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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7426211 | Data transmission method and data transmission arrangement The invention relates to an arrangement for implementing data transmission between at least two devices. At least a section of a connection between at least two different devices is implemented by a wireless connection and at least some of the communication between ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7397906 | Electronic document management system and method A system and method automating the placement of paper documents into an electronic document management system. A document is faxed to a network server. The network server automatically receives the faxed document and converts it to a pre-determined file format, such... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7336649 | Hybrid packet-switched and circuit-switched telephony system A hybrid telephony system with packet switching as well as circuit switching optimizes utilization of transport networks, and is accessible from any conventional telephone set. A call originating from a circuit-switched network is passed through a gateway computer t... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7312887 | Internet print protocol print dispatch server A method for an online Web Server to process print requests for a remote printing. The request is sent by a client using the Internet Printing Protocol to the Server. The server then parses the request and determines the destination for the print job. The print job ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7295663 | Network communication system The present invention is directed to a network communication system that provides textual communication and call transferring between nodes. The system further allows simultaneous notification of multiple nodes of an incoming call. The system includes a local comput... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7213076 | Dynamic indication of email capabilities A method of email administration including receiving in a transcoding gateway from a sender an email display capability request for a domain, wherein the capability request comprises a domain identification, finding in dependence upon the domain identification, at l... | 05/01/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7202978 | Facsimile telecommunications system and method A system and method for facilitating facsimile transmissions has one or more store and forward facilities. The store and forward facilities include a computer for controlling operations and mass data storage equipment. Subscriber mailboxes are provided as part of th... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7197705 | Electronic mail apparatus According to an electronic mail apparatus of the present invention, when a sentence serving as the contents of an electronic mail written in Japanese cannot be text-displayed in a destination of the electronic mail, a text file corresponding to the sentence is conve... | 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 |
| 7177402 | Voice-activated interactive multimedia information processing system Embodiments of the invention are directed to automated reception systems that may receive voice information indicating action to be taken by the system. The automated reception system may receive a call and transmit a speech message to the caller identifying actions... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7145993 | Communication apparatus A communication apparatus includes a register for registering a facsimile number of a sending destination for an abbreviation number, a register for registering an electronic mail address of the sending destination for the same abbreviation number, a key correspondi... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7116766 | Electronic mail distribution system for integrated electronic communications A system is disclosed for integrated electronic mail, voice mail, and fax mail messaging. A common message format is defined for use by an electronic mail service and a telecommunications service so electronic mail messages that may include voice and fax mail attach... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7110134 | Facsimile system In a facsimile system having a server device connected to a local-area network system, to which a plurality of client terminals are connected, and connected also to an ISDN and a pay-station telephone network, the server device performs communication with the pay-st... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7095830 | Communication apparatus, communication method, and storage medium An object of this invention is to provide a communication apparatus capable of maintaining the secrecy of data received in a memory box when forwarding the data. To achieve this object, when data received in a memory box designated by a sub-address/password signal i... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7085019 | Facsimile apparatus The present invention relates to a facsimile apparatus for providing a single/dual side mixture mode capable of transmitting and receiving original images including single/dual side mixture efficiently. Under control of a CPU 22, information indicating presen... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7079633 | Coding a masked data channel in a radio signal A system for supplementing an audio signal with auxiliary data in an inaudible channel. The system can include an audible radio signal source having at least a left channel and a right channel. A digital signal processor can be programmed to transform the audible ra... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7046691 | Methods and systems for dynamic conversion of objects from one format type to another format type by selectively using an intermediary format type The dynamic conversion of a data structure from an origin data format into a destination data format is described. Instead of using a single data conversion module to accomplish this data conversion, a gateway computer system identifies a sequence of format conversi... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7027568 | Personal message service with enhanced text to speech synthesis A server in a network gathers textual information, such as news items, E-mail and the like. From that information, the server develops or identifies messages for use by individual subscribers. The same server that accumulates the text messages or another server in t... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7023970 | Arrangement in a local computer for sending voice messages to a unified communications system A user computer, for example a personal computer (PC), includes a recorder configured for generating an audio file having an identifier enabling a unified messaging system to identify the audio file as a voice message, and an e-mail client configured for sending the... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7006261 | Modulator and demodulator (MODEM) A MODEM can shorten the processing time of an interface disposed between a data terminal equipment (DTE) and the MODEM. The MODEM stores an object program of a procedure in a memory and switches an operational mode of the MODEM automatically corresponding to the pre... