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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2004
Ariel Peled, Even-Yehuda, IL;
Guy Lupo, Tel Aviv, IL;
Lidror Troyansky, Givataim, IL;
Arik Baratz, Hadera, IL;
Ofir Carny, Kochav-Yair, IL;
Oren Tirosh, Hod HaSharon, IL;
Ariel Peled, Even-Yehuda, IL;
Guy Lupo, Tel Aviv, IL;
Lidror Troyansky, Givataim, IL;
Arik Baratz, Hadera, IL;
Ofir Carny, Kochav-Yair, IL;
Oren Tirosh, Hod HaSharon, IL;
PortAuthority Technologies Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
According to a first aspect of the present invention, a method for enforcing a distribution policy with respect to information transmitted from a sending fax machine to a recipient fax machine as fax traffic is presented. The method comprising defining an information distribution policy with respect to the fax traffic, then monitoring the fax traffic in accordance with the distribution policy, where the monitoring comprising: (i) de-modulating the fax traffic being monitored into a digital stream; (ii) reconstructing from the digital stream a graphic image representing at least part of the information within the fax traffic; and (iii) analyzing information within the reconstructed image, and then applying the distribution policy with respect to the analyzed fax traffic.