 further embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a data transferring method including the steps of registering, upon selecting information concerning the presence of displayed data by an input operation unit, management information representing the information concerning the presence of the selected data in a management table provided on a network, and transferring, upon obtaining a data transmission request that as been provided by the input operation unit from a device on the network, data corresponding to the information concerning the presence of the data represented by the registered management information to the device on the network. In the aforementioned data transferring method, there is provided a management table on the network in which the management information representing the information concerning the presence of the data selected by the input operation unit is registered. The management table on the network is shared among apparatuses connected to the network. In this data 