Patent ID: 9344597
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: H04L,H04M,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: configuring a plurality of components of an email-to-fax processing system to provide email-to-fax processing services over a network, wherein the components include a FaxEmail router, a Rendering server and a Fax assembler; accessing email headers from a maildrop on a public email server at the FaxEmail router; retrieving emails, including attachments, associated with the email headers from the maildrop; storing the attachments in a file server and the email headers as a first data set in a database; retrieving the email headers in random order from the first data set and the attachments from the file server at the Rendering server; converting the attachments to faxes at the Rendering server; storing the faxes in the file server and fax headers for the faxes in a second data set of the database; and organizing the faxes for transmission over the network at the Fax assembler.