Patent ID: 8218179

Claim:
An information processing system, comprising: an image forming apparatus; and a plurality of terminal devices configured to communicate with the image forming apparatus, each one terminal device comprising: a first user identification processing unit configured to identify a user who operates the terminal device; a registration request processing unit configured to transmit to the image forming apparatus: a registration request for data destination information indicating another user that is permitted to set the user identified by the first user identification processing unit as a destination of image data originated from the image forming apparatus; user identification information of the user identified by the first user identification processing unit; and a request to delete the registered data destination information indicating the another user for which the registration request has been made; and a reception processing unit configured to transmit transmission setting information to the image forming apparatus before receiving the image data, and to receive the image data according to the transmission setting information from the image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus comprising: a registration processing unit configured to receive the data destination information indicating the another user and the user identification information, to retain the data destination information indicating the another user in association with the user identification information, and to delete the data destination information indicating the another user upon reception of the request to delete the registered data destination information indicating the another user; a second user identification processing unit configured to identify a user who operates the image forming apparatus; a display device configured to display a user list based on the user identification information associated with the data destination information indicating the another user and including the user identified by the second user identification processing unit; an input device configured to detect an operation for selecting a user to be the destination of the image data from the user list; a destination identification processing unit configured to identify as the destination of the image data the plurality of terminal devices that have transmitted the user identification information of the user identified based on the operation; and a transmission processing unit configured to acquire the transmission setting information from the plurality of terminal devices identified by the destination identification processing unit before transmitting the image data, and to transmit the image data according to the transmission setting information to the plurality of terminal devices identified by the destination identification processing unit.