Patent ID: 6927868

Claim:
A facsimile device including: an image data memory for storing image data; a plurality of memory boxes provided in the image data memory, each of the memory boxes being accompanied with a predetermined box number and storing first image data therein; a detection device for detecting a transfer command arrived to the facsimile device, the transfer command specifying a memory box in accordance with the box number and instructing transfer of the first image data stored in the specified memory box to a calling side; a judgment device for judging whether or not the memory box specified by the transfer command using the box number detected by the detection device is effective; and an image transfer device for transferring the first image data stored in the specified memory box to the calling side when the judgment device judges that the memory box specified by the transfer command is effective, and alternatively for transferring second image data different from the first image data to the calling side when the judgment device judges that the memory box specified by the transfer command is ineffective; wherein the memory box includes plurality of confidential boxes and bulletin board boxes, wherein each of the confidential boxes is accompanied with the box number and an identification number, and each of the bulletin board boxes is accompanied with only the box number, wherein the second image data is stored in a memory box specified by advance from among the memory boxes, and wherein the image transfer device transfers the second image data stored in the specified memory box to the calling side when the judgment device judges that the designation of memory box specified by the transfer command is ineffective.