Patent ID: 8751410

Claim:
A charging system comprising: a transmitting source accepting portion to accept transmitting source specifying information for specifying a transmitting user; a destination accepting portion to accept destination specifying information for specifying a user as a destination of data; a specifying portion to accept specifying of the data; a procedure accepting portion to accept a processing procedure defining processing executed with respect to the specified data; an apparatus determining portion to acquire apparatus identification information for identifying a destination apparatus corresponding to the destination; a restriction information acquiring portion to acquire capacity information defining processing executable by the destination apparatus; a charging portion to determine a predetermined cost for the processing procedure, and to, when the processing defined by the capacity information does not include part of the processing defined by the processing procedure, execute charging processing such that the predetermined cost is charged in a divided manner to the transmitting user and the destination user, wherein the divided manner is determined by taking into consideration both the processing procedure and the processing defined by the capacity information; and a processor configured to control at least the foregoing portions.