Method and telecommunications system for transmitting a facsimile message

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer program instructions for transmitting a facsimile message, the computer program instructions, when executed on a processor, cause the processor to perform a method comprising:

• detecting an initiation of a telephone call from an originating party to a destination, the content of the telephone call comprising a facsimile message;
• determining a destination condition for the destination at a first time;
• in response to determining the destination condition at the first time is one of “busy” and “no_answer”:
• determining during the telephone call whether a voice message will be left by the originating party;
• launching a routing message to route the telephone call to a messaging platform in response to determining that the voice message will be left by the originating party;
• and
• storing the voice message on the messaging platform in response to routing the telephone call to the messaging platform.

A system comprising:

• a memory storing computer program instructions;
• and
• a processor communicatively coupled to the memory, the processor configured to execute the computer program instructions, which, when executed, cause the processor to perform a method comprising:
• detecting an initiation of a telephone call from an originating party to a destination, the content of the telephone call comprising a facsimile message;
• determining a destination condition for the destination at a first time;
• in response to determining the destination condition at the first time is one of “busy” and “no_answer”:
• determining during the telephone call whether a voice message will be left by the originating party;
• launching a routing message to route the telephone call to a messaging platform in response to determining that the voice message will be left by the originating party;
• and
• storing the voice message on the messaging platform in response to routing the telephone call to the messaging platform.