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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7965825 | Methods and systems for transferring voice messages and faxes over a network Processes and systems for transferring communication messages, such as fax and voice messages, between a computer and a terminal are disclosed. For example, a fax message intended for a user is received at a call processing system. A voice message intended for the u... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7949109 | System and method of controlling sound in a multi-media communication application A computing device and computer-readable medium storing instructions for controlling a computing device to customize a voice in a multi-media message created by a sender for a recipient, the multi-media message comprising a text message from the sender to be deliver... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7742582 | Offender message delivery system A correctional facility communication system for sending an external message to an offender of a correctional facility is disclosed. The correctional facility communication system includes a messaging system and a correctional facility system coupled together with a... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7742581 | Electronic messaging exchange A secure electronic message exchange system, including a plurality of workstations, a communications medium, and a control platform coupled to a workstation of the plurality of workstations by the communications medium. The control platform includes one or more appa... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7697668 | System and method of controlling sound in a multi-media communication application A computing device and computer-readable medium storing instructions for controlling a computing device to customize a voice in a multi-media message created by a sender for a recipient, the multi-media message comprising a text message from the sender to be deliver... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7502451 | Institutional electronic messaging system An electronic messaging system for both participating institutions and nonparticpating institutions and their populations. When an institution is participating in the system of the present invention, both message senders and recipients are authenticated and known an... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7443532 | Network scanner system An image input section pre-inputs an image. A temporary storage section temporarily stores the image input by the image input section. An attribute control section controls at least attribute information of the input information temporarily stored in the temporary s... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7386520 | Cost-based method for dynamically pricing and prioritizing an e-mail Method for dynamically allocating a cost to an e-mail that a first user of a transmission network such as the Internet network or an Intranet network who is a member of a group, wants to forward to a second user of the transmission network who is also a member of th... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7369648 | Apparatus and method for PBX-integrated unified messaging services on a switched backbone PBX-integrated unified messaging capabilities are provided via a switched backbone (such as the Internet) without having to install or deploy on-premise unified messaging equipment. A Corporate Communication Platform (“CCP”) typically located within a corporate ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366758 | Output terminal apparatus for printing data by email An apparatus includes a communication unit which receives email through a communication line, the email having been sent by a user and including a first identifier and data. The apparatus further includes an accumulation unit which stores therein the data, a printou... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366757 | Communication apparatus, communication method, communication system, and storage medium Image data communication equivalent to facsimile communication using a public network is realized on e-mail communication. When a communication apparatus for transmitting/receiving e-mail data by connecting to the Internet is to communicate e-mail data having facsim... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7355758 | Automated facsimile monitoring and displaying methods and related systems Automated facsimile monitoring methods, systems, and computer program products can track response data from multiple facsimiles sent to different locations and generate electronically accessible failure reports to allow for error or faults to be tracked and assessed... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353257 | System and method for disaster recovery and management of an email system The present invention provides an improved system and method for disaster recovery and management of an email system. The system includes a deferral monitor that detects when a failure occurs in a client's email system, and a mailbox creation process and automatical... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7346505 | System and method for voicemail transcription A system and method is described for transcribing a recorded message automatically from a voicemail message system or an answering machine. The designated message may be automatically transcribed and forwarded to various archival devices, such as a printer, a facsim... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7333223 | System and method for electronically delivering documents A system and method are provided for reliable and customer-friendly delivery of documents. One method of the present invention include the steps of: producing document data for printing documents; accepting requests to print selected documents; determining whether a... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7323970 | Method and system for remote interaction with a vehicle via wireless communication A telemetry system coupled to a vehicle can communicate with a remote site using the overhead control channels of a wireless network, such as a cellular mobile radiotelephone network. The telemetry system can monitor or control aspects of the vehicle's operations ba... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321442 | Image data communications device and method An image data communication apparatus is connected to an image data source and to a network, and transmits image data attached to an e-mail to a receiving apparatus via the network. The e-mail including a mail from command and a mail message. The image data communic... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7320019 | Method and apparatus for automatically checking e-mail addresses in outgoing e-mail communications The present invention provides a system and method for detecting incorrect e-mail addresses in outgoing e-mail communications. In a first embodiment, a domain name database creates a table of domain names by automatically storing the domain names of e-mail addresses... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7313106 | Method of operating a virtual private wireless network implementing message delivery preferences of the user A virtual private wireless network in which wireless devices according to the present invention includes at least one wireless device having a screen for displaying received text and an intelligent information interconnect device integrating voice messaging, email, ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310514 | Transmission-origin mobile telephone capable of detecting the media types and data formats of a multimedia message receivable by destination mobile telephones in a multimedia communication system A multimedia communication system is disclosed in which a mobile telephone that originates transmission can detect the media types and formats of a multimedia message that can be received by destination mobile telephones. Information regarding data formats that can ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305440 | Apparatus and method for receiving image An [X-mailer:] field analyzing section checks whether or not [X-mailer:] field is included in a header of received mail data. If [X-mailer:] field is included in the header, there is a possibility that received mail data will be error mail. Then, a [From:] field ana... