Patent ID: 7194079
Filing Date: 2007-03-20
Classification: H04M,H04N,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A communications method, comprising the steps of: providing a service subscriber an opportunity to separately enable and disable forwarding of fax and voice telephone calls directed to a first telephone number corresponding to the service subscriber; detecting a first telephone call to the first telephone number corresponding to the service subscriber; determining if the first telephone call is a fax or voice telephone call; and if the first telephone call is determined to be a fax telephone call, and fax forwarding has been enabled by said subscriber, performing, i) a fax delivery by E-mail operation and ii) a fax delivery by telephone operation when a customer record corresponding to said subscriber includes information indicating that a received fax directed to said subscriber is to be forwarded by both telephone and E-mail thereby resulting in delivery of a facsimile received from said first telephone call by both an E-mail message and by a telephone call thereby providing delivery of the facsimile to multiple devices.