106 results about "Internet fax" patented technology

In an Internet fax, to receive an electronic mail document for fax transfer, if a password related to a control command for indicating a facsimile communication function is encrypted and set in the destination field or the main body of the received electronic mail, the encrypted password is decrypted and using the decrypted password, facsimile transfer of the electronic mail document is executed following the control command.

A data terminal which is coupled to an local area network and a public switched telephone network includes a sub-address generator that generates a sub-address based on an electronic mail address and a predetermined functional operation method. A data table generator generates an address conversion table correlating a plurality of sub-addresses to corresponding input electronic mail addresses. Each of the plurality of sub-addresses being uniquely coupled with a corresponding electronic mail address that is uniquely assigned to a single client terminal. The data terminal also includes memory to store the address conversion table and a terminal controller. The terminal controller checks an incoming call from a facsimile machine containing facsimile image information and a sub-address representing a destination client terminal, and upon receiving such incoming facsimile image information and sub-address, the controller determines an electronic mail address corresponding to the sub-address using the address conversion table. The controller then relays the facsimile image information to the destination client terminal at the determined appropriate electronic mail address.

A network fax machine for faxing files received from a remote client includes a server unit and a fax control unit. The server unit sends a fax document form to a remote client and receives fax information from the remote client. The fax information includes an identifier corresponding to a destination fax machine and a file to be faxed to the destination fax machine. The fax control unit is configured to use the identifier to connect the network fax machine to the destination fax machine and configured to send the file to the destination fax machine by facsimile communication.

The network facsimile apparatus is able to communicate using both a public switched telephone network and a computer network, and has a facsimile section which transmits and receives an image via the public switched telephone network, a mail section which transmits and receives an e-mail via the computer network, a web server which transmits a reply to a client in response to a request from the client that is connected to said network apparatus via said computer network, a storage which is to store received, and a list generating section which generates a structured document of reception list. When the web server receives an operation request concerning a reception list from a client, the web server provides the received operation request to the list generating section.

In this communication system, a terminal is connected through a network to a network facsimile apparatus which is a network connection type and has communication and printing functions, a printer driver for the network facsimile at the terminal directly receives various instructions (transmission, printing and registration) for a document opened at the terminal to transfer the instruction and the document to the network facsimile apparatus, and the network facsimile apparatus transmits the document which is instructed to transmit using the communication function.

A network facsimile system is configured such that telephone numbers which a relay server can user are assigned to communication terminals. When a image is transmitted from the communication terminals to destinations outside the network facsimile system via the relaying server, the assigned telephone numbers are used as station signal numbers. When an image is transmitted to the relaying server from origins outside the network facsimile system, destination communication terminals are identified based on the telephone numbers assigned thereto and receiving telephone numbers. Then, the image received by the relaying server is transmitted to the identified communication terminals.

This network facsimile apparatus has WWW server section 12, generates a send instruction page for simultaneous transmission in structured document to provide in homepage format to client 202, and performs simultaneous transmission of image data from WWW server section 12 based on data entered on the send instruction page for simultaneous transmission.

Methods and systems for processing outbound fax messages in an efficient and scalable manner are provided. According to one embodiment, an Internet fax system receives a request to deliver a fax message. Source files representing content to be included as part of the fax message are stored to a shared storage area accessible by imaging systems and fax processing resources. An imaging system is selected to convert the source files into a digital representation suitable for faxing. A work request identifying the selected imaging system is stored on a centralized work queue within a database. The imaging systems poll the centralized work queue to retrieve pending work requests. Responsive to identifying the work request, the selected imaging system converts the source files, associates the resulting digital representation with an outbound fax job and causes the fax message to be delivered by submitting the outbound fax job to a fax modem.

In a network facsimile communication system including Internet fax devices and a server, the Internet fax devices have both a capability of exchanging fax images over a public switched telephone network PSTN and a capability of exchanging messages over the Internet. The server has a file transfer capability and is provided on the Internet. A called Internet fax device sends, upon incoming of a call from the PSTN, an Internet fax indication to a calling Internet fax device, the indication indicating that the called device has an Internet fax capability. The calling Internet fax device sends, after the Internet fax indication is received, an universal resource locator URL, indicating a location of the server on the Internet as a destination of a fax image, to the called Internet fax device, releases the call from the PSTN, and transmits the fax image to the server corresponding to the URL. The called Internet fax device accesses the server on the Internet by using the received URL, so that the called Internet fax device receives the fax image from the server.

A network facsimile apparatus for providing session control based on a session control protocol, comprising:

• • a storage section for storing information for identifying the own network facsimile apparatus, and identifying information for identifying a network facsimile apparatus other than the own apparatus; and a registration section for registering proxy destination information in a SIP server arranged on a network, the proxy destination information links the identifying information of the apparatus other than the own apparatus stored in the storage section with the identifying information of own apparatus.

