CA2161474A1 - Method and Apparatus for Processing Facsimile Transmissions - Google Patents

Method and Apparatus for Processing Facsimile Transmissions

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CA2161474A1
CA2161474A1 CA2161474A CA2161474A CA2161474A1 CA 2161474 A1 CA2161474 A1 CA 2161474A1 CA 2161474 A CA2161474 A CA 2161474A CA 2161474 A CA2161474 A CA 2161474A CA 2161474 A1 CA2161474 A1 CA 2161474A1
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advertisement
user
sheet
information
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Robert Edward Markowitz
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AT&T Corp
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N1/00—Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
    • H04N1/32—Circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device, e.g. between a still-image camera and its memory or between a still-image camera and a printer device
    • H04N1/32101—Display, printing, storage or transmission of additional information, e.g. ID code, date and time or title
    • H04N1/32128—Display, printing, storage or transmission of additional information, e.g. ID code, date and time or title attached to the image data, e.g. file header, transmitted message header, information on the same page or in the same computer file as the image
    • H04N1/32133—Display, printing, storage or transmission of additional information, e.g. ID code, date and time or title attached to the image data, e.g. file header, transmitted message header, information on the same page or in the same computer file as the image on the same paper sheet, e.g. a facsimile page header
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N1/00—Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
    • H04N1/00127—Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture signals or of information associated with a still picture
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N1/00—Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
    • H04N1/387—Composing, repositioning or otherwise geometrically modifying originals
    • H04N1/3872—Repositioning or masking
    • H04N1/3873—Repositioning or masking defined only by a limited number of coordinate points or parameters, e.g. corners, centre; for trimming
    • H04N1/3875—Repositioning or masking defined only by a limited number of coordinate points or parameters, e.g. corners, centre; for trimming combined with enlarging or reducing
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N1/00—Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
    • H04N1/00127—Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture signals or of information associated with a still picture
    • H04N1/00204—Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture signals or of information associated with a still picture with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N2201/00—Indexing scheme relating to scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, and to details thereof
    • H04N2201/32—Circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device, e.g. between a still-image camera and its memory or between a still-image camera and a printer device
    • H04N2201/3201—Display, printing, storage or transmission of additional information, e.g. ID code, date and time or title
    • H04N2201/3261—Display, printing, storage or transmission of additional information, e.g. ID code, date and time or title of multimedia information, e.g. a sound signal
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N2201/00—Indexing scheme relating to scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, and to details thereof
    • H04N2201/32—Circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device, e.g. between a still-image camera and its memory or between a still-image camera and a printer device
    • H04N2201/3201—Display, printing, storage or transmission of additional information, e.g. ID code, date and time or title
    • H04N2201/3278—Transmission

Abstract

A telephone network carrying a facsimile transmission transmitted by a user from a facsimile transmission source modifies the user's facsimile transmission by incorporating with the user's facsimile information at least one advertisement, so as to form a combination facsimile transmission that is transmitted to a destination specified by the user. Ultimately, when the facsimile is printed or displayed, the advertisement will be printed or displayed as well. One or more "sheets" of facsimile information contained within the original facsimile transmission of the user may have an advertisement included therewith. The advertisement incorporated with each sheet may, but need not, be the same. The particular advertisements being incorporated with the user's facsimile information are independent of the content of the user's facsimile information, although they may be selected as a function of one or more parameters of the call over which the facsimile transmission travels.
Depending on the option chosen, the advertisement may a) be placed into any available "white space" in which it will fit on the sheet of the facsimile information, i.e., the advertisement will not overwrite any of the user's facsimile information, b) be placed in available white space only in the margin areas of the sheet, or c) the image of the sheet may be shrunk slightly and the advertisement placed in the resulting available white space. Optionally, in exchange for agreeing to the inclusion of the advertisement the facsimile transmitter and/or the facsimile receiver are granted a discount on the cost of the call.
CA002161474A 1994-12-28 1995-10-26 Method and apparatus for processing facsimile transmissions Expired - Fee Related CA2161474C (en)

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US365,611 1994-12-28
US08/365,611 US5513254A (en) 1994-12-28 1994-12-28 Method and apparatus for processing facsimile transmissions

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