Patent ID: 8488153

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a receiver that receives data to be processed, which data is transmitted by a portable terminal, wirelessly; a job executor that executes a job on the data to be processed, which is received by the receiver; a detector that detects that a job executed on the data to be processed is stopped due to interruption of the wireless communication with the portable terminal, which happens to occur while the receiver is receiving the data to be processed; a judger that judges whether or not portable terminals connected before and after the detector detects stop of the job execution are one and the same; a requestor that requests the reconnected portable terminal to retransmit the data to be processed, if the judger judges that the portable terminals are one and the same; and a job execution resuming portion that makes the job executor resume executing the job on the data to be processed, which is retransmitted in response to the requestor's request, wherein the judger judges that the portable terminals connected before and after stop of the job execution should be treated as they are one and the same if the data to be processed is stored in one recording medium that can be removably loaded on the portable terminals, and if the one recording medium connected before the stop of job execution is determined to be the same one recording medium connected after the stop of job execution, the portable terminals transmitting the data to be processed by using the one recording medium.