Patent ID: 7405846

Claim:
A facsimile apparatus comprising: a speed dial section for calling a destination assigned by a selected combination of numeric keys; a one-touch dial section for calling, when one of a plurality of keys independently provided from the numeric keys is selected, a destination assigned by the selected key; a first memory for storing data used by the one-touch dial section; a second memory for storing data used by the speed dial section; a detecting section for finding a vacant memory space in a third memory and a fourth memory of another facsimile apparatus connected to the facsimile apparatus, the third memory storing data used by a one-touch dial section provided in said another facsimile apparatus, the fourth memory storing data used by a speed dial section provided in said another facsimile apparatus; and an entry section for entering data of the first memory in the third memory, and data of the second memory in the fourth memory, the entry section entering at least some of the data stored in the second memory in the third memory when the detecting section finds that an amount of data stored in the second memory exceeds a vacant memory space in the fourth memory, and that an amount of data stored in the first memory is smaller than a vacant memory space in the third memory.