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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2002
Toshimi Shinchi, Osaka, JP;
Junichi Nishiyama, Osaka, JP;
Toshimi Shinchi, Osaka, JP;
Junichi Nishiyama, Osaka, JP;
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A data transmission apparatus including a multicasting means for executing multicasting transmission for a mixture of e-mails and facsimiles, a destination setting means for setting destinations of the multicasting transmission, a first adding means for, based on e-mail destinations set by the destination setting means, generating image data representing the e-mail destinations, and adding the image data to an image data to be transmitted as a facsimile by the multicasting transmission, and a second adding means for, based on facsimile destinations set by the destination setting means, generating character string data representing the facsimile destinations and adding the character string data to an e-mail to be transmitted by the multicasting transmission.