Patent ID: 7528845

Claim:
An image processing apparatus which transmits image data to a plurality of addresses via a network, the apparatus comprising: a transmission device which transmits the image data to an address in said plurality of addresses; an address setting device which sets at least two of said plurality of addresses as destination addresses for transmission of the image data; a first storage device that stores attributes for the plurality of addresses; an obtaining device that obtains the attributes of the destination addresses from the first storage device; a determining device that calculates, based on the obtained attributes, a first ratio representing a proportion of the destination addresses having a first attribute and a second ratio representing a proportion of the destination addresses having a second attribute, and determines whether the first ratio is greater than both a predetermined ratio and the second ratio; a display device which displays a first destination address having the first attribute, and a second destination address having the second attribute on the same screen, in different manners from each other when the determining device determines that the first ratio is greater than both the predetermined ratio and the second ratio.