摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique for selecting a service provision device connected to a network and making use of it more appropriately with a simpler operation. <P>SOLUTION: An image processor comprises: input means for inputting data and output destination information of the data; identification means for identifying an output method of the data for each piece of the input output destination information on the basis of the output destination information; count means for counting the number of output destinations for each output method; number determination means for determining the number of output processing for each output method on the basis of the counted number of output destinations for each output method, and the number of output destinations to which each output method is capable of transmitting with one processing; determination means for determining whether or not an own device is capable of satisfying the number of output processing for each output method; retrieval means for retrieving another device capable of handling an output method which the own device is determined not to be capable of satisfying; selection means for selecting the other device for output processing; and output control means for outputting the data and output destination information corresponding thereto to the other device. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT |