Patent ID: 9225851
Filing Date: 2015-12-29
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of delivering fax messages, the method comprising: receiving, at an initial submission gateway device of an Internet fax system, a request to deliver a fax message to one or more third parties; causing to be stored, by the initial submission gateway device, one or more source files associated with the request and representing at least a portion of content to be included as part of the fax message to a shared storage area of the Internet fax system accessible by a plurality of imaging systems and a plurality of fax processing resources of the Internet fax system; for each imaging system of the plurality of imaging systems, calculating a load score based on one or more of a processor load associated with the imaging system and a memory load associated with the imaging system; selecting an imaging system of the plurality of imaging systems to convert the one or more source files into a digital representation suitable for faxing based on their respective load scores; and converting, by the selected imaging system, the one or more source files into the digital representation, associating the digital representation with an outbound fax job and causing the fax message to be delivered to the one or more third parties by submitting the outbound fax job to a fax modem of the plurality of fax processing resources.