Patent ID: 8286003

Claim:
An address list management apparatus for recording an address list that is specific to a user of an image formation apparatus and includes one or more address information pieces for transmission of data by the image formation apparatus, the address list management apparatus comprising: a sending list creator operable to create a sending list by, for each address information piece including secret information in the address list, deleting the secret information and changing each address information piece such that data to be transmitted from the image formation apparatus to a specified address in the sending list is instead transmitted to the address list management apparatus; an address list request receiver operable to receive an address list request, which is a request from the image formation apparatus for the address list specific to the user; a sending list transmitter operable to, upon reception of the address list request, transmit to the image formation apparatus the sending list that pertains to the user; and a data transfer part operable to, upon reception of the data and the specified address received from the image formation apparatus, read the address information pieces in the address list and transfer the received data to the specified address.