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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 12, 1998
Anand Narasimhan, Beverly Hills, CA (US);
Yaacov Shemesh, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Amit Kumar, Los Angeles, CA (US);
j2 Global Communications, Inc., Hollywood, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for supporting a message delivery service, a method for supporting such a service and a machine accessible medium containing program data for implementing such a system. A number of processing servers are coupled to communicate with a number of outbound resources and a database server over an internal packet-switched data network. The database server contains account information on customers of the service. Request messages received from a customer over an external packet-switched data network are stored in a queue of a processing server. A router filter obtains a request message from the queue and validates a customer associated with the request message, after accessing the database server. A determination is made as to which of the multiple outbound resources to assign the request message. Each of these resources is capable of converting an input request message into a format capable of being received by a fax machine over a telephone network.