Patent ID: 7656550

Claim:
A data transmission apparatus having a plurality of data transmission functions, each data transmission function performing transmission of a different form of data from the forms of data whose transmission is performed by the other data transmission functions, comprising: a transmission operation storage device that, for each data transmission function, stores recipient information that was input during an immediately prior transmission operation; a selecting device that selects one data transmission function from a plurality of the data transmission functions; an operation content reading device that reads contents of transmission operations; a resend executing device that, when the content of a transmission operation read by the operation content reading device indicates a resend, reads recipient information, for the data transmission function selected by the selecting device, from the transmission operation storage device, and executes a transmission operation based on the read recipient information; and a transmission executing device that, when the content of a transmission operation read by the operation content reading device does not indicate a resend, stores the read operation content in the transmission operation storage device as recipient information for the data transmission function selected by the selecting device, and executes a transmission operation based on the read operation content.