Patent ID: 8625124

Claim:
An image forming device comprising: a transmission section transmitting a document to a reception-side device, a copy of said document being stored at said reception-side device; a storage section storing said document; an acquisition section acquiring a status of said copy of said document from said reception-side device; a determination section determining based on said status acquired by said acquisition section whether said copy of said document is automatically deleted before being accessed by a specific user at said reception-side device; and a retransmission section retransmitting said document stored in said storage section to said reception-side device addressing said specific user when said determination section determines that said copy of said document is automatically deleted before being accessed by said specific user at said reception-side device, wherein said acquisition section acquires a document history and a user history, the document history comprises document identification information identifying said copy of said document associated with a user identification information of said specific user, and an operation information identifying whether said copy of said document identified in the document identification information is automatically deleted or not, and the user history includes one or more user identification information identifying one or more users at said reception-side device, a document identification information identifying a document associated with each user identification information, and an operation information identifying whether the user identified by each user identification information accessed the document identified by the associated document identification information.