Appeal No. 96-2040
Application No. 08/221,370
The invention is directed to a system and method for
facsimile load balancing. More particularly, in a system
containing a plurality of facsimile machines, when the
workload of a first facsimile machine exceeds a predetermined
value, a stored data file from the first facsimile machine is
transferred to another facsimile machine for transmission to a
designated recipient by the other facsimile machine rather
than the first facsimile machine.
Representative independent claim 75 is reproduced as
follows:
75. A method in first and second facsimile machines for
facsimile communication, the first and second facsimile
machines being coupled together with the first facsimile
machine having a workload value corresponding to a plurality
of data files stored in the first facsimile machine awaiting
transmission to corresponding designated recipients, the
method comprising the steps of:
determining the workload for the first facsimile machine;
and if said determined workload value exceeds a threshold
value, transferring at least a first stored data file from the
first facsimile machine to the second facsimile machine.
The examiner relies on the following reference:
Mizutori et al. (Mizutori) 4,967,288 Oct. 30,
1990
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