62 results about "Facsimile Number" patented technology

Methods, devices, signals, and systems are provided in a message routing architecture which provides improved capabilities for integrating “digital” communication through email messages with “analog” communication through voice and / or fax or pager messages. Email can be addressed using nothing more than a standard telephone or fax number. If the registered owner of the telephone or fax number has a corresponding email address, then the invention converts the telephone or fax number to the email address for delivery and uses standard email delivery systems to deliver the message. If no conventional delivery email address is known, or if the message sender or recipient specify multiple delivery modes, then the email message content is transformed into voice, pager and / or fax content and delivered to the recipient using the telephone or fax number which was specified as the email address. Familiar telecommunications services such as call forwarding and selective call blocking can also be used with messages that originate as email. The invention also supports use of telecommunications numbers as indexes into databases which contain public key certificates, to make it unnecessary for a proposed message recipient to provide its public key expressly in advance to each particular proposed message originator.

A method and apparatus for implementing a heuristic user interface for a mobile device that assists a user with the management and utilization of contact identifiers (e.g. phone numbers, facsimile numbers, email addresses and uniform resource identifiers (URIs)). Content stored on or being processed by a mobile device is analyzed for the presence of predetermined classes of contact identifiers. When a contact identifier belonging to one of the predetermined classes is encountered, it is presented to the user of the mobile device on the display screen and the user interface of the mobile device is provisioned (e.g., softkey assignments and screen displays) for the particular class of contact identifier encountered. The encountered contact identifiers may be used as direct contact identifiers or indirect contact identifiers. Direct contact identifiers are used to initialize the appropriate application for the class of identifier encountered (e.g. an email application for an email contact identifier) and establish contact with an associated entity (e.g. an email addressee). Indirect contact identifiers are used to retrieve locally and remotely held records containing the encountered contact identifiers.

The present invention involves a Universal Geographic Database (“UGD”). The UGD is an automated, central or distributed, registry of real-world locations and location-related information for businesses and other entities, analogous to the registry of domain names for Internet and web sites. By this central registry, businesses and other entities are facilitated to post their location and location-related information in a single place, for all users who need or want it; and users can refer to this single place, via the Internet, Web, and other telecommunications devices, to obtain accurate, complete and timely location and location-based information about the registered businesses and other entities. Each record of the UGD is keyed by a proprietary location address (PLA) based on the World Geographic Referencing System (WGRS), and optionally may have one or more proprietary location addresses (PLAs), which also may serve as keys. Associated with the PLA keys, each UGD record generally includes the full name for the business or other entity, its street address, and miscellaneous contact information (e.g., telephone number, facsimile number, e-mail address, internet website address, wireless website address). Other more dynamic, customized information (e.g., store hours, credit cards accepted, inventory, prices, specials, hours, parking) also may be available in the UGD record or linked to the UGD record. Users of any device or service can access the UGD through one or more location name servers (LNS), which can provide access to the UGD or other location-based information linked to the UGD or LNS. Based on the WGRS, PLAs provide, in addition to unique keys for UGD records, a user-friendly notation for location naming in the real-world and on all types of location-sensitive electronic devices, from web phones to in-car navigation systems. Given the UGD, these ULA / PLAs are as important to real-world businesses as their domain names because these WGRS addresses drive real-world commerce to physical business locations just as domain names drive e-commerce Internet or web sites.

A method and system for archiving and / or verifying electronic communications. The method and system provide verification of an email sent by a sender to a recipient, comprising receiving a copy of an email as an addressee; indexing the email according to at least one of sender, recipient, date, or subject matter; and storing an exact copy of the email as received. The method and system also provide for secure electronic communication between a sender and at least one recipient, comprising receiving from the sender view a secure internet connection a message and the email address of at least one intended recipient of the message; sending an email message to the at least one intended recipient of the message that a message is waiting; transmitting the message to the at least one intended recipient via a secure internet connection established by the at least one intended recipient; and sending an email message to the sender that the at least one recipient has been sent the message. The method and system also provide for transmitting a facsimile for a sender to a recipient, the comprising: receiving an electronic facsimile message from the sender together with the facsimile number of the recipient; storing a copy of the electronic facsimile message; transmitting the facsimile message to the facsimile number of the recipient.

