Patent ID: 9596381
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: H04M,H04N

Claim:
1. A method for faxing, comprising: receiving over a computer based network, at a set of services deployed at a location remote from a user's site, a document and a destination telephone number associated with a fax from a first fax connector at the user's site; determining if there is a fax connector identifier associated with the destination telephone number by accessing a mapping of telephone numbers to fax connector identifiers to determine if there is a fax connector identifier associated with the destination phone number, and if there is a fax connector identifier associated with the destination telephone number: storing the document in an entry in a storage in association with the fax connector identifier before it is sent to a second fax connector, and sending the document to the second fax connector associated with the fax connector identifier over the computer based network; and if there is not a fax connector identifier associated with the destination telephone number: sending the document from the location remote from the user's site to the destination telephone number over a publicly switched telephone network (PSTN) via the set of services.