System and Method for Guaranteed High Speed Fax Delivery with a Fax Adapter
AssigneeAxacore, Inc.
InventorNicholas J. Basil
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Abstract
A fax processing system improving the speed and reliability of fax transmissions by providing a new method of transmitting facsimile images, by encoding fax images with an embedded non-facsimile-communication-protocol/non-facsimile-image digital data bit signal using a fax ATA adapter that is connected to a facsimile device, where the signal bit is recognized by fax software at a fax service such that the original image data is transferred to the fax service via a secure link over a data communications network with notification by the fax service software.
Claims19
A facsimile system for the real-time guaranteed delivery of facsimile image data at data communications speeds comprising:
- a facsimile ATA device further comprising the capability to encode non-facsimile-communication-protocol/non-facsimile-image digital data bits in image document, and to stream the facsimile image data over a data communications network;
- a software decoder program on non-transitory computer readable medium capable of:
- authenticating the non-facsimile-communication-protocol/non-facsimile-image digital data bits in the image data sent from the software encoder program;
- and wherein the facsimile ATA device is operably coupled to the software decoder program such that the software decoder program:
- reduces the facsimile transmission speed;
- establishes a secure internet link to stream the facsimile image data via internet connection;
- determines that the image data is completely received, sends a T.30 confirmation signal to the software encoder program, such that the sender is notified of the completion of the facsimile transmission.
A method of guaranteed real time delivery of facsimile image data at data communications speeds comprising the steps of:
- a fax ATA adapter encoding non-facsimile-communication-protocol/non-facsimile-image digital data;
- a software decoder program:
- authenticating non-facsimile-communication-protocol/not-facsimile-digital data sent from the software encoder program;
- and slowing down the data communications speed;
- establishing a secure internet link to stream the facsimile image data via internet connection;
- determining that the image data is completely received, and sending a T.30 confirmation signal to the fax ATA adapter to complete the guaranteed real time delivery of facsimile image data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.