At+t Corp.

Nadine K Grasty

Bruce E McNair

Alan Ira Schwartz

Alok K Gupta

Edward S Chang

A facility is provided which implements a 'hold-for-pickup' function in the delivery of a data message, e.g., a facsimile. Particularly, the facility associates a data message that it receives from a sender with a respective confirmation number and sends the confirmation number to the sender. Thereafter, the facility transmits the message only to a receiver who enters the confirmation number when requested to do so. The facility also provides a number of other features, such as allowing the sender to specify the number of receivers that will receive the data message. Another feature associates a received data message with a plurality of confirmation numbers. In this way, a user may associate the confirmation numbers with respective receivers. The receivers may then obtain a copy of the sender's data message from the facility by entering their respective confirmation numbers when requested to do so.

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Warren, NJ, United States of America

Nadine K Grasty