Patent ID: 8427673

Claim:
An image transmission system in which a server for providing image data transmission conditions is connected with a plurality of image transmission devices via a network, the server comprising: a transmission condition receiving part operable to receive a specification of transmission conditions which should be satisfied when image data is transmitted to a particular receiver, the transmission conditions being specified in correspondence with one or more different transmitters of the image data or in correspondence with one or more different groups of transmitters; a storage storing therein a plurality of personal address books, each personal address book corresponding to a registrant, and each personal address book including (1) information identifying at least one transmission destination to which image data is transmitted and (2) at least one transmission condition which should be satisfied when image data is transmitted to the registrant of the personal address book from a particular transmitter or transmitters or from a particular group of transmitters or groups of transmitters; a personal address book transmitting part operable to, upon receiving a first request from an image transmission device, transmit a personal address book corresponding to a transmitter specified by the first request; a searching part operable to, upon receiving from the image transmission device a second request specifying a receiver, search a personal address book corresponding to the receiver for at least one transmission condition corresponding to the transmitter specified by the first request; a transmission condition transmitting part operable to transmit the at least one transmission condition found by the searching part to the image transmission device; each of the plurality of image transmission devices comprising: a transmitter information obtaining part operable to obtain information that identifies a transmitter who transmits the image data; a personal address book obtaining part operable to obtain, from the storage of the server, a personal address book corresponding to the transmitter identified by the information obtained by the transmitter information obtaining part; a receiver information receiving part operable to receive information that identifies a receiver included in the obtained personal address book, the receiver being the desired recipient of the image data to be transmitted; a transmission condition obtaining part operable to obtain, a personal address book corresponding to the identified receiver stored in the storage of the server, after the personal address book obtaining part has obtained the personal address book corresponding to the identified transmitter, at least one transmission condition corresponding to the identified receiver and the identified transmitter or a group to which the identified transmitter belongs; and a transmitting part operable to transmit the image data to the identified receiver under the obtained transmission conditions.