Patent ID: 7365867

Claim:
A received document sorting control method for an image processing device that has an Internet facsimile communication unit for controlling internet facsimile communications via Internet, comprising: extracting transmission identification information which a document received through the Internet facsimile communications corresponds to and which is transmitted by a sender; registering a type of sorting and destination of sorting when an automatic sorting of the received document is performed corresponding to each of the items contained in the transmission identification information; receiving designation for one of the items contained in the transmission identification information; judging that the received document is a document which is subject to the automatic sorting if the transmission identification information extracted in the extracting of transmission identification information contains the item for which the designation is received in the receiving of designation, and the type of sorting and the destination of sorting are registered corresponding to the item in the registering of type and destination of sorting; and controlling an automatic sorting process that sorts the received document to the destination of sorting in accordance with the type of sorting if the received document is judged to be the document which is subject to the automatic sorting in the judging.