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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2007
Matthew K. Henry, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christopher L. Fortescue, San Francisco, CA (US);
John E. Warnock, Los Altos, CA (US);
Derek Crovo, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew K. Henry, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christopher L. Fortescue, San Francisco, CA (US);
John E. Warnock, Los Altos, CA (US);
Derek Crovo, San Francisco, CA (US);
MongoNet, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for a computer system for transmitting a facsimile to an e-mail destination, comprises receiving a facsimile transmission comprising an instruction page and a document page, wherein the instruction page includes an optical representation of an e-mail address, using an optical character recognition process to determine the e-mail address from the optical representation of the e-mail address, wherein the e-mail address need not be known to the computer system before receiving the facsimile transmission, converting the facsimile transmission into an e-mail attachment, and sending an e-mail message including the additional service provider data and the e-mail attachment to the e-mail address, wherein the additional service provider data is selected from a group consisting of: a service provider identifier, a service sponsor identifier.