Patent ID: 6564193
Filing Date: 2003-05-13
Classification: G06Q,H04N

Abstract:
A method of sending a facsimile of a message in a document from a user to a recipient, including the steps of:providing in an Internet system for the submission to a web site by the user of the document to be sent by facsimile, confirming the identity of the user at the web site, determining at the web site from the user whether the user wishes to send the facsimile free or at a fee, when the user elects to send a facsimile of the message in the document for free to the recipient, adding a message to the message in the document at the web site to compensate for the free sending of the document, providing an account of the user at the web site, and deducting from the account of the user at the web site the cost of sending the facsimile to the recipient when the user elects to send the facsimile of the document at a fee.