System and method for providing communications
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsDaniel Gureasko Bobrow, Larry Melvin Masinter
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Abstract
A method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for converting messages includes stations coupled to facsimile devices and to client machines by a network to allow users at the client machines to communicate with users at the facsimile devices. In addition, the stations include processors for extracting information from messages sent by users at the facsimile devices and received by the stations, using the extracted information to convert the messages, and sending the converted messages through the network to the users at the client machines.
Claims21
A method of converting messages, comprising:
- extracting encoded information from a facsimile communicated through a facsimile communication medium, the encoded information having at least one recipient address information and at least one processing instruction thereon;
- converting the facsimile to create an e-mail based upon the extracted encoded information;
- and
- transmitting at least a substantial portion of the e-mail to at least one recipient identified in the address information.
A system for converting messages, comprising:
- at least one station coupled to a facsimile communication medium;
- and
- at least one processor coupled to the at least one station, the at least one processor for executing a program of instructions for extracting encoded information from a facsimile communicated through the facsimile communication medium, the encoded information having at least one recipient address information and at least one processing instruction encoded thereon, converting the facsimile to create an e-mail based upon the extracted encoded information, and transmitting at least a substantial portion of the e-mail to at least one recipient identified in the address information.
A program storage device readable by a machine tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform a method of converting messages, comprising:
- extracting encoded information from a facsimile communicated through a facsimile communication medium, the encoded information having at least one recipient address information and at least one processing instruction thereon;
- converting the facsimile to create an e-mail based upon the extracted encoded information;
- and
- transmitting at least a substantial portion of the e-mail to at least one recipient identified in the address information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.