Patent ID: 8045204
Filing Date: 2011-10-25
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: recording, by a computer system, a call-in fax telephone number called by a facsimile transmission device; receiving, by the computer system, a facsimile transmission from the facsimile transmission device, wherein the facsimile transmission comprises a digitized representation of a transmission page, wherein the digitized representation of the transmission page includes an optical representation of an electronic destination address, and wherein the digitized representation of the transmission page is encoded in a first format comprising a facsimile format; determining, by the computer system, the electronic destination address from the digitized representation of the transmission page using optical character recognition techniques, wherein the electronic destination address is independent of the call-in fax telephone number; determining, by the computer system, a graphics template associated with the call-in fax telephone number; combining, by the computer system, a digitized representation of at least a portion of the transmission page with the graphics template to form a digitized representation of a composite page; formatting, by the computer system, the digitized representation of the composite page into a second format; determining, by the computer system, additional service provider data in response to the facsimile transmission or the digitized representation of the transmission page; and transmitting the additional service provider data and the digitized representation of the composite page in the second format to the electronic destination address.