Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Hewlett-packard Company

Richard G Lea

Michael P Prenn

Bruce M Young

Kevin C Hess

Jeffrey E Fall

The described system and procedure provides fax delivery services to a user that only has convenient access to a single-function networked printer device. To accomplish this, the system receives a facsimile sent to a telephone number. Responsive to receiving the facsimile, the facsimile is converted from a fax data format to a printable data format that is compatible with a printer device. Next, the converted facsimile is wrapped in a network transfer protocol language such as Hypertext Transfer Protocol to form a Web Page. Next, a Universal Resource Locator (URL) is identified that corresponds to the telephone number used to send the facsimile to the system. The URL identifies an embedded web server in a printer. Next, the Web page containing the converted facsimile is communicated to the identified embedded web server for printing by the printer.

System and method providing an embedded web server facsimile service

Disclosed is a method and apparatus for printing multiple original copies from a single transmission of one copy of a document from a document generating source. The invention employs a storage device within an image forming device to make an electronic copy of the document as the document is printed the first time. The image forming device then iteratively prints the desired number multiple original copies by reading successive print jobs from the storage device.

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Nampa, ID, United States of America

Richard G Lea