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US 4,918,722 AGranted
Control of electronic information delivery
AssigneeBrooktrout Technology, Inc.
InventorsDavid W. Duehren, Eric R. Giler, Stephen A. Ide
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Abstract
Delivery of binary encoded character data and facsimile encoded data to a specified recipient is controlled rapidly, simply, and with versatility, by, e.g., DTMF commands sent by a user.
Claims5
A method for causing a selected message to be sent from a first location to any specified remote location accessible from the first location via the public switched telephone system, comprising
- storing, at the first location, messages including the selected message,
- thereafter, receiving at the first location, via the public switched telephone system, delivery commands issued by any remote telephone device, said commands identifying said selected message and said specified remote location,
- decoding said commands to identify the selected message and the specified remote location,
- fetching said selected message from among said messages,
- initiating a telephone call to said specified remote location, and
- sending to a facsimile-capable receiving device at said specified remote location via the public switched telephone system said selected message in facsimile compatible form.
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