Patent ID: 7474432

Claim:
A method of processing facsimiles, the method comprising: receiving at a call processing system a first message transmitted from a first carrier system at least partly in response to the first carrier system receiving a call from a caller directed to a user phone address, the first message including a phone address associated with the caller and an identifier associated with the user; using information in the first message to determine if the user is a subscriber of a first service offered by the call processing system; and if the user is a subscriber of the first service offered by the call processing system: receiving a facsimile via the call at the call processing system; logging the call in a first call processing system call log; determining if a user telecommunications client is online, and if the telecommunications client is online, enabling the client and call log to synchronize with at least a portion of the first call processing system so that the call is included in a call log displayed via a client application.