Patent ID: 8115955

Claim:
A communication device, comprising: a reading unit that reads image data from an original document, the original document having a wireless tag including wireless tag data, the wireless tag data having data size; a wireless tag reading unit that reads the wireless tag data from the wireless tag; and a transmitting unit that associates the image data with the wireless tag data to transmit the associated image data and wireless tag data to another device a functional information acquiring unit that acquires functional information indicating whether the another device has a function of writing the wireless tag data into a further wireless tag; a data-processing unit that processes the image data and the wireless tag data on the basis of the functional information of the another device; and a memory, wherein the data-processing unit selects one of a first action and a second action, the first action causing the transmitting unit to transmit the image data, and a second action saving the image data in the memory, and then processes the image data in accordance with the selected action, if the functional information indicates that the another device does not have the function of writing the wireless tag data into the further wireless tag.