A standalone notification system, including a notification server which generates electronic messages to registered customers upon their request or upon a host business request. The customer provides the system with his / her messaging identification (“ID”), e.g. e-mail address, GSM (global system for mobile communications) or other mobile phone numbers that are able to accept, e.g., short message service (“SMS”) messages, facsimile number, and / or telephone number. Customers can register with the host notification server without having any relationship, banking or otherwise, with the host. Customers can choose between different notification channels such as e-mail, SMS message, fax or pager.

A unified message platform system integrates voice recognition and dialing capabilities with directory systems, including automated telephone directory systems and private database directory systems, to enable a user to access stored directory information related to an intended recipient of a message. The unified message platform system prompts the user to speak the name of the party intended as the recipient of a message, and the type of address information to be accessed, for example fax number, e-mail address, home address, etc. The unified message platform system analyzes the input speech information, determines the appropriate database to be accessed, and accesses either local directory databases, or remote directory databases via a local area or wide area packet switched network. For remote directory databases such as private corporate directory databases, the unified message platform system also interacts with the remote directory databases to ensure compliance with any security protocols of the remote directory databases. The unified message platform, upon obtaining the requested information, either announces the information in an audible format, or uses the requested information, for example to place a call to the station corresponding to the requested information.

The present invention permits safeguarding of private data entered into a memory chip of a cell phone by permitting the cell phone owner to erase the data in a lost or stolen phone, using an preset erase code and erase command in the cell phone or the network base station, and disabling or erasing circuitry on the memory chip, preferably an EEPROM chip. Further, a user of the cell phone may obtain information of a person or entity, via a cellular communications network, by dialing a directory assistance number and requesting information associated with the name of the person or entity the user has requested information of. The information may be provided to the user in the form of a vcard and may include, among other information, telephone and facsimile numbers, mailing addresses, instant messaging addresses, maps or directions, digital photos or videos, and the like.

The present invention permits safeguarding of private data entered into a memory chip of a cell phone by permitting the cell phone owner to erase the data in a lost or stolen phone, using an preset erase code and erase command in the cell phone or the network base station, and disabling or erasing circuitry on the memory chip, preferably an EEPROM chip. Further, a user of the cell phone may obtain information of a person or entity, via a cellular communications network, by dialing a directory assistance number and requesting information associated with the name of the person or entity the user has requested information of. The information may be provided to the user in the form of a vcard and may include, among other information, telephone and facsimile numbers, mailing addresses, instant messaging addresses, maps or directions, digital photos or videos, and the like.

An electronic copy of a paper document, such as high school transcript, can be attached to an electronic document, such as an application for admission to an institution. The high school providing the paper document is required to have only a simple fax machine. When a student requests that a transcript accompany an electronic application, a request for the transcript is automatically generated by the application servicer and transmitted to the high school. The request includes a return facsimile cover sheet that includes an identifier that can be automatically machine-interpreted when the cover sheet is transmitted back to the servicer with the transcript. The identifier marking is sufficiently robust that it will be machine interpretable, even after rough treatment or serial copying and transmission by the high school. Upon receipt of the transcript facsimile, the servicer automatically interprets the identifying information on the return facsimile cover sheet to identify the student and the particular admissions application for which the transcript was request. The transcript is forwarded preferably along with application to the appropriate institution after being converted, if necessary, to a data format specified by the institution. The servicer may also store the transcript in electronic form in a secure database for subsequent transmission for a different term or to different institution. Each facsimile cover sheet is preferably “branded” with the logo of the institution to which the student is applying, although the return facsimile number is preferably a toll free number to a computer facsimile server of the servicer. Thus, the servicer can be invisible to the high school.

A method and system is provided for facilitating the retrieval of data from a database using a communications device where the database is stored remotely from the communications device. A communications device using the method or system may obtain remote data, such as e-mail addresses, facsimile numbers, phone numbers, or uniform resource locators, from a user's remotely stored personal database.

A facsimile apparatus 1 is provided, which can access a latest database 6a associating facsimile numbers and destination names. The apparatus includes a storage unit 20 for storing a destination table 12a in which button information such as one-touch dial buttons, facsimile numbers, and destination names are associated, an input unit 21 for accepting an instruction for one-touch facsimile transmission, a facsimile number acquisition unit 23 for identifying a destination name associated with the transmission instruction by referring to the destination table 12a and searching the database 6a using the destination name as a search key to acquire a facsimile number associated therewith, and a transmission unit 24 for determining whether the acquired facsimile number agrees with a facsimile number associated with a one-touch dial button accepted by the input unit 21 and executing facsimile transmission only when the numbers agree.

A system for accessing implantable medical device (IMD) data is provided including an interrogation appliance to retrieve data from an IMD and transfer the data to a processor. The processor converts the device data to a viewable form that is transferred by the processor to a data destination. The data destination may be an electronic mail address, a secure web site, a facsimile number or the interrogation appliance. The data is presented in a viewable form at the data destination either on a display or by printing. Any number of interrogation appliances may be communicatively coupled to the processor for converting IMD data and providing the IMD data back to a data destination in a viewable form for use by a clinician.

A method and carrier information system (500) for transferring information to at least one target device is provided. The method can include receiving (105) a request for contact information from a requesting device. The method can further include transferring (110) at least a portion of the contact information to a contact information database of the target device in response to receiving the request. The contact information can include a phone number, a facsimile number, a physical address, an email address, a universal resource locator (URL), directions to a location or an image.

Methods of the present inventions allow for generating a business card during domain name registration. An exemplary method may comprise the step of generating a business card containing information received during the process of registering a domain name to a registrant and, perhaps, providing the business card to the registrant. The information may comprise the registrant's name, title, address, telephone number, facsimile number, domain name, URL, email address, business name, business logo, and / or business tagline.

A facsimile device for transmitting image data, using a computer communication network such as the Internet. A transmitting side facsimile device FAX1a determines whether the Internet NTW or the public switched telephone network PSTN is used, by confirming whether information showing to use NTW is attached to the facsimile number of the destination facsimile device FAX2. If NTW is used, image data is transmitted to the gateway device GTW1 and the facsimile number of FAX2. Users can easily select a requested communication network. FAX1a discriminates the beginning number attached in the beginning of the destination number input by users and confirms whether the internal network K, PSTN or NTW is used in sending image data. If NTW is used, the IP address of the nearest gateway device GTW in FAX2 is acquired and image data and the destination number is transmitted by designating the IP address as a destination.

An image input and output apparatus such as a facsimile machine or multifunction printer recognizes a colored image pattern on an input document and processes the document according to the color of the image pattern. Information that can be encoded by the color of the image pattern includes an electronic mail address, facsimile number, or file server address to which an image of the document is to be sent, a folder in which the image is to be stored, or a number of copies of the image to be printed. The color recognition capability of the apparatus can thereby be used effectively even in the processing of basically black and white documents. Information may also be encoded by the shape of the colored image pattern.

The invention provides a virtual number faxing method which comprises the following steps: firstly, a fax switchboard number is added besides an original switchboard number; secondly, an extension user is relatively configured with a virtual fax extension number, thus, the extension user simultaneously has a phone extension number and a fax extension number; the fax extension number configured to the extension user is bound with an E-mail address of the extension user; and an external fax user can send a virtual fax to the extension user by dialing the fax switchboard number and then dialing the fax extension number. The invention also provides a fax voice server based on the method. The invention can receive and send a fax without a physical fax machine, enables each user of an enterprise to similarly have his own fax machine without the limit of fax user quantity, saves number resources, and is convenient for the fax extension user to receive, send and manage the fax.

People communicating with each other in remote places can easily connect their communication devices. For example, a user A of an IP telephone unit a1 may have a desire to transmit a still image to a user B talking on an IP telephone unit b1. In such a case, from the IP telephone unit b1, the IP telephone unit a1 obtains the facsimile number of a communication device belonging to user B which can receive still images, for example, a facsimile. The IP telephone unit a1 can transmit the obtained facsimile number to the facsimile device a2 connected by LAN. The facsimile device a2 which has received the number calls the received facsimile number. In other words, the IP telephone unit a1 which includes the communication control device obtains the communication address required for a third communication during a call, and notifies the communication device a2 of the address with the second communication function.

A network system and a method for registering an abbreviated number are provided. The network system for controlling a plurality of peripherals connected to a host device through a network comprises a first interface part for supplying a communication interface for communicating with the plurality of peripherals; a network driver part for supplying a menu screen for inputting abbreviated information which will be registered in a selected peripheral among the plurality of peripherals, the abbreviated information comprises at least one of an e-mail address and a facsimile number; an input part for inputting the abbreviated information; and a first control part for controlling the network driver part so that the menu screen is supplied upon receipt of a signal from the input part, the signal requesting registration of an abbreviated number in the peripheral, and controlling the first interface part so that the abbreviated information input from the input part is transmitted to the peripheral based on the menu screen.

