Facsimile and static presentation processing – Facsimile – Facsimile relay system
Reexamination Certificate
2004-03-08
2008-11-04
Safaipour, Houshang (Department: 2625)
Facsimile and static presentation processing
Facsimile
Facsimile relay system
C358S442000, C358S468000, C358S440000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07446906
ABSTRACT:
A fax to E-mail system and related method are shown, whereby a hardcopy document is sent via a fax device to its recipient via electronic mail through a data network (such as the Internet), and is delivered in such a manner that it can be retrieved by the recipient at an E-mail device, in the ordinary course of retrieving the E-mail, and displayed on the screen of the E-mail device. The invention provides for and accomplishes the delivery of a document, which begins as a hardcopy, as an electronic file retrieved through E-mail recipient's terminal and displayed on the computer screen of the E-mail recipient's terminal. The system and method also provides for an interface device which connects to a conventional fax device for communicating E-mail addresses and routing hardcopy documents to the E-mail network. The invention provides a means for embedding the functions of the interface device into conventional fax devices. The system can also be used in cooperation with Internet Web service for reporting, accounting, information services, and user interaction.
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