Patent ID: 8335498
Filing Date: 2012-12-18
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: maintaining, by a server that includes one or more processors, a plurality of fax messages associated with a user, each fax message of the plurality of fax messages having a state that indicates at least a status of read or unread for the fax message; automatically deleting fax messages of the plurality of fax messages after a predetermined amount of time; causing a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) connection to be established between the server and a phone that serves as a client through which the plurality of fax messages are viewable; identifying states of one or more fax messages at the server; identifying states of one or more corresponding fax messages at the phone that serves as the client; and performing one or more synchronization actions, using the HTTP connection, to synchronize the one or more fax messages at the server and the one or more corresponding fax messages at the phone that serves as the client, wherein the one or more synchronization actions include: