Patent ID: 7292682

Claim:
Computer-readable medium having computer-readable code embodied therein, the computer-readable code comprising: means for detecting an initiation of a telephone call to a destination by detecting an off-hook delay trigger assigned to a line of an originating party; means for suspending the telephone call and launching an information message from an originating service switching point to at least one service control point if the off-hook delay trigger is detected; means for determining a destination condition for the destination at a first time using the at least one service control point; means for launching a transmit message from the at least one service control point to the originating service switching point to transmit a facsimile message to the destination if the destination condition was “answer” at the first time; means for launching a routing message from the at least one service control point to the originating service switching point to route the telephone call to a messaging platform only if the destination condition was “busy” or “no-answer” at the first time; and means for, if the facsimile message was routed to the messaging platform: (i) storing the routed facsimile message on the messaging platform; (ii) determining a destination condition at a second time, the second time later than the first time; and (iii) transmitting the facsimile message to the destination if the destination condition was “answer” at the second time.