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6965459 | Communication system between computer and facsimile machine Remote data entry is performed in such a manner that a plurality of entry items and a plurality of data items are caused to collectively enter within one communication and the check sum is calculated simultaneously with the data entry so that abnormality of the data... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6963634 | Electronic-mail apparatus A method for receiving data, utilizing an electronic-mail communication apparatus. The method includes receiving image data in a facsimile format via a telephone network and receiving electronic mail data, including one of image data and character code data, via a c... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6961411 | Electronic-mail apparatus An electronic-mail apparatus, comprises an electronic-mail receiver that receives an electronic-mail via a network, a converter that converts the electronic-mail into printable image data, and a facsimile receiver that negotiates with a facsimile sender. The facsimi... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6937713 | IP call forward profile A method and system for providing call forwarding in an IP telephone network is disclosed. First, when a telephone number for a first telephone from a second telephone is dialed, the call is routing to a call manager. Call setup procedures with a BRG responsible for... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6937359 | Image communicating method, facsimile type electronic mail apparatus and facsimile apparatus A particular image written in a particular paper of a particular paper size is scanned by a scanner to produce image data, a format of the image data is changed to a mail format to change the image data to mail data, the particular paper size is added to the mail da... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6934045 | Packet length indication for a facsimile system A facsimile system is disclosed for transferring a facsimile using a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) network. The facsimile system comprises a first communication processing system and a second communication processing system. The first comm... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6914693 | Method, system, and program for transmitting facsimiles in a network environment where multiple fax servers use a common rendering machine Disclosed is a system, method, and program for processing a message in a network computing system including a facsimile transmission comprised of a recipient contact address and message content. The message content includes at least one of message text and attached ... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6909708 | System, method and article of manufacture for a communication system architecture including video conferencing Telephone calls, data and other multimedia information including video, audio and data is routed through a switched network which includes transfer of information across the internet. Users can participate in video conference calls in which each participant can simu... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6906820 | Image communicating method, facsimile type electronic mail apparatus and facsimile apparatus A communication apparatus includes a scanner configured to scan a document to obtain binary image data, an adder that adds paper size information to the obtained binary image data and a converter that converts the binary image data, including the paper size informat... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6885470 | Electronic mail system An electronic mail system connected to a network includes a section for converting an image of a document surface into corresponding document image data, and a section for compressing the document image data into compression-resultant image data. The electronic mail... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6810408 | Method and apparatus for controlling cascading e-mail distribution A method, apparatus and an article of manufacture for providing cascade distribution of electronic mail comprising creating an electronic mail message having a flag to identify the electronic mail message as a cascade-type electronic mail message or a cascade forwar... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6674541 | Method for transmitting facsimile data between facsimile apparatuses through an internet protocol network and relay apparatuses used in the method A method for transmitting facsimile data between facsimile apparatuses each connected to a relay apparatus, and relay apparatuses being connected each other through an internet protocol network, includes steps of: performing an address conversion from a t... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6654601 | Method and system for remote retrieval of messages using spontaneous networking technology The present invention is directed to a method and system for remote receipt of a message, such as a telephone, e-mail, facsimile or paper message. A server or data center is provided for receiving messages from a sender communicating with a recipient mobi... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6633630 | 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 t... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6614891 | Electronic-mail apparatus An electronic-mail reception apparatus has a body and includes a facsimile receiver that negotiates with a sender before receiving image data, to receive image data in facsimile format from the sender via a telephone network. An electronic-mail receiver r... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6611358 | Document transcoding system and method for mobile stations and wireless infrastructure employing the same A system and method for transcoding a document to be transmitted to a mobile station according to document display capabilities thereof and a wireless infrastructure containing the same. The system includes: (1) a station identifying circuit that receives... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6603835 | System for text assisted telephony An arrangement for providing captioned telephone service is provided which permits persons who are hard of hearing to receive captioning of their telephone communications as they need it. A personal interpreter/captioned telephone device can dial a relay ... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6594346 | Relay for personal interpreter A relay is described to facilitate communication through the telephone system between hearing users and users who need or desire assistance in understanding voice communications. To overcome the speed limitations inherent in typing, the call assistant at ... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6535296 | Facsimile device for providing a user-to-user signaling function and a method for transferring and receiving facsimile data by using the same A facsimile device includes a device capable of transferring and receiving a message in a user-to-user signaling manner and an S-type interface card which is connected to an integrated service digital network (ISDN). According to the present invention, th... | 03/18/2003 |
