Patent ID: 7234162

Claim:
A communication apparatus shared by a plurality of users, comprising: a memory that stores, for each of the users, user information including a password and a name, and stores a default name; a panel for entering a password; a destination input unit for entering a character string corresponding to a destination, said destination input unit selecting between email transmission and facsimile transmission based on contents of said character string a scanner that scans an image to obtain image data; a controller that a) for email transmission, extracts from the memory a name corresponding to an entered password, and b) for facsimile transmission, extracts the default name from the memory; a generator that a) for email transmission, generates an email to which an image file of the image data is attached by putting, in the “From” field of the header of the email, the name extracted by the controller, and b) for facsimile transmission, generates a facsimile by adding, to the image data, the default name extracted by the controller; and a transmitter that a) for email transmission, transmits the email generated by the generator to a recipient, and b) for facsimile transmission, transmits the facsimile generated by the generator to the recipient.