Patent ID: 7274949

Claim:
A method of controlling the operations of an image communication system comprising an image processor, a portable telephone set arranged separately from and capable of establishing data communication with said image processor, image data representing an image being stored in said image processor and image list data being prepared by said image processor, comprising the steps of: transmitting the prepared image list data from said image processor to said portable telephone set after communication between them has been established, and receiving the transmitted image list data in said portable telephone set; displaying an image list represented by the received image list data and accepting an image identification selected in the displayed image list in said portable telephone set; transmitting the accepted image identification to said image processor from said portable telephone set and receiving the image identification in said image processor; transmitting image data of the image identified by the received image identification to said portable telephone set from said image processor, and receiving the transmitted image data in the portable telephone set; and further transmitting the received image data to a transmission destination through a communication network from said portable telephone set.