registered by the second registration part, transmit the image data according to the transmission method registered in the first address book.