Patent ID: 7920298

Claim:
A fax traffic interception device for enforcing a distribution policy with respect to information transmitted from a sending fax machine to a recipient fax machine as fax traffic, the device comprising: (a) a policy storage device for storing a predefined information distribution policy with respect to said fax traffic; (b) a fax traffic monitor unit for monitoring the fax traffic, said monitor unit comprising: (i) a fax traffic de-modulator for de-modulating said fax traffic being monitored into a digital stream; (ii) a data reconstruction unit for reconstructing from said digital stream a graphic image representing at least part of the information within said fax traffic; and (iii) an image analyzer for obtaining information regarding content of a respective fax from within said reconstructed image, and (c) an enforcement unit associated with said monitoring unit for applying said distribution policy with respect to said analyzed fax traffic.