System and method for sending, delivery and receiving of faxes through computer based networks with a publicly switched telephone network as a backup

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8995025-B2
Application number	US-201213485140-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 31, 2012
Priority date	Jun 27, 2011
Publication date	Mar 31, 2015
Grant date	Mar 31, 2015

Abstract

Embodiment of systems and methods for the sending, delivery or receiving of faxes are disclosed herein. In particular, certain embodiments include a fax connector that may be deployed at users' sites, and a fax registration system that may be deployed remotely from these users' site. The fax connector can be accessed at a 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 a sending user's site communicates with the fax registration system to obtain destination data associated with a recipient user's fax connector and transmits the fax to the destination fax connector over the computer based network based on the destination data obtained from the registration system. The fax can then be presented to the recipient at the recipient user's site.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for faxing, comprising:
a computer device with a processor, wherein the computer device is coupled to a fax registration system over a network and the computer device comprises a computer readable memory having instructions executable for implementing a fax connector configured for:
receiving at a sending fax system, from a separate client device, a request to send a fax to a destination on a publicly switched telephone network (PSTN);
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Assignees

• Rebert Treber
• Open Text SA

Inventors

• Rebert Treber

Classifications

• H04N1/0001

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N1/32614

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N1/00082

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N1/32619 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N1/00217

  Electricity · mapped topic