Patent Document ID: 8804178
Application ID: 13776541

Base Claim:
1. A method for routing a confirmation of receipt of a facsimile or portion thereof, comprising: analyzing text of a facsimile for at least one of a meaning and a context of the text; recognizing one or more global document features of the facsimile based at least in part on the analysis; comparing at least one recognized global document feature in the facsimile to a plurality of known document types; routing one or more confirmations to one or more destinations based at least in part on the analysis and the comparison; and determining a type of information contained within each physical area of significance and each logical area of significance; wherein the global document features comprise physical areas of significance and logical areas of significance, and wherein the determining does not utilize any OCR techniques.

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Claim 19:
19. A method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the facsimile text does not contain confirmation destination information, wherein the analysis includes classifying the text as a specific document type, and wherein the confirmation is routed to a sender of the facsimile as well as a destination other than destinations associated with a sender and an intended recipient of the facsimile.