Patent ID: 7548993

Claim:
A data transmission apparatus for transmitting image data over a network, the data transmission apparatus comprising: an image reader for obtaining image data by reading an original document; a storage device in which the obtained image data is stored; a requester to transmit a request to a recipient device to which the image data stored in the storage device is to be sent for a designation of conversion processes to be performed to the image data; a first receiver to receive from the recipient device the designation of the conversion processes; a second receiver to receive from the recipient device the designation of the conversion processes via a transmission medium different from that used by the first receiver; a switch to select one of the first and second receivers to receive the designation of the conversion process from the recipient device based on information associated with a recipient using the recipient device; a converter to perform the conversion processes on the image data stored in the storage device based on the conversion processes; and a transmitter to transmit the image data that has undergone the conversion processes to the recipient device.