Patent ID: 7990970

Claim:
A data transmission apparatus, comprising: a transmitting portion capable of transmitting data to an address set by a user's transmission operation; an authenticating portion for executing authentication of the user; a counter portion for counting the number of past transmissions for an address; a storing portion for storing a transmission history including the counted number of past transmissions in an updatable manner; a registering portion for automatically registering an address whose number of past transmissions by all users has reached a prescribed number, as an automatically registered address; a displaying portion for displaying an address setting screen; a discrimination portion for discriminating whether, based on the transmission history, an operating user who is among the all users and logs into the data transmission apparatus through the authenticating portion has previously transmitted to the automatically registered address; and a controlling portion for making the displaying portion display the automatically registered address in a selectable manner on the address setting screen of the displaying portion only when it is discriminated by the discrimination portion that there is the transmission history that the operating user had transmitted to the automatically registered address.