Intelligent Fax Retransmission System and Method

A facsimile system for the intelligent retransmission of incomplete facsimile transmissions comprising:

• a software encoder program on computer readable medium comprising the capability to encode non-facsimile-communication-protocol/non-facsimile-image digital data bits in the facsimile image data, the digital data bits comprising one or more of the following:
• the number of pages in the facsimile image data, a unique identifier of the facsimile image data, a unique identifier of the software encoder program, the date and time of the facsimile transmission;
• a software decoder program on computer readable medium capable of:
• authenticating the non-facsimile-communication-protocol/non-facsimile-image digital data bits in the facsimile image data sent from the software encoder program;
• the software decoder program further informing the software encoder program of the number of pages of a facsimile image received;
• the software encoder program further capable of authenticating the number of pages of a facsimile image that were successfully transmitted, and in the case of an incomplete facsimile transmission, initiating a retransmission of the facsimile image data commencing with the first page that was not successfully transmitted to the receiving destination.