Secure system for delivery of a fax to a remote user
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorJames D. Crumly
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Abstract
A system for the remote retrieval of at least one document sent by facsimile transmission using a repository server for storing at least one document for a recipient at a location using a remote system connected to the system. Security apparatus for the system includes apparatus, such as a smartcard, to identify, to validate, and to locate a remote user of a remote system connected to the system when the user is connected to the repository server for retrieving at least one document stored by the repository server. Upon validation of identification of a user, any or all documents may be retrieved by a user.
Claims16
A system for providing secure delivery of documents sent by facsimile transmission to remote users, comprising:
- at least one remote system for documents sent by facsimile transmission including:
- security apparatus for identifying and for validating an identify of a user, the security apparatus including identification of a user before accepting a first document sent by facsimile transmission;
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- at least one repository server connected to the at least one remote system for storing at least one or more documents sent by facsimile transmission and for transmitting a first document sent by facsimile transmission to the remote system.
A repository server for documents transmitted by facsimile transmission for providing secure delivery of documents sent by facsimile transmission to users at remote locations, comprising:
- the repository server including:
- non-volatile storage medium apparatus for storing at least one document of a plurality of documents, the repository server for transmitting a set of validation information to a remote system for validating an identity of a user of the remote system and for transmitting a document sent by facsimile transmission to the remote system upon validating the identity of a user.
A remote system for the transmission of documents using facsimile transmission for providing the secure delivery of said documents to at least one remote user, said remote system comprising:
- security apparatus for identifying and for validating an identity of a user, the remote system for validating an identity of a user using the security apparatus before accepting a document sent by facsimile transmission for a user.
A method for providing secure delivery of documents sent by facsimile transmission from a system to a remote user of a remote system, comprising:
- providing at least one remote system for sending documents by facsimile transmission including:
- security apparatus for identifying and for validating an identify of a user, the security apparatus including identification of a user before accepting a first document sent by facsimile transmission;
- providing at least one repository server connected to the at least one remote system for storing at least one or more documents sent by facsimile transmission and for transmitting a first document sent by facsimile transmission to the remote system;
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- sending a document by facsimile transmission to said remote system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.