Patent ID: 7852495

Claim:
A confirmation sheet updating system for updating a confirmation sheet generated in response to transmitting a document using at least one service to at least one destination, comprising: the confirmation sheet comprising: a status portion indicating, for at least one of the at least one service and for at least one of the at least one destination: a service to be used for the transmission, a destination to which the transmission is directed, a status of the transmission, and at least one information element about the transmission; at least two thumbnail images, the at least two thumbnail images being generated from selected pages of the document to be transmitted, the at least two thumbnail images being selected by a requester of the transmission from at most one page less than the pages of the document to be transmitted; and a glyph incorporated in the confirmation sheet, the glyph usable to access information that has been updated since the confirmation sheet containing the information was created, wherein the glyph is incorporated when at least one transmission for the at least one service or to the at least one destination was attempted and not incorporated when the status of the transmission reports a completed transmission, wherein a network address is incorporated in the confirmation sheet only when at least one transmission for the at least one service or to the at least one destination was not successfully completed, the network address usable to access information that may have been updated since the confirmation sheet containing the information was created, an image reading apparatus for reading the confirmation sheet; and an updated confirmation sheet including the information that has been updated since the confirmation sheet containing the information was created, wherein the document was transmitted as a single job using at least a plurality of services.