US 2018/0241913 A1Published application

High-Definition Facsimile Routing

AssigneeBiscom Inc.

InventorsS.K. Ho, Carlos Mainemer

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Abstract

A high-definition (HD) fax system routes outbound fax job requests including a high-resolution component to appropriate destinations, including among HD-enabled receiving devices and conventional fax devices. If it is determined that a fax destination is not HD-enabled, such as a conventional fax device, the high-resolution component of the outbound fax job request may be rendered as a low-resolution fax. The low resolution fax may be transmitted via a public switched telephone network (PSTN). On the other hand, if it is determined that a fax destination is HD-enabled, a determination may be made whether the HD-enabled fax destination is color enabled, and the high-resolution component may be rendered as either a high-resolution monochrome fax or a high-resolution color fax.

Claims62

Dependent claims

A method performed by at least one computer processor of a high-definition (HD) fax system, the method comprising:

(A) receiving an outbound fax job request, the outbound fax job request including a fax destination identifier and a high-resolution component;
(B) determining whether the fax destination identifier corresponds with an HD-enabled receiving device;
(C) if it is determined that the fax destination identifier does not correspond with the HD-enabled receiving device, rendering at least the high-resolution component of the outbound fax job request as a low-resolution fax, and transmitting the low-resolution fax via a public switched telephone network (PSTN);
(D) if it is determined that the fax destination identifier does correspond with the HD-enabled receiving device, determining whether the HD-enabled receiving device is HD color-enabled;
(E) if it is determined that the HD-enabled receiving device is not HD color-enabled, rendering at least the high-resolution component of the outbound fax job request as a high-resolution monochrome fax;
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(F) if it is determined that the HD-enabled receiving device is HD color-enabled, rendering at least the high-resolution component of the outbound fax job request as a high-resolution color fax.

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A high-definition (HD) fax system comprising at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium containing computer program instructions, wherein the computer program instructions are executable by at least one computer processor to perform a method, the method comprising:

(A) receiving an outbound fax job request, the outbound fax job request including a fax destination identifier and a high-resolution component;
(B) determining whether the fax destination identifier corresponds with an HD-enabled receiving device;
(C) if it is determined that the fax destination identifier does not correspond with the HD-enabled receiving device, rendering at least the high-resolution component of the outbound fax job request as a low-resolution fax, and transmitting the low-resolution fax via a public switched telephone network (PSTN);
(D) if it is determined that the fax destination identifier does correspond with the HD-enabled receiving device, determining whether the HD-enabled receiving device is HD color-enabled;
(E) if it is determined that the HD-enabled receiving device is not HD color-enabled, rendering at least the high-resolution component of the outbound fax job request as a high-resolution monochrome fax;
and if it is determined that the HD-enabled receiving device is HD color-enabled, rendering at least the high-resolution component of the outbound fax job request as a high-resolution color fax.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/469,167Filed 24 Mar 2017
Priority: 22 Feb 2017
Published: 23 Aug 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

H04N 1/00095
Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof: systems or arrangements for the…
H04N 1/6058
Colour correction or control: reduction of colour to a range of reproducible colours, e.g. to ink- reproducible colour gamut
H04N 1/00209
With a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server: transmitting or receiving image data, e.g. facsimile data, via a…
H04N 1/0022
Details of transmission: involving facsimile protocols or a combination of facsimile protocols and computer data transmission protocols