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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 29, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Adam N. Marx, Boulder, CO (US);
Assignee:
Qwest Communications Int'l., Inc., Denver, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and method provide for interfacing a facsimile machine with a computer network. Specifically, an apparatus provides a fax interface for exchanging faxes with fax machine and a network interface for communicating with and retrieving electronic documents from a computer network. The apparatus further includes a memory for storing the electronic documents received from the computer network and the faxed pages received from the fax machine and a controller for comparing the electronic documents to the faxed pages. The apparatus may be employed to retrieve various electronic documents from the computer network in response to received faxes.