Patent ID: 7606873

Claim:
A method for distributing content over a communications network, the method comprising: storing content at a storage associated with a fax server; logging on to the fax server by a web-enabled device operated by a user; authenticating the web-enabled device; generating a list of accessible content available at the fax server, the list including only content that is accessible to the web-enabled device and that was stored at the storage by the user or by an associate of the user from the content available at the fax server; providing the list to the web-enabled device; selecting a particular accessible content from the list; transmitting the selection to the fax server; retrieving the selected content from the storage associated with the fax server; sending destination information to the fax server by the web-enabled device as to one or more designated devices, not including the web-enabled device, which are selected by the web-enabled device to receive the selected content; forwarding the selected content and destination information to a fax service provider; faxing from the fax service provider the selected accessible content to the one or more designated devices.