Patent ID: 8023131
Filing Date: 2011-09-20
Classification: G06Q,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for a computer system includes: receiving a first facsimile transmission from a user, wherein the first facsimile transmission includes a digitized representation of a first document transmitted using a facsimile transmission format; processing the digitized representation of the first document with an optical character recognition process to determine a destination e-mail address, wherein the destination e-mail address need not be known to the computer system a priori; reformatting at least a portion of the digitized representation of the first document into an e-mail attachment format; determining advertisement data in response to the first facsimile transmission; receiving a second facsimile transmission from the user, wherein the second facsimile transmission includes a digitized representation of a second document transmitted using the facsimile transmission format; processing the digitized representation of the second document with the optical character recognition process to determine the destination e-mail address; reformatting at least a portion of the digitized representation of the second document into the e-mail attachment format; and forming an e-mail message addressed to the destination e-mail address, wherein the e-mail message includes a body portion and an attachment portion, wherein the body portion comprises the advertisement data, and wherein the attachment portion comprises the portion of the digitized representation of the first document in the e-mail attachment format and the portion of the digitized representation of the second document in the e-mail attachment format.