Patent ID: 8045196

Claim:
An image processing system, comprising: a plurality of image processing apparatuses connected to a network; wherein each image processing apparatus comprises a user data storage portion to store user data including user identification information for identifying a plurality of users and apparatus identification information for identifying a home terminal of each of the plurality of users, a data input portion into which image data is inputted, a relation information generating portion to generate relation information which associates location information of the inputted image data in the network with the user identification information of one of the plurality of users, a storage portion to store the relation information when the user identification information is that of a user identified in the relation information as a user that uses the image processing apparatus as a home terminal, wherein the relation information is stored only in the storage portion of the home terminal which the user identified by the relation information uses as the home terminal, a control portion to control so as to store the relation information in the storage portion of another image processing apparatus among said plurality of image processing apparatuses when the user identification information is that of a user identified in the relation information as a user that uses as the home terminal the another image processing apparatus, a user identification information input portion into which user identification information is inputted, a relation information obtaining portion to obtain the relation information, which includes the user identification information inputted in the user identification information input portion, wherein the relation information is obtained from said home terminal of the user identified by said user identification information, and a data obtaining portion to obtain image data associated by the relation information obtained by the relation information obtaining portion, wherein said storage portion stores the image data inputted into the data input portion in addition to the relation information, the control portion controls so as to store the image data in the storage portion of the image processing apparatus in which the image data has been input, and said relation information generating portion generates the relation information in response to the storage portion storing the inputted image data.