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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 1997
Filed:
Sep. 06, 1994
Shin'ichi Hashimoto, Yokohama, JP;
Tomihisa Hatano, Yokohama, JP;
Kazuhiro Umemura, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroshi Kawamura, Yokohama, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A facsimile receiving processing unit in a facsimile server terminal receives and stores facsimile data in a data storage unit. A receiving-end user issues a request for accessing the received facsimile data stored in the data storage unit through a received facsimile accessing unit in a client terminal to a received facsimile manager in the facsimile server terminal. At the time when the received facsimile data is accessed for the first time, a response data creating unit in the facsimile server terminal automatically creates response data which indicates that the facsimile data has been accessed at the receiving end, and then the response data is sent back to the sending-end facsimile machine by a facsimile transmission processing unit in the facsimile server terminal. This allows the sending-end user to recognize whether the facsimile data has actually been accessed by the receiving-end user.