Patent ID: 7242497

Claim:
An information input/output system, comprising: printer servers configured to connect with an Internet; facsimile servers configured to connect with the Internet; printers configured to connect with the printer servers; facsimile apparatuses configured to connect with the facsimile servers; a terminal configured to connect with the Internet, to access information contents on the Internet, and to transmit printing request data including at least a contents ID specifying information contents for printing from among information contents on the Internet, and a print outputting destination ID specifying at least one of the printers and facsimile apparatuses for printing therewith specified information contents for printing; a gateway configured to relay data for transmission and reception between the terminal and the Internet; and a printing request administration server configured to connect with the Internet, to receive the printing request data transmitted from the terminal, and to transmit the printing request data to at least one of the printer and facsimile servers determined according to the print outputting destination ID, wherein when the gateway relays data that cannot be received by the terminal, the gateway stores the data without transmitting the data to the terminal, and assigns the contents ID to the data stored.