System and Method for Sending, Delivery and Receiving of Faxes
AssigneeOpen Text Corporation
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.
Claims18
A method for faxing, comprising:
- receiving over a computer based network, at a set of services deployed at a location remote from a user's site, a document and a destination telephone number associated with a fax from a first fax connector at the user's site;
- determining if there is fax connector identifier associated with the destination telephone number;
- if there is a first fax connector identifier associated with the first destination telephone number:
- sending the document to a second fax connector associated with the fax connector identifier over the computer based network;
- and
- if there is not a fax connector identifier associated with the destination telephone number:
- sending the document from the location remote from the user's site to the destination telephone number over a publicly switched telephone network (PSTN) via the set of services.
A system for faxing, comprising:
- a computing platform deployed remotely from a user's site, the computing platform including:
- an interface with a publicly switched telephone network (PSTN) an interface with a computer based network;
- and
- a set of services executing on a processor of the computing platform, the set of services:
- receiving, over the computer based network, a document and a destination telephone number associated with a fax from a first fax connector at the user's site;
- determining if there is fax connector identifier associated with the destination telephone number;
- if there is a first fax connector identifier associated with the first destination telephone number:
- sending the document to a second fax connector associated with the fax connector identifier over the computer based network;
- and
- if there is not a fax connector identifier associated with the destination telephone number:
- sending the document from the location remote from the user's site to the destination telephone number over a publicly switched telephone network (PSTN) via the set of services.
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions for:
- receiving over a computer based network, at a set of services deployed at a location remote from a user's site, a document and a destination telephone number associated with a fax from a first fax connector at the user's site;
- determining if there is fax connector identifier associated with the destination telephone number;
- if there is a first fax connector identifier associated with the first destination telephone number:
- sending the document to a second fax connector associated with the fax connector identifier over the computer based network;
- and
- if there is not a fax connector identifier associated with the destination telephone number:
- sending the document from the location remote from the user's site to the destination telephone number over a publicly switched telephone network (PSTN) via the set of services.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.