Patent ID: 7647371

Claim:
A data processing system comprising (a) a document transmission apparatus capable of transmitting data, (b) a computer system including a data management unit for storing and managing the data transmitted by said document transmission apparatus in a plurality of storage destinations and a data storage unit for performing a process of causing storage of the data transmitted from said document transmission apparatus in said data management unit, and (c) an information processing terminal to be used by a user, wherein said document transmission apparatus, said computer system, and said information processing terminal are connected through a network, and wherein said data storage unit comprises: a holding unit that holds, in a memory of said data storage unit, an identifier indicating a notification destination of the user to which a notification can be performed, so as to correspond to each of storage destinations of storing the data by said data management unit, before the data to be stored to the storage destinations is transmitted from said document transmission apparatus to said computer system, a storage destination acquisition unit that acquires storage destination information of the data stored by said data management unit, from said data management unit when the data transmitted by said document transmission apparatus is stored to one of the storage destinations corresponding to the acquired storage destination information, and a notification unit that specifies, in response to the data from said document transmission apparatus being stored to one of the storage destinations, a notification destination corresponding to the storage destination which is indicated by the storage destination information acquired by said storage destination acquisition unit by referring to the identifier held by said holding unit, and to transmit, through the network to said information processing terminal based on the specified notification destination, a notification to which the storage destination information acquired by said storage destination acquisition unit has been added, the notification to be notified by said notification unit indicating that the data has been stored to the storage destination corresponding to the acquired storage destination information, wherein said holding unit holds in a table in said memory of said data storage unit, for each of the storage destinations, at least one said identifier indicating the notification destination of the user to which a notification can be performed, wherein when said holding unit holds, for a storage destination of the storage destinations, a plurality of said identifiers, said notification unit uses the table to obtain the notification destination by selecting one of the plurality of identifiers.