Patent ID: 6567178
Filing Date: 2003-05-20
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A FAX mail apparatus, connected to a communication network, temporarily receiving, if a line is not connected within the communication network for a call of a FAX communication to transmit a FAX message from a call originating FAX to a destination FAX, the FAX message from said call originating FAX through a line connected within the communication network between the call originating FAX and the FAX mail apparatus and transmitting the FAX message to said destination FAX after a predetermined time has elapsed through a line connected within the communication network between the FAX mail apparatus and the destination FAX, said apparatus comprising:a call originating FAX-ID storage unit for storing a FAX-ID of said call originating FAX which has been transmitted as data from said call originating FAX, said FAX-ID being set in said call originating FAX; call originating means for originating a call to transmit the FAX message to said destination FAX after a given time has elapsed since the FAX message was received and, if the line is not connected to said destination FAX as a result of this call originating process, originating the call to transmit the FAX message to a management FAX being a terminating FAX apparatus; FAX message transmitting means for transmitting, if the line is connected to said management FAX as a result of the call originating process by said call originating means, the FAX message to said management FAX; and call originating FAX-ID transmitting means for transmitting with the FAX message, if the line is connected to said management FAX as a result of the call originating process by said call originating means, the FAX-ID of said call originating FAX which has been stored in said call originating FAX-ID storage unit to said management FAX instead of a FAX-ID of the FAX mail apparatus itself.