System and method for sending, delivery and receiving of faxes
AssigneeOpen Text SA ULC
InventorsTreber Rebert, Jonathan Isabelle, Michael Riedel
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Abstract
Embodiments of systems and methods for the sending, delivery and receiving of faxes are disclosed herein. In particular, certain embodiments include a fax connector that may be deployed at a user's site, and a faxing system that may be deployed remotely from the user's site. The fax connector can be accessed at the user's site over a computer based network in order to perform functions associated with faxing, including sending, receiving and obtaining status on faxes. The fax connector deployed at the user's site communicates with the remotely deployed faxing system to send, receive, obtain status on, or perform other functions associated with, faxing.
Claims26
A system for faxing, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising instructions for executing on the processor to implement a set of services deployed at a location remote from a user's site, the instructions for:
- receiving a request to send a first fax associated with a first document and a first destination telephone number at the set of services, wherein the request was sent from a first fax connector at the user's site over a computer based network;
- sending the first fax from the location remote from the user's site to the first destination telephone number over a publicly switched telephone network (PSTN) via the set of services;
- receiving a second fax associated with a second document and a second destination telephone number at the set of services over the computer based network;
- determining a fax connector identifier associated with the second destination telephone number associated with the second fax by accessing a mapping of telephone numbers to fax connector identifiers, wherein the fax connector identifier is associated with a second fax connector deployed at the user's site;
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- sending the second document to the second fax connector associated with the fax connector identifier and deployed at the user's site over the computer based network.
A method for faxing, comprising:
- at a set of services deployed at a location remote from a user's site:
- receiving a request to send a first fax associated with a first document and a first destination telephone number at the set of services, wherein the request was sent from a first fax connector at the user's site over a computer based network;
- sending the first fax from the location remote from the user's site to the first destination telephone number over a publicly switched telephone network (PSTN) via the set of services;
- receiving a second fax associated with a second document and a second destination telephone number at the set of services over the computer based network;
- determining a fax connector identifier associated with the second destination telephone number associated with the second fax by accessing a mapping of telephone numbers to fax connector identifiers, wherein the fax connector identifier is associated with a second fax connector deployed at the user's site;
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- sending the second document to the second fax connector associated with the fax connector identifier and deployed at the user's site over the computer based network.
A non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising instructions for implementing a set of services deployed at a location remote from a user's site, the instructions including instructions for:
- receiving a request to send a first fax associated with a first document and a first destination telephone number at the set of services, wherein the request was sent from a first fax connector at the user's site over a computer based network;
- sending the first fax from the location remote from the user's site to the first destination telephone number over a publicly switched telephone network (PSTN) via the set of services;
- receiving a second fax associated with a second document and a second destination telephone number at the set of services over the computer based network;
- determining a fax connector identifier associated with the second destination telephone number associated with the second fax by accessing a mapping of telephone numbers to fax connector identifiers, wherein the fax connector identifier is associated with a second fax connector deployed at the user's site;
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- sending the second document to the second fax connector associated with the fax connector identifier and deployed at the user's site over the computer based network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.