Patent ID: 8176566

Claim:
An information distribution device comprising: a reception section that receives: an electronic distribution object document which is to be distributed to one of a plurality of distribution destinations, distribution destination information that represents the one of the distribution destinations to which the distribution object document is to be distributed, and confidentiality level information representing a level of confidentiality of the distribution object document; a storage section that stores, for each of the distribution destinations: plural sets of output destination information, each set of output destination information representing one of plural output destinations at a respective one of the distribution destinations, wherein the output destinations include a plurality of output destinations using different communication protocols and different corresponding output modes; and security level information associated with each respective one of the output destinations, wherein the security level information represents a security level of an output document device at the respective one of the output destinations; a selection section that: reads, from the storage section, the plural sets of output destination information and the security level information associated with each respective one of the output destinations that correspond to the one of the distribution destinations represented by the received distribution destination information, and selects, from the read security level information and the received confidentiality level information, an output document device, at a respective one of the output destinations, having a security level that meets the level of confidentiality of the distribution object document; and a distribution section that distributes the distribution object document to the selected output document device in an output mode corresponding to the communication protocol used by the selected output destination.