An image-forming apparatus and a document information management method. An image-forming apparatus at a transmission side which communicates with an image-forming apparatus at a reception side. The image-forming apparatus at the transmission side includes a first storage unit to store document data; a transmission / reception unit to receive a transmission request signal of the document data stored in the first storage unit from the image-forming apparatus at reception side; a second storage unit to store document management information having a facsimile number of the image-forming apparatus at reception side which has requested the transmission of the document data and transmission request dates in correspondence to the document data; and a control unit to control the document management information to be stored in the second storage unit if the transmission request signal is received, and reading out the document data corresponding to the transmission request signal from the first storage unit and transmitting the read-out document data to the image-forming apparatus at reception side. Accordingly, the present general inventive concept can separately store and manage information related to the transmissions of the document data that an external image-forming apparatus requests.

An image input and output apparatus such as a facsimile machine or multifunction printer recognizes a colored image pattern on an input document and processes the document according to the color of the image pattern. Information that can be encoded by the color of the image pattern includes an electronic mail address, facsimile number, or file server address to which an image of the document is to be sent, a folder in which the image is to be stored, or a number of copies of the image to be printed. The color recognition capability of the apparatus can thereby be used effectively even in the processing of basically black and white documents. Information may also be encoded by the shape of the colored image pattern.

A system registers a specified storage region included in a plurality of storage regions for storing data and a specified property item given to data stored in the specified storage region, selects data to be facsimile-transmitted from among a plurality of pieces of data stored in the plurality of storage regions, and determines whether the selected data is the data stored in the specified storage region. When the selected data is the data stored in the specified storage region, the information processing system acquires a value of the specified property item given to the selected data, and sets the acquired value as the facsimile number of the destination.

An information processing system includes information processing devices and an accumulation device. Each information processing device includes a facsimile number acquisition unit that acquires a facsimile number registered in another information processing device; a number requesting unit that requests the accumulation device for a number corresponding to the facsimile number, the number including at least one of an area code, a country code, and an identification number of a telephone company, when the facsimile number does not include the number; and a facsimile transmission unit that attaches the number to the facsimile number and performs a facsimile transmission. The accumulation device includes a number return unit that returns a number corresponding to a facsimile number, the number including at least one of an area code, a country code, and an identification number of a telephone company, when the number is requested from one of the information processing devices.

Commercial transactions are monitored by sending a notification of the transaction to the person responsible for paying for the transaction during the occurrence of the transaction. Preferably, the notification is sent when a request for authorizing the commercial transaction is sent to an authorizing entity. In one embodiment of the invention, the person responsible for paying for the commercial transaction can approve the transaction prior to its authorization. The notification can be to any device including a pager, email, facsimile, cellular or other telephone device, personal computer, internet appliance and personal digital assistant, or a voicemail. The notification is performed by sending the notification message to the notification device using one of the following notification addresses as appropriate: a pager number, email address, or other address for notifying the payer, including, for example, a cellular telephone or other telephone number, a facsimile number, an Internet protocol (IP) address, including Internet appliances and an instant messaging address. The notification is by Notification can be suspended at the option of the user and thresholds for notification can be set by the user.

A facsimile apparatus is disclosed that includes a register unit that registers transmission destination information in an internal address book. The register unit receives a number input at least a first time and a second time, and upon determining that a number input the first time and a number input the second time correspond to a same input number, registers the same input number as a valid facsimile number.

A system for accessing implantable medical device (IMD) data is provided including an interrogation appliance to retrieve data from an IMD and transfer the data to a processor. The processor converts the device data to a viewable form that is transferred by the processor to a data destination. The data destination may be an electronic mail address, a secure web site, a facsimile number or the interrogation appliance. The data is presented in a viewable form at the data destination either on a display or by printing. Any number of interrogation appliances may be communicatively coupled to the processor for converting IMD data and providing the IMD data back to a data destination in a viewable form for use by a clinician.

A trace (53) reads an arrival original slip for which the reception is acknowledged, creates a reception acknowledgement image, and stores the reception acknowledgement image in an image file after relating the image to an inquiry number. When a terminal such as a PC (11) or a portable telephone (12) provided to the receiver requests for a reception acknowledgement through the input of the inquiry number or the facsimile number, a CPU (56) retrieves the reception acknowledgement image corresponding to the inquiry number from the terminal from the image file. A facsimile transmission unit (60) transmits the retrieved reception acknowledgement image and the inquiry number. A facsimile machine (13) installed on the receiver side receives the reception acknowledgement image and the inquiry number from the facsimile transmission unit (60) through a public line (3).