System and method for sending, delivery and receiving of faxes
AssigneeOpen Text SA ULC
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.
Claims20
A method for faxing, comprising:
- receiving a request to send a first fax at a set of services embodied on at least one server machine deployed at a location remote from a user's site, wherein the request was sent from a first fax connector at the user's site over a computer based network;
- receiving, at the set of services, a first document and a first destination telephone number associated with the first fax from the user's site over the computer based network;
- sending the first fax from the location remote from the user's site to the first destination telephone number over a publicly switched telephone network (PSTN) via the set of services;
- receiving a second fax at the set of services over the PSTN;
- receiving, at the set of services, a second document and a second destination telephone number associated with the second fax over the computer based network;
- determining a fax connector identifier associated with the second destination telephone number;
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- sending the second document to a second fax connector associated with the fax connector identifier over the computer based network.
A method for faxing, comprising:
- receiving a request to send a first fax at a set of services embodied on one or more server machines deployed at a location remote from a user's site, wherein the request was sent from a first fax connector at the user's site over a computer based network, the first fax connector associated with a fax connector identifier;
- receiving a first document and a first destination telephone number associated with the first fax from the user's site over the computer based network;
- sending the first fax from the location remote from the user's site to the first destination telephone number over a publicly switched telephone network (PSTN) via the set of services;
- receiving a second fax at the set of services, wherein the second fax was received over the PSTN at the fax service and was sent to the set of services over the computer based network;
- receiving, at the set of services, a second document and a second destination telephone number associated with the second fax over the computer based network, the second destination telephone number associated with the fax connector identifier;
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- sending the second document to the first fax connector over the computer based network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.