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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2008
Takehisa Yamaguchi, Ikoma, JP;
Hirohisa Miyamoto, Kobe, JP;
Minako Kobayashi, Ikeda, JP;
Katsuhiko Akita, Amagasaki, JP;
Okihisa Yoshida, Amagasaki, JP;
Takehisa Yamaguchi, Ikoma, JP;
Hirohisa Miyamoto, Kobe, JP;
Minako Kobayashi, Ikeda, JP;
Katsuhiko Akita, Amagasaki, JP;
Okihisa Yoshida, Amagasaki, JP;
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc., Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Personal address books of users are stored in an address server. Each user registers, with the personal address book of his/her own, conditions (transmission conditions) that should be satisfied when other users transmit image data to the user. The conditions are registered in correspondence with addresses of the other users. When one of the other users transmits (as a transmission source) to the user (as a transmission destination) who has set the transmission conditions, from an MFP, the transmission conditions, which were set by the transmission destination user with respect to the transmitter, are downloaded from the address server to the transmission source MFP. And then the MFP transmits the image data to the transmission destination user under the downloaded transmission conditions. This enables the transmission destination user to cause the image data to be transmitted thereto under such conditions that match the needs of the transmission destination user.