Processing a fax transmission using a mobile device
AssigneeAdvanced Messaging Technologies, Inc.
InventorsYehoshua Lehavi, Kirk Freeman, Luis Garcia Meza
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus are described for receiving a fax transmission at a mobile phone. In one embodiment, the mobile phone receives an incoming call and answers the incoming call, upon receiving a command from a user of the mobile phone to answer the incoming call. A program on the mobile phone then detects that the incoming call is a fax transmission, and then places an outgoing call to a fax server. The program on the mobile phone then conferences the incoming call with the outgoing call to the fax server, such that the fax server receives the fax transmission. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
Claims17
A method performed by a mobile phone for receiving a fax transmission, comprising:
- receiving an incoming call on the mobile phone;
- answering the incoming call;
- detecting that the incoming call is a fax transmission;
- placing an outgoing call to a fax server;
- and
- merging the incoming call with the outgoing call to the fax server such that the fax server receives the fax transmission.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium having stored therein instructions of a fax software program to be executed by a mobile phone, the instructions when executed by the mobile phone cause the mobile phone to:
- detect, after an incoming call to the mobile phone is answered, that the incoming call is a fax transmission or is not a fax transmission;
- if the incoming call is a fax transmission, place an outgoing call to a fax server and merge the incoming call with the outgoing call to the fax server such that the fax server receives the fax transmission;
- and
- if the incoming call is not a fax transmission, then the fax software program does not place an outgoing call to a fax server.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.