Patent ID: 7414744

Claim:
A method for tracking facsimile jobs, comprising of: (a) determining whether a return message is associated with a prepared message that originated at an originating device, and (b) in response to an affirmative determining, interpreting the return message as an incoming message not intended for printing and processing the return message according to a first predetermined configuration of the originating device including disallowing printing of the return message; whereby in response to a negative determining, an incoming message is interpreted as a valid message intended for printing and is processed according to a second predetermined configuration of the originating device; wherein the return message includes first information indicative of a destination address and second information indicative of an originating address, the method further comprising: comparing the first and second information; in response to the comparing, interpreting a match of the first and second information as being the result of a round-trip job which originated at the originating device and which is intended for printing; and in response to the match of the first and second information, processing the return message according to the second predetermined configuration.