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Method and apparatus for the primary and secondary routing of fax mesages using hand printed characters

  • US 5,247,591 A
  • Filed: 10/10/1990
  • Issued: 09/21/1993
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/10/1990
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A family of N different machine recognizable fax data sheets to be read automatically by a receiving fax server wherein each of said N different fax data sheets individually instructs said fax server as to the layout, format and processing of the data at each data location included in that fax data sheet, each of said fax data sheets comprising:

  • a web for receiving information to be transmitted to said receiving fax server;

    at least one preprinted information receiving area on said web having a preselected location and format that corresponds with a particular one of said N different fax data sheets, wherein said at least one preprinted information receiving area includes;

    a first data receiving area being a constrained field for receiving hand written characters that designate the source of said fax data sheet; and

    a second data receiving area being a constrained field for receiving hand written characters that designate the destination of a message on said each fax data sheet;

    a unique preprinted machine readable identification pattern from a family of N such patterns, one such pattern for each of said N different fax data sheets, wherein each of said identification patterns corresponds with a particular one of said N different fax data sheets and is keyed to the location, format and definition of the processing of said at least one preprinted information receiving area of the corresponding fax data sheet of said family of fax data sheets; and

    a third data receiving area for receiving a message to be automatically secondarily transmitted to the destination identified in the second data area;

    wherein N is a positive integer of a least 2.

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