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US 2007/0168557 A1Published application
Fax-to-email and email-to-fax communication system and method
AssigneeMongoNet
InventorMatthew Henry
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Abstract
A facsimile/email communication system and method providing a user the ability to send emails from any standalone facsimile machine and providing a user the ability to logon to a centralized web server and send facsimiles to any standalone fax machine.
Claims22
(canceled)
A method for sending an e-mail message comprises:
- receiving a transmission instruction page;
- entering a plurality of text entries from a user on the transmission instruction page to form a filled-in transmission instruction page, wherein the plurality of text entries includes an e-mail address;
- sending a facsimile to a facsimile server, wherein the facsimile includes the filled-in transmission instruction page;
- wherein the facsimile server converts the facsimile into an e-mail attachment;
- wherein the facsimile server sends the e-mail message including additional service provider data and the e-mail attachment to the e-mail address;
- wherein the facsimile server optically derives the e-mail address from the transmission instruction page of the facsimile;
- and
- wherein facsimile server need not know the e-mail address prior to receiving the facsimile.
5 more elements
A method for sending an electronic communication to an electronic destination comprises:
- receiving a transmission instruction page comprising a plurality of data fields;
- manually entering a plurality of text entries from a user to the plurality of data fields on the transmission instruction page to form a filled-in transmission instruction page, wherein the plurality of text entries comprises an electronic address associated with the electronic destination;
- manually sending a digitized representation of the filled-in transmission instruction page encoded in a first transmission format to a transmission server;
- wherein the transmission server converts the digitized representation of the filled-in transmission instruction page to a second transmission format;
- wherein the transmission server sends the electronic communication including additional service provider data and the filled-in transmission instruction page in the second transmission format to the electronic destination;
- wherein the transmission server optically derives the electronic address from the filled-in transmission instruction page;
- and
- wherein transmission server need not know the electronic address prior to receiving the digitized representation of the filled-in transmission instruction page.
5 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.