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7289245 | Color facsimile device capable of transmitting color image information represented in appropriate color space through multiple communication channels A color facsimile device capable of transmitting color image information through multiple communication methods, such as G3, G4, T.37, and T.38, which can convert color image information into that represented in appropriate color space for each communication methods... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7280641 | Communication terminal apparatus and transfer method therefor Messages from a remote telephone set are automatically recorded as automatically recorded data by an answering function. An e-mail transmission/reception unit stores e-mail received from an e-mail server in a received mail file. An automatically recorded message and... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280239 | Communication system and communication apparatus building the system Facsimile image data received from a normal facsimile apparatus connected to a general telephone network can be transmitted as an e-mail to the e-mail address of a computer network such as a LAN or the like designated by the source facsimile apparatus. An apparatus ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7268907 | Image forming apparatus, image forming system, image forming method, and control program for printing data requested from a client apparatus via a network Together with an image forming apparatus, a method and a control program which can be applied to the image forming apparatus are disclosed in an embodiment of the invention. The image forming apparatus is an image forming apparatus for printing data whose printing h... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7262887 | Network scanner system An image input section pre-inputs an image. A temporary storage section temporarily stores the image input by the image input section. An attribute control section controls at least attribute information of the input information temporarily stored in the temporary s... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7245393 | Facsimile machine and communication result notifying method A facsimile apparatus transmits facsimile data converted from e-mail data to a facsimile destination via a public communication network. A receiver receives the e-mail data from a requesting node. A memory stores a password and a domain name of a requesting node. An... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7239434 | Data communication apparatus and method A document transmission apparatus reduces troublesome labor of an operator when transmitting document data, inputted from a scanner or the like, by various transmission methods such as electronic mail, facsimile, remote printing and file transfer. An address book co... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7233802 | Interconnect system and method for multiple protocol short message services A customer central location (CCL) communicates with multiple remote wireless devices employing mutually incompatible data formats or short message service (SMS) protocols. A communication, from the CCL to a remote device or from a remote device to the CCL, passes th... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7230745 | Document transmission and routing with recipient control, such as facsimile document transmission and routing Techniques for transmitting information to a recipient under their control are described. In some situations, the techniques are used in conjunction with a fax delivery system to, as part of a connection established to perform a fax transmission, provide a variety o... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7230733 | Communication control method of internet facsimile and internet facsimile A communication control method of an Internet facsimile may provide transmitting and receiving document information via the Internet and transmitting and receiving facsimile image information via a public switched telephone network. The method may include receiving ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7224778 | Method and apparatus for managing subscription-type messages A method and apparatus for managing subscription-type arrangements involving a recurring series of messages sent to a plurality of user recipients on a communications network is disclosed. Incoming messages are monitored by a filtering agent, and message attributes ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7221471 | Image data communication device and method An image data communication apparatus is connected to an image data source and to a network, and transmits image data attached to an e-mail to a receiving apparatus via the network. The e-mail including a mail from command and a mail message. The image data communic... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218203 | Motion activated reminder system A motion activated, voice controlled reminder system, wherein a programmable device automatically reminds the intended receiver of a future event, without any extraordinary action on the part of the recipient, thus enabling the user to, via a telephone, leave a mess... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7215438 | Transmittance and receiving method of an internet facsimile system Transmitting and receiving methods of an Internet facsimile system are disclosed. The Internet facsimile system includes a telephone network, a transmitting network, a server and an office machine. The server has therein a network interface and a memory unit. The of... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7212617 | System for integrated electronic communications A system is disclosed for integrating electronic mail, voice mail, and fax mail in a universal mailbox. Message receivers may access their messages with a telephone or a computer regardless of the communication medium used by the message sender. Using a telephone, m... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7206085 | Network facsimile device and communication method therefor A network facsimile machine (1) is connected to PSTN (3) such that it can receive fax data from a remote facsimile machine (2) over the PSTN (3). The network facsimile machine (1) is also connected to LAN (6) such that it ca... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7200637 | System for processing electronic mail messages with specially encoded addresses A method for processing an electronic mail message is disclosed comprising the steps of: accepting a request for e-mail server address information for an electronic message having an address, the address having an electronic mail receiving system domain with a recip... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7196824 | Confidential facsimile transmission and receipt notification In an image processing apparatus of the present invention, an F code indicating a location in which facsimile data received from outside is stored, and a mail address of a computer apparatus connected to a network, associated with the F code, are set. If the facsimi... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7194079 | Methods and apparatus for forwarding facsimiles by phone and/or E-mail Improved call forwarding methods and apparatus are described. Dialing of multiple call forwarding locations in parallel is supported. Distinguishing between fax and voice calls and using different forwarding numbers for each type of call is also supported. Forwardin... | 03/20/2007 |
