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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2000
Kevin Wayne Kirkeby, Rochester, MN (US);
Kevin Wayne Kirkeby, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a system, method, and program for processing a message in a network computing system including a facsimile transmission comprised of a recipient contact address, such as a telephone number, e-mail address, network address, etc., and message content The message content includes at least one of message text and attached files. A first computing system manages the facsimile transmission as a fax job and transfers the message content to a second computing system. The second computing system launches at least one application program to convert the message content to at least one image in a file format and transfers the converted message content in the file format to the first computing system. The first computing system transfers the message content in the file format to a communication port for transmittal to the recipient contact address.