Patent ID: 8112442

Claim:
A facsimile machine capable of communicating with a terminal through a network, the facsimile machine comprising: a storage that stores a telephone book data in which a plurality of address information is recorded, each of the plurality of address information corresponds to each of a plurality of other facsimile machines to which the facsimile machine is able to transmit facsimile data, and stores computer-executable components; and a processing unit configured to execute the computer-executable components, which when executed, cause the facsimile machine to provide a file creating module, a receiver, a transmitter and an updating module, wherein: the file creating module creates a plurality of text files, each of which is converted from each of the plurality of address information recorded in the telephone book data, and is viewable on the terminal, wherein an identifier is attached to each of the plurality of address information, and the file creating module creates a file name for each of the plurality of text files so that the file name includes the identifier that corresponds to the address information of the created text file; the receiver receives a list-request of the plurality of address information from the terminal; the transmitter transmits file names of the plurality of text files to the terminal in response to the list-request; the receiver also receives a readout-request that designates one of the file names of the plurality of text files from the terminal; the transmitter transmits one of the plurality of text files designated by the readout-request to the terminal in response to the readout-request; the receiver also receives from the terminal a new text file including new address information corresponding to at least one of the other facsimile machines to which the facsimile machine is able to transmit facsimile data; and the updating module updates the telephone book data by registering the new address information included in the new text file transmitted from the terminal.