Patent ID: 8045197

Claim:
An image data processing system, comprising a plurality of image processing apparatuses each connected to a network wherein said plurality of image processing apparatuses each includes a user data storage portion to store user data including user identification information for identifying each user; an input apparatus among said plurality of image processing apparatuses, wherein a job is inputted, includes a destination designation portion to display a user identified by the user identification information stored in the user data storage portion so as to designate the user as a destination, a data designation portion to designate image data for the destination designated in the destination designation portion, a relation data generating portion to generate relation data associating location information of said designated data in said network with the user identification information of said designated user as the destination, a storing portion to store said relation data, and a controlling portion to cause another image processing apparatus, which is identified as a home terminal of the user designated as the destination, among said plurality of image processing apparatuses to store said relation data if the input apparatus is not identified as a home terminal of the user designated as the destination, and cause said storing portion to store said relation data if the input apparatus is the home terminal of the user designated as the destination; and an output apparatus among said plurality of image processing apparatuses, to output the job, includes a data processing method designation portion to designate a data processing method for the image data, wherein the data processing method is designated by the user designated as the destination, a user identification information input portion to accept an input of user identification information, a determination portion to determine whether or not the output apparatus is identified as a home terminal of the user corresponding to the accepted user identification information, an acquiring portion to acquire said relation data from a terminal identified as a home terminal of the user corresponding to the accepted user identification information when said determination portion determines that the output apparatus is not the home terminal of the user corresponding to the accepted user identification information, a data extracting portion to extract image data based on said relation data acquired from said home terminal of the user corresponding to the accepted user identification information, and a data processing portion to process the image data extracted by the data extracting portion based on the data processing method designated in the data processing method designation portion.