Claims
- 1. A method for retrieving Internet information using facsimile data received with a facsimile reception protocol, comprising:receiving facsimile data using a facsimile reception protocol, said facsimile data containing a portion linked to an Internet address; obtaining Internet address information for said portion of received facsimile data; automatically applying said obtained Internet address information for establishing establishing communication with said Internet address; retrieving information from said Internet address; and displaying at least one of the received facsimile data and the retrieved Internet information.
Parent Case Info
This application is a con of application Ser. No. 08/572,629 filed Dec. 14, 1995 now U.S. Pat. No. 5,838,458 is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/475,204, filed Jun. 7, 1995 now abandoned, which is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 08/137,718, filed Oct. 15, 1993 now U.S. Pat. No. 5,495,581, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/124,381, filed Sep. 17, 1993 now abandoned, which is a continuation of U.S. Ser. No. 07/918,150, filed Jul. 24, 1992, now abandoned, which is a continuation of Ser. No. 07/840,808, filed Feb. 25, 1992, now abandoned.
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