Patent ID: 7149790

Claim:
A communication device, comprising: mail communication means for sending and receiving e-mails with a computer network; determination means for determining whether a received e-mail is destined for a facsimile device; URL determination means for determining whether or not there is any particular description meaning that a URL is designated in the e-mail, if said e-mail received from said computer network is determined by the determination means as being destined for a facsimile device; data acquisition means for acquiring homepage information corresponding to the URL designated in the e-mail, if there is said particular description in the e-mail; data conversion means for converting both the homepage information into facsimile data and contents of the e-mail into facsimile data; and sending means for sending the facsimile data converted by said data conversion means to a destination based on a destination address of said e-mail, wherein said data acquisition means comprises: page existence confirmation means for detecting whether or not a homepage corresponding to said URL exists, and if said homepage does exist, said data conversion means converts the contents of the e-mail designating the URL corresponding to said homepage and the contents of said homepage into the facsimile data, and said sending means sends the facsimile data converted from the e-mail and said homepage to the destination based on the destination address of the e-mail, and if said homepage does not exist, said data conversion means converts the contents of the e-mail designating the URL corresponding to said homepage into the facsimile data, and said sending means sends the facsimile data converted from the e-mail to the destination based on the destination address of the e-mail.