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Method and telecommunication system for transmitting a facsimile message

  • US 20050180551A1
  • Filed: 02/08/2005
  • Published: 08/18/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/27/1997
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. Computer-readable medium having computer-readable code embodied therein, the computer-readable code comprising:

  • means for detecting an initiation of a telephone call to a destination by detecting an off-hook delay trigger assigned to a line of an originating party;

    means for suspending the telephone call and launching an information message from an originating service switching point to at least one service control point if the off-hook delay trigger is detected;

    means for determining a destination condition for the destination at a first time using the at least one service control point;

    means for launching a transmit message from the at least one service control point to the originating service switching point to transmit a facsimile message to the destination if the destination condition was “

    answer”

    at the first time;

    means for launching a routing message from the at least one service control point to the originating service switching point to route the telephone call to a messaging platform only if the destination condition was “

    busy”

    or “

    no-answer”

    at the first time; and

    means for, if the facsimile message was routed to the messaging platform;

    (i) storing the routed facsimile message on the messaging platform;

    (ii) determining a destination condition at a second time, the second time later than the first time; and

    (iii) transmitting the facsimile message to the destination if the destination condition was “

    answer”

    at the second time.

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