Patent ID: 7755790

Claim:
A method for a computer system comprises: receiving a facsimile transmission from a user in a fax server, wherein the facsimile transmission includes a digitized representation of a document transmitted using a facsimile transmission format; processing the digitized representation of the document to determine a destination e-mail address using the fax server comprising: processing a first portion of the digitized representation of the document with an optical character recognition engine to determine a first candidate e-mail address using the fax server; processing a second portion of the digitized representation of the document with an optical character recognition engine to determine a second candidate e-mail address using the fax server; and determining the destination e-mail address in response to the first candidate e-mail address and to the second candidate e-mail address using the fax server; reformatting at least a portion of the digitized representation of the document into an e-mail attachment format using the fax server; determining advertisement data associated with the facsimile transmission using a third-party advertisement server comprising: processing at least a portion of the digitized representation of the document with an optical character recognition engine to determine one or more key words using the fax server; providing the one or more key words to the advertisement server; and receiving the advertisement data from the advertisement server, wherein the advertisement data includes one or more advertisements selected from a group consisting of: hyperlink, listing of at least one auction, search results; and forming an e-mail message addressed to the destination e-mail address using the fax server and an e-mail server, wherein the e-mail message includes a body portion and an attachment portion, wherein the body portion includes the advertisement data, and wherein the attachment portion includes the portion of the digitized representation of the document in the e-mail attachment format.