| 摘要 |
Devices, such as FAX machines (201, 207), which are intended to communicate with each other over point-to-point dial-up (i.e. telephone) communication networks and, thus, do not affix electronic addresses to their message content, can be made to successfully communicate with addressable electronic mailboxes, such as those common on The Internet, by interfacing with an internet/FAX server (203, 205) which determines an appropriate network address and repackages the communication for a packet-switching communication network. The electronic address can be derived directly from information specified from the transmitting FAX station including: machine-readable graphics (e.g., barcodes or OCR text) embedded within the FAX content, DTMF keypad tones, a digital FAX ID field or new digital information field; or indirectly by table-look-up based on data including: the DID, caller ID, FAX ID field. In particular, when an EMail message is delivered from the internet to a FAX, via such an internet/FAX server, a return coversheet can be provided which will automatically route any return FAX to the original EMail box.
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