System and method for sending, delivery and receiving of faxes using a remotely deployed fax service or system
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.
Claims21
A method for faxing, comprising:
- providing an interface for a first fax connector at a site of a user, the interface for:
- receiving a request from the user, the request for sending a first fax of a first document to a first destination telephone number;
- and
- initiating transmission of the request over a computer based network to a set of services deployed at a location remote from the site of the user, the request including the first document and the first destination telephone number, the set of services configured to send the first fax from the location remote from the site of the user to the destination telephone number over a publicly switched telephone network (PSTN), the set of services configured to receive a second fax over the PSTN, a second document and a second destination telephone number associated with the second fax over the computer based network, and send the second document to a second fax connector associated with a fax connector identifier over the computer based network.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions for:
- providing an interface for a first fax connector at a site of a user, the interface for:
- receiving a request from the user, the request for sending a first fax of a first document to a first destination telephone number;
- and
- initiating transmission of the request over a computer based network to a set of services deployed at a location remote from the site of the user, the request including the first document and the first destination telephone number, the set of services configured to send the first fax from the location remote from the site of the user to the destination telephone number over a publicly switched telephone network (PSTN), the set of services configured to receive a second fax over the PSTN, a second document and a second destination telephone number associated with the second fax over the computer based network, and send the second document to a second fax connector associated with a fax connector identifier over the computer based network.
A system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions for:
- providing an interface for a first fax connector at a site of a user, the interface for:
- receiving a request from the user, the request for sending a first fax of a first document to a first destination telephone number;
- and
- initiating transmission of the request over a computer based network to a set of services deployed at a location remote from the site of the user, the request including the first document and the first destination telephone number, the set of services configured to send the first fax from the location remote from the site of the user to the destination telephone number over a publicly switched telephone network (PSTN), the set of services configured to receive a second fax over the PSTN, a second document and a second destination telephone number associated with the second fax over the computer based network, and send the second document to a second fax connector associated with a fax connector identifier over the computer based network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.