Patent ID: 8797570

Claim:
An image transmission apparatus that transmits image data to an image processing apparatus that processes the image data in accordance with a destination name of the image data, comprising: a transmitter operable to transmit image data in accordance with an instruction from a user; a destination name receiver operable to receive a destination name that is a name of a destination of the image data; a judgment part operable to judge whether or not the transmission of the image data succeeds or fails; a shared list that is shared by a plurality of users and that corresponds destination names with image processing apparatuses; a history list that corresponds destination names with other apparatuses that the transmitter has transmitted image data to in the past; and a plurality of individual lists, each of which is administered by a different one of the plurality of users, and that corresponds the destination names with apparatuses other than the image processing apparatuses corresponded therewith in the shared list, wherein, when the judgment part judges that transmission of the image data to the image processing apparatus corresponded with the destination name in the shared list has failed, the transmitter transmits the image data to an apparatus that is corresponded with the destination name in the individual list administered by the user who instructed the transmission; wherein when the judgment part judges that the transmission of the image data to the apparatus associated with destination name in the individual list has failed, the transmitter transmits the image data to the apparatus associated with the destination name in the history list.