System and method for sending, delivery or receiving of faxes, over a computer based network according to security or other protocols
AssigneeOpen Text SA ULC
InventorBrian Lee Lennstrom
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Abstract
Embodiments of systems and methods for the sending, delivery and receiving of faxes according to particular protocols are disclosed. Certain embodiments may receive a fax from a sender and determine if the ability exists to send the fax over a computer based network according to a particular protocol. If there is no destination associated with the fax number for the protocol the fax may be sent according to the fax number. If, however, there is a destination for the protocol associated with the fax number an attempt is made to send the fax to the destination according to the protocol.
Claims21
A system for sending a fax as a Direct message, comprising:
- a faxing system configured to send a fax, the faxing system including a traffic manager, wherein
- the traffic manager includes a non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions for:
- determining that there is a Direct address associated with a destination telephone number for a received fax, wherein the Direct address is an email address linked to an associated certificate that confirms the identity of a domain name or address;
- initiating a sending of a Direct message with a document of the fax to the Direct address associated with the destination telephone number for the received fax;
- determining if a delivery failure notification is received in response to the sending of the Direct message to the Direct address associated with the destination telephone number for the received fax;
- and
- when the message delivery failure notification is received, initiating the sending of the document of the fax to the destination telephone number over a Publicly Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) or over a computer network to an email address associated with the destination telephone number.
A method, comprising:
- determining that there is a Direct address associated with a destination telephone number for a received fax, wherein the Direct address is an email address linked to an associated certificate that confirms the identity of a domain name or address;
- initiating a sending of a Direct message with a document of the fax to the Direct address associated with the destination telephone number for the received fax;
- determining if a delivery failure notification is received in response to the sending of the Direct message to the Direct address associated with the destination telephone number for the received fax;
- and
- when the message delivery failure notification is received, initiating the sending of the document of the fax to the destination telephone number over a Publicly Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) or over a computer network to an email address associated with the destination telephone number.
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions for:
- determining that there is a Direct address associated with a destination telephone number for a received fax, wherein the Direct address is an email address linked to an associated certificate that confirms the identity of a domain name or address;
- initiating a sending of a Direct message with a document of the fax to the Direct address associated with the destination telephone number for the received fax;
- determining if a delivery failure notification is received in response to the sending of the Direct message to the Direct address associated with the destination telephone number for the received fax;
- and
- when the message delivery failure notification is received, initiating the sending of the document of the fax to the destination telephone number over a Publicly Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) or over a computer network to an email address associated with the destination telephone number.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.