Patent ID: 7774454

Claim:
An information communication device notifying a managing device of device information collected regarding a management target device by electric mail, said information communication device comprising: an information selecting section for selecting local to the target device which of the collected device information is to be converted into mail data and which of the collected device information is to be converted into attached data; and a transmission processing section that converts the collected device information into all of (i) a header indicative of a destination and a title, (ii) attached data that is confidential information indicative of a state of the target device and (iii) mail data that is non-confidential information indicative of a state of the target device in an electric mail format, in accordance with the selection performed by the information selecting section, and, upon arrangement of the device information into the header, attached data and mail data, transmits a single electric mail containing all of the header, the attached data and the mail data to said managing device in a state in which attached confidential information cannot be accessed without a dedicated program used by said managing device easily; on-going selection of information being performed by the information selecting portion provided in the device and the selected information being sent.