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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2003
Amin El-gazzar, Key Biscayne, FL (US);
Hartmut Wolf, Miami Beach, FL (US);
Adrian Puente, Miami, FL (US);
Alexander M. Nolasco, Hialeah Gardens, FL (US);
Amin El-Gazzar, Key Biscayne, FL (US);
Hartmut Wolf, Miami Beach, FL (US);
Adrian Puente, Miami, FL (US);
Alexander M. Nolasco, Hialeah Gardens, FL (US);
Venali, Inc., Coral Gables, FL (US);
Abstract
A spam fax filter which has been configured in accordance with the present invention can include a fax transformation processor configured to transform rasterized fax images into non-rasterized representations of fax images. The spam fax filter further can include a knowledge base of known spam characteristics. Finally, the spam fax filter can include a comparator configured to compare non-rasterized representations of fax images produced by the fax transformation processor to the characteristics in the knowledge base to detect spam fax in the spam fax filter.