Patent ID: 7557945

Claim:
A communication system comprising: an image storing unit that stores image data transmitted or received through facsimile communications: a page generating unit that generates a list page, the list page being a web page displaying a list of communication details associated with the image data transmitted or received through the facsimile communications, the list of communication details including hyperlinks to the associated image data stored in the image storing unit; a page distributing unit that distributes via a network the list page generated by the page generating unit; an access determining unit that automatically determines whether to allow access to the image data associated with the communication details of the facsimile communication, when the image data is transmitted or received through facsimile communications, based on contents of the communication details; and a first storage commanding unit that stores image data transmitted or received through facsimile communications and communication details associated with the image data in the image storing unit, wherein the page generating unit generates the list page having the hyperlinks only to the image data for which the access determining unit allows access, and wherein the access determining unit determines whether to allow access to the image data when the image data is transmitted or received through facsimile communications, and the first storage commanding unit stores only the communication details in the image storing unit when the access determining unit determines not to allow access based on the communication details and stores the communication details and the associated image data in the image storing unit when the access determining unit determines to allow access based on the communication details.