Patent ID: 8031355

Claim:
A communication device, comprising: an image reading unit that reads image data from an original document on a page basis, the original document having a wireless tag including wireless tag data, the wireless tag data having a data size; a wireless tag reading unit that reads the wireless tag data from the wireless tag; a transmitting unit that associates the image data with the wireless tag data on a page basis to transmit the associated image data and wireless tag data to another device; a detecting unit that detects the data size of the wireless tag data as size information; a data-size notifying unit that notifies the another device of the size information; and a data-size determining unit that determines whether the detected data size of the wireless tag data is single or not, to generate a determination result, wherein the data-size notifying unit notifies the another device of the size information based on the determination result, and wherein, if the data-size determining unit determines that the detected data size of the wireless tag data is single, the data-size notifying unit notifies the size information indicating the detected data size to the another device before the transmitting unit transmits the associated image data and wireless tag data.