Patent ID: 7921161

Claim:
A method for facilitating the transmission of a facsimile document to a recipient, the method comprising: a. utilizing a computer for electronically defining a Gateway domain name for one or more Zones in an H 323 network, each Zone comprising a set of one or more Gateways; b. obtaining by utilizing the computer, from a Gatekeeper associated with the H 323 network, utilization data concerning one or more Gateways in one or more of the Zones; and c. generating a lookup table by utilizing the computer, the lookup table electronically stored on a computer and comprising a Gateway domain name for one or more of the Zones, the utilization data with respect to one or more of the Gateways in the Zones obtained from the Gatekeeper, and an IP address for one or more of the Gateways in the Zones.