A distributed fax messaging system

Author

Hui, S.C. ; Chan, K.Y. ; Leung, M.K. ; Qian, G.Y.

Author_Institution

Div. of Comput. Eng, Nanyang Techol. Univ., Singapore

fYear

1995

fDate

3-7 Jul 1995

Firstpage

393

Lastpage

397

Abstract

The paper describes a distributed fax messaging system (AutoFax) with the capability of manipulating fax messages. The objective of the system is to recognize, store and route fax messages automatically in a distributed environment. Fax message images are interpreted and routed to the appropriate receiver´s mailbox. In addition, the contents of each fax message are recognized and stored according to their logical and layout formats in order to reduce the amount of storage required. The proposed system is based on a client-server architecture. The server is responsible for recognizing and storing fax messages. The client provides an interface for the user to compose, manage and send fax messages. The construction of the AutoFax system is based on an object-oriented approach with an object-oriented database system (ODBMS)

Keywords

client-server systems; facsimile; object-oriented databases; object-oriented methods; AutoFax system; ODBMS; client-server architecture; distributed environment; distributed fax messaging system; fax message recognition; fax message routing; fax message storage; layout format; local area network; logical format; mailbox; object-oriented approach; object-oriented database system; personal computers; Computer architecture; Distributed computing; Image databases; Image recognition; Image sequence analysis; Information retrieval; Network servers; Object oriented databases; Telephony; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks, 1995. Theme: Electrotechnology 2000: Communications and Networks. [in conjunction with the] International Conference on Information Engineering., Proceedings of IEEE Singapore International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2579-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SICON.1995.526315

Filename

526315