Granted Patent B2

US 9,948,826 · App. 14/606,519 · Granted Apr 17, 2018

Abstract

Claims (46)

1. A facsimile server comprising:

one or more facsimile boards;

a processor;

a computer readable media accessible by the processor storing computer instructions executable to perform a method comprising:

maintaining a set of entity information, wherein the set of entity information is associated with a plurality of tenants that can transmit faxes via the facsimile server, wherein each tenant comprises multiple owners and corresponds to a set of resources;

maintaining a database configured to store transmitted and received fax documents corresponding to the plurality of tenants;

receiving a facsimile document at the facsimile server, wherein the facsimile document comprises a document to be transmitted;

identifying a sending tenant associated with the document based on an identifier associated with the sending tenant that transmitted the document;

applying, independently of the set of resources of the sending tenant, settings associated with the sending tenant; and

faxing the document to a receiving tenant based on the applied settings from a fax number allocated to the sending tenant.

2. The facsimile server of claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of tenants has a corresponding fax number.

3. The facsimile server of claim 2 , wherein the facsimile document has metadata containing the fax number.

4. The facsimile server of claim 3 , wherein the identifying includes identifying the tenant based on the fax number metadata.

5. The facsimile server of claim 1 , wherein the identifier associated with each of the tenants is a domain name.

6. The facsimile server of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the plurality of tenants is associated with a plurality of users.

7. The facsimile server of claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of tenants shares system resources of the facsimile server.

8. The facsimile server of claim 1 , wherein the computer instructions are further executable to perform the steps of:

identifying a sending owner associated with the facsimile document;

applying one or more settings when faxing the facsimile document based on the sending owner.

9. A method comprising:

maintaining a set of entity information, wherein the set of entity information is associated with a plurality of tenants that can transmit faxes via a facsimile server, wherein each tenant comprises multiple owners and corresponds to a set of resources;

maintaining a database configured to store transmitted and received fax documents corresponding to the plurality of tenants;

receiving a facsimile document at the facsimile server, wherein the facsimile document comprises a document to be transmitted;

identifying a sending tenant associated with the document based on an identifier associated with the sending tenant that transmitted the document;

applying, independently of the set of resources of the sending tenant, settings associated with the sending tenant; and

faxing the document to a receiving tenant based on the applied settings from a fax number allocated to the sending tenant.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein each of the plurality of tenants has a corresponding fax number.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the facsimile document has metadata containing the fax number.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the identifying includes identifying the tenant based on the fax number metadata.

13. The method of claim 9 , wherein the identifier is a domain name.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein each of the plurality of tenants has a different domain name.

15. The method of claim 9 , wherein at least one of the plurality of tenants is associated with a plurality of users.

16. The method of claim 9 , wherein each of the plurality of tenants shares system resources of a facsimile server.

17. The method of claim 9 , wherein the method further includes:

identifying a sending owner associated with the facsimile document;

applying one or more settings when faxing the facsimile document based on the sending owner.

18. A non-transitory computer program product comprising at least one computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code portions stored therein, the computer readable code portions to perform a method comprising:

maintaining a set of entity information, wherein the set of entity information is associated with a plurality of tenants that can transmit faxes via a facsimile server, wherein each tenant comprises multiple owners and corresponds to a set of resources;

maintaining a database configured to store transmitted and received fax documents corresponding to the plurality of tenants;

receiving a facsimile document at the facsimile server, wherein the facsimile document comprises a document to be transmitted;

identifying a sending tenant associated with the document based on an identifier associated with the sending tenant that transmitted the document;

applying, independently of the set of resources of the sending tenant, settings associated with the sending tenant; and

faxing the document to a receiving tenant based on the applied settings from a fax number allocated to the sending tenant.

19. The non-transitory computer program of claim 18 , wherein the computer readable code portions are further executable to perform the steps of:

identifying a sending owner associated with the facsimile document;

applying one or more settings when faxing the facsimile document based on the sending owner.

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