Patent ID: 7382476

Claim:
A facsimile device provided with a receipt-rejected function of rejecting message receipt from a communication partner other than communication partners previously registered in a receipt-allowed communication partner registering table, said facsimile device comprising: a communication control information storage medium configured to store receipt-rejected communication control information for receipt-rejected communications as well as normal communication control information for receipt-allowed communications; a receipt-rejected communication control device collecting said receipt-rejected communication control information in connection with a communication relating to the message arrival from the communication partner not registered in said receipt-allowed communication partner registering table, and storing said receipt-rejected collected communication control information, along with said normal communication control information for said receipt-allowed communication, in said communication control information storage medium; a communication control list creating medium selectively extracting said receipt-rejected communication control information from said communication control information storage medium storing both said normal communication control information and said receipt-rejected communication control information, and creating a list on the basis of the selectively extracted communication control information from said communication control information storage medium, said list including for each communication identified in the list, date and time of the communication; and a list outputting medium visibly outputting said list created by said communication control list creating medium, wherein when said communication relating to the message arrival from said communication partner not registered in said receipt-allowed communication partner registering table is rejected, a facsimile receiving process is not performed by said facsimile device for the receipt-rejected communication, wherein for a receipt-rejected communication partner, said list shows a plurality of rejected communications from the receipt-rejected communication partner including for each rejected communication from the receipt-rejected communication partner the date and time of the rejected communication and wherein said list only shows the plurality of rejected communications from receipt-rejected communication partners including for each rejected communication from the receipt-rejected communication partner the date and time of the rejected communication.