Patent ID: 8817315

Claim:
A method for inserting an advertisement in a document being faxed, said method including: requesting approval from a fax service user for the insertion of the advertisement within the document being fax by a user; attempting to determine a category associated with content in the document being faxed by identifying a repeated word in the document being faxed; if the category associated with the content in the document being faxed is determined selecting the advertisement from a plurality of advertisements stored in a storage unit which the plurality of advertisement are related to the associated category; if the category associated with the content in the document is not determined, selecting a random advertisement from the plurality of advertisements stored in the storage unit; determining a location within the document being faxed for the selected advertisement to be positioned; placing the selected advertisement into the determined location in the document being faxed; providing free or reduced rates to the fax service user for faxing the document with the advertisement; displaying the selected advertisement within the fax in a clickable manner, thereby creating an additional revenue generating opportunity when the fax is viewed in digital form.