Patent ID: 6892239

Claim:
A method for processing a message in a network computing system including a facsimile transmission comprised of a recipient contact address and message content, wherein the message content includes at least one of message text and attached files, comprising: managing the facsimile transmission as a fax job in a first computing system, wherein the facsimile transmission further includes sender information for the sender of the fax job; transferring, with the first computing system, a job number assigned to the fax job to a second computing system; requesting, with the second computing system, the message content for the job number; transferring the message content to the second computing system, wherein the first computing system transfers the message content in response to receiving the request from the second computing system; launching, with the second computing system, at least one application program to convert the message content to at least one image in a file format, wherein the second computing system generates the content of message text and each attachment into images in the file format; using, with the second computing system, the sender information to access fax over page information for the fax job; generating a cover page image in the file format from the fax cover page information if there is fax cover page information for the sender of the fax job; transmitting, with the second computing system, the converted fax cover page image to the first computing system; transferring, with the second computing system, the converted message content in the file format to the first computing system; and transferring, with the first computing system, the fax cover page and message content in the file format to a communication port for transmittal to the recipient contact address.