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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 18, 1998
Yukikazu Mori, Ebina, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A network facsimile apparatus relaying electronic mail to a facsimile machine receives electronic mail via a local area network and the Internet and transmits facsimile data including facsimile image information and a facsimile data file through facsimile communications procedures via PSTN. The network facsimile apparatus analyzes the received E-mail to determine if it is relay transmission mail and if received relay transmission mail includes text contents, reads a telephone number of a destination facsimile machine from the received relay transmission mail, and converts the contents of the received electronic mail into facsimile image information when the received E-mail is a relay transmission mail and includes text contents and into a facsimile transfer data file when the. received E-mail is relay transmission mail and includes non-text contents and transmits one of the facsimile image information and the facsimile transfer data file to the destination facsimile machine having the telephone number read from the received relay transmission mall