Patent ID: 6857007

Claim:
A facsimile communication method, including the steps of: receiving at a personal data assistant a destination address; conveying via a first data exchange the received address from the personal data assistant to a host interface portion together with commands instructing the host interface portion to initiate a facsimile delivery; establishing, through the dialing of a destination address different from the destination address received during the receiving step, a communication session between the host interface portion and a forwarding facility; conveying the received address from the host interface portion to the forwarding facility, during the first communication session via a second data exchange independent of the first data exchange; conveying an image from a fax function associated with the host interface portion to the forwarding facility, during the first communication session via a third data exchange independent of the first and the second data exchanges; and delivering the image as an electronic file from the forwarding facility to the destination address received at the personal data assistant; and wherein the first data exchange involves at least a first protocol, and the second data exchange involves at least a second protocol different from the first protocol, and the third data exchange involves at least a third protocol different from each of the first and second protocols.