Patent ID: 7808667

Claim:
A communication device, which receives data from a transmitting device outside, the communication device comprising: means for storing identification information; means for storing a data processing mode by associating with the identification information; means for reading the identification information in a noncontact manner; means for determining whether or not the identification information stored by being associated with the data processing mode has been read; means for processing the received data in accordance with the data processing mode associated with the identification information when the means for determining determines that the identification information has been read; means for determining that the identification information stored by being associated with the a different data processing mode has not been read; means for processing the received data under the different data processing mode stored by being associated with the identification information not read; means for storing transmitter information of the received data by associating with the identification information; means for determining that the identification information stored by being associated with the transmitter information has been read; and means for notifying that the data has been received as one processing mode.