Patent ID: 8503630

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, at a telecommunications system of an Internet fax system, an inbound fax call having associated therewith a source address, a destination address and a fax signal, wherein the destination address corresponds to a particular subscriber of the Internet fax system; switching, by the telecommunications system, the inbound fax call to a call mediation system of a plurality of call mediation systems within the Internet fax system; determining, by the call mediation system, desired fax protocol technical call processing capabilities for processing the fax signal based on a plurality of the source address, the destination address and whether the inbound fax call was received through a circuit-switched or packet-switched connection; identifying, by the call mediation system a subset of fax processing resources of a plurality of fax processing resources associated with the call mediation system that have the desired fax protocol technical call processing capabilities; switching, by the call mediation system, the inbound fax call to a selected fax processing resource of the subset of fax processing resources; translating, by the selected fax processing resource, the fax signal into a digital representation; and causing the digital representation to be delivered or otherwise made available to one or more users associated with the particular subscriber.