Patent ID: 6879411

Claim:
A facsimile system, comprising: a facsimile machine reading image data from an original; a computer transmitting to and receiving from the facsimile machine data of addressee identification information indicative of at least a name of addressee and a facsimile number corresponding to the name of addressee; computer-side storage means provided at a computer side for storing the data of addressee identification information; computer-side referring means provided at the computer side for fetching the data of addressee identification information from the computer-side storage means; computer-side output means for outputting the fetched data of addressee identification information to the facsimile machine in case of facsimile transmission so that the facsimile transmission is executed according to a desired piece of addressee identification information selected from the fetched data of addressee identification information; instruction means provided in the facsimile machine so as to instruct the computer at the facsimile machine side to refer via the computer-side referring means to the data of addressee identification information stored in the computer-side storage means in case of facsimile transmission, the instruction means including: retrieval command means to enable an operator to command retrieving the data of addressee identification information from the computer to the facsimile machine, and registration command means to enable the operator to command registering the data of addressee identification information; and a display that displays the data of addressee identification information fetched by the computer-side referring means in case of facsimile transmission so that the desired piece of addressee identification information is selected at the facsimile machine side.