Patent ID: 7184179
Filing Date: 2007-02-27
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. Internet address informing method using an Internet facsimile apparatus for transmitting and receiving an image by an Internet facsimile transmitting/receiving function and an ordinary facsimile transmitting/receiving function, characterized in that an Internet facsimile apparatus on a transmitting side transmits an Internet facsimile function, and Internet address thereof on first and second signals in a standard protocol of ordinary facsimile communication, and an Internet facsimile apparatus on a receiving side detects and registers the Internet facsimile function, and Internet address of said Internet facsimile apparatus on the transmitting side, carried on the first and second signals in the standard protocol of ordinary facsimile communication, as destination data, and when transmission is to be performed for said Internet facsimile apparatus on the transmitting side thereafter, communicates with said Internet facsimile apparatus on the transmitting side by using the Internet address in the destination data, wherein the ordinary facsimile communication is G3 facsimile communication, the first signal is a TSI signal and carries the telephone number of said Internet facsimile apparatus on the transmitting side, and the second signal is an NSS signal and carries the Internet facsimile function of said Internet facsimile apparatus on the transmitting side in a fourth octet of the NSS and Internet address of said Internet facsimile apparatus on the transmitting side in fifth to twenty-fifth octets of the NSS.