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Facsimile server system comprising a facsimile server and at least one remote facsimile

  • US 5,552,901 A
  • Filed: 01/28/1994
  • Issued: 09/03/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/01/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A facsimile server system which offers a facility of facsimile communication proceeding through a communication network, to at least one client connected to facsimile server system via a LAN (local area network), comprising:

  • a FAX (facsimile) server connected to said LAN, and at least one remote FAX connected to said LAN and said communication network;

    said FAX server including LAN control means for controlling a communication which proceeds through said LAN, document data storage means for storing therein at least one document data transferred from the client and requested to be transmitted via said communication network by said client, a transmission document table for registering therein that destination of the document data stored in said document data storage means which has been designated by said client, data conversion means for expanding said document data stored in said document data storage means, into image data on condition that said document data is not image data, and communication management means for transferring said image data which correspond to said document data requested to be transmitted, to the appropriate remote FAX, and for giving said appropriate remote FAX a command for performing the facsimile transmission to said destination which is registered in said transmission document table in correspondence with the transferred image data;

    said remote FAX including a LAN control unit for controlling a communication which proceeds through said LAN, a scanner for reading a pictorial image and then generating image data, a printer for printing a pictorial image expressed by image data, and FAX communication control means for performing the commanded facsimile transmission of the image data transferred from said FAX server, to the destination through said communication network.

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