A network facsimile machine accepts a transmission instruction of image data from a terminal device. The network facsimile machine presents to a remote device, identification information of the terminal device that carried out the transmission instruction of the image data and acquires destination information as a response. The network facsimile machine transmits information relating to a transmission job of the image data to a terminal device of the acquired destination information.

A method, system and computer program product for storing document information in an application service provider (ASP) which is connected to a user terminal through a network, such as the Internet. The method on which the system and computer program product are based includes inputting the document information into the user terminal, inputting a previously created e-mail address into the user terminal, the e-mail address being confirmed by the ASP and corresponding to a storage location in the ASP, and sending the document information to the e-mail address via the network. The document information may be input into the user terminal either manually or automatically and a storage folder may be created for storing documents to the ASP. Where the user terminal is an Internet fax machine, the Internet fax machine can be set up to automatically send all document information received by the Internet fax machine to the ASP for storage.

A network facsimile system including a relaying server and a communication terminal connected through a network. The relaying server has a facsimile communication system, an image data creating system, an information obtaining system, and a relaying server side data communication system. Further, the communication terminal includes a communication terminal side data communication system and an image data processing system. The relaying server includes a status setting system that sets an operational status of the network facsimile system to a receivable state where the communication terminal can receive the image through the relaying server when the communication terminal has become usable by a user of the communication terminal.

A system, method, and computer program product for transmission of facsimiles via the Internet. An Internet fax driver is installed on a computer to send a document converted to an image using an electronic mail message over the Internet to an Internet fax machine. The electronic mail message, or fax request, can be either to Print a Document which is printed at the Internet fax machine or to Fax a Document which is sent from the Internet fax machine to a destination G3 fax machine designated by the user. Exemplary embodiments of the Internet fax driver include a driver which automatically converts a document to an image and a driver that allows the user to select a document already an image to send.

Methods and systems for processing inbound fax messages in an efficient and scalable manner are provided. According to one embodiment, an inbound fax call is received at a telecommunications system of an Internet fax system. The inbound fax call includes a source and destination address and a fax signal. The inbound fax call is switched to a call mediation system, which determines desired technical call processing capabilities for processing the fax signal. A subset of fax processing resources that have the desired technical call processing capabilities are identified from among multiple fax processing resources associated with the call mediation system. The inbound fax call is switched to a selected fax processing resource of the identified subset. The fax signal is translated by the selected fax processing resource into a digital representation. And, the digital representation is made available to one or more users associated with the particular subscriber.

By memorizing communication performance information of a destination machine captured in a previous transmission, the transmission is usually carried out using the communication performance of the destination machine memorized in destination machine performance memorizing device 25. However, in case a redirect response is returned from SIP server 10 when transmitting, the communication performance information is newly exchanged with the destination machine indicated by the redirect response, and then the transmission is carried out based on the communication performance information captured in the exchange. Or the transmission is carried out with default (standard) setting without exchanging the communication performance information.

The network facsimile apparatus is able to communicate using both a public switched telephone network and a computer network, and has a facsimile section which transmits and receives an image via the public switched telephone network, a network communication section which transmits and receives data via the computer network, a storage which is to store received data and a structured document, a web server which transmits received data or a structured document to the computer network, and a reception list generating section which generates a structured document of reception list indicative of document information of received data.

A communication apparatus is adapted to carry out a real-time network facsimile communication with an other party's apparatus via a packet network based on ITU-T Recommendations T.38. The communication apparatus is provided with an attribute information acquiring part to acquire other party's attribute information that indicates an attribute of the other party's apparatus, from a call connection message that is exchanged with the other party's apparatus in a predetermined call connection procedure carried out prior to a start of the real-time network facsimile communication, and a communication control part to control the real-time network facsimile communication depending on contents of the other party's attribute information acquired by the attribute information acquiring part.

The invention provides a network fax converter comprising an exchanger PBX and a Fax/Voice modem, wherein, interfaces of the exchanger PBX are respectively connected with the Fax/Voice modem, an exterior line of a telephone and an internal telephone line, the other end of the modem is connected with a computer which is connected with an Internet; and a file format conversion module, an e-mail address generation module, an e-mail generation module, a sending module and a configuration management module are arranged in the computer. The invention further provides a central network fax service system which uses the network fax converter, and the system also comprises a fax machine, a special mail server, a SMS server, and the like. The invention aims at providing the network fax converter and the central network fax service system which can send a fax to all the people who own mobile phone numbers around the world by utilizing a standard fax machine without the need of local access number, the user who receives the fax does not need to register in advance, the fax can be received around the world for free, and the sending or the receiving of the fax can be fully electronic.