Patent ID: 8031360

Claim:
A facsimile processing system, comprising: a data store configured to store identification and contact information for a plurality of telecommunication service subscribers; and a call processing system including a network interface and a program stored in computer-readable memory that when executed configures the call processing system to receive a message that was transmitted from a carrier system in response to the carrier system receiving a call from a caller directed to a phone address associated with a user, the message including a phone address associated with the caller and an identifier associated with the user, use information in the message and in the data store to determine if the user is a subscriber of a service offered by the call processing system, and if so then receive a facsimile via the call, log the call in a call processing system call log, and determine if a client associated with the user is online, and if the client is online then enable the client to synchronize with the call processing system call log so that the call is included in a call log displayed by the client.