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Article #4[INFO] Brooktroot FaxBack patent
From: Michael A. Shiels
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 01:54
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 01:54
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Well I have finally been able to dig up some information on this patent. Application number 192,839 Filed 1988-05-11 (yyyy-mm-dd) Patent number 4,918,722 Date 1990-04-17 Abstract Delivery of binary encoded character data and facsimile encoded data to a specified recipient is controlled rapidly, simply and with versatility, by, e.g., DTMF commands sent by a user. My overview It looks from the text as if they want to patent any remote retrieval of faxes which can definantly hurt anyone doing software for FaxBack type services or business people trying to retrieve faxes while on the road etc. --- This patent is being fought by a group called the 'Fax Response Industry Asoociation (FRIA)' Dialogic Corp in Parsippany NJ GammaLink Inc Ibex Technologies Inc. AudioFax FaxBack Inc. -- --- Michael A. Shiels | mshiels@masnet.uucp MaS Network Software and Consulting | mshiels@tmsoftware.ca
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Newsgroups: comp.patents Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!batcomputer!munnari.oz.au!metro!basser.cs.su.oz.au!news From: mshiels@TMSoftware.Ca (Michael A. Shiels) Subject: [INFO] Brooktroot FaxBack patent Organization: MaS Network Software and Consulting Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 01:54:40 GMT Approved: patents@cs.su.oz.au Message-ID: <1992Oct29.064815.2925@cs.su.oz.au> Sender: mshiels@tmsoft (Michael A. Shiels) Lines: 39