Patent ID: 8107107

Claim:
A facsimile apparatus comprising: destination table storing means which stores a destination table in which button information identifying a one-touch or abbreviated dial button, a facsimile number, and a destination name are associated; input means which accepts an instruction for facsimile transmission using the one-touch or abbreviated dial button; facsimile number acquisition means which searches a database held by an external database device using a destination name associated with the one-touch or abbreviated dial button accepted by the input means as a search key to acquire a facsimile number associated with the destination name; transmission means which determines whether the facsimile number acquired by the facsimile number acquisition means agrees with a facsimile number in the destination table associated with the one-touch or abbreviated dial button accepted by the input means and which executes facsimile transmission to the facsimile number when it is determined that the numbers agree; and registration means which registers a new destination entry in the destination table storing means, wherein the registration means acquires a new button information, a new facsimile number and a new destination name from a user, searches the database held by the external database device using the new facsimile number and the new destination name as a search key, and registers the new button information, the new facsimile number and the new destination name acquired from the user in the destination table as a new destination entry when the new destination name and the new facsimile number agree with the destination name and the facsimile number associated in the database.