Supplementing facsimile image data
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1. A method comprising in connection with rendering fax image data representing an image of a document for transmission, also providing, in a manner that will not essentially obscure the image of the document, supplemental data that identifies the document and is not part of the image of the document.
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Abstract
Among other things, in connection with rendering fax image data representing an image of a document for transmission, supplemental data is also provided, in a manner that will not essentially obscure the image of the document. The supplemental data identifies the document and is not part of the image of the document.
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1. A method comprising
in connection with rendering fax image data representing an image of a document for transmission, also providing, in a manner that will not essentially obscure the image of the document, supplemental data that identifies the document and is not part of the image of the document.
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34. A method comprising
using a version of supplemental data, which identifies a document and is received in connection with a receipt of fax image data corresponding to an image of the document, to access information associated with the document that was stored in connection with the transmission of the fax image data.
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52. A method comprising
in connection with transmitting fax image data corresponding to images of two or more pages of a document, also transmitting, in a manner that will not essentially obscure the image, supplemental data that distinctly identifies each of the pages.
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66. A method comprising
in connection with rendering fax image data representing an image of a document for transmission, assigning identifying information to the document, incorporating the identifying information in the fax image data, and reporting the identifying information to an application.
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68. A method comprising
deriving information about a received fax document using supplemental data that was incorporated into the fax document, by a fax device from which the fax document was sent, at the time of transmission.
- 77. A medium bearing a fax document having non-character data in a header or footer, the data identifying the fax document.
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81. A method comprising
verifying that a fax document was transmitted at a specified date, time, and place by scanning the document to extract non-character data that identifies the document, and using the non-character data to access information stored at the time the fax was transmitted, the stored information indicating the date, time, and place of transmission.
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82. A method comprising
encoding a digital signature as part of a fax document.
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89. A method comprising
associating a received fax document with a stored version of the document using identification information transmitted as part of the fax.
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