Appeal No. 1997-4018
Application No. 08/668,716
Appellants' invention relates to a facsimile machine
connected to a computer via an exclusive line and also to a
remote facsimile machine via a telephone line. Claim 13 is
illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads as
follows:
13. A facsimile machine, comprising:
means for scanning an image on a document,
means for storing image data associated with the scanned
image,
means for printing the stored image data,
a telephone line for connecting the facsimile machine to
a remote facsimile machine,
an exclusive line for connecting the facsimile machine to
a computer and through which digital signals are directly
deliverable to the facsimile machine from the computer,
means for transmitting image data between the facsimile
machine and the remote facsimile machine based on a standard
facsimile transmission procedure, the image data comprising at
least one of image data received from the computer and stored
in a memory and image data scanned by a scanner and stored in
a memory,
means for receiving an instruction command from the
computer,
means for transmitting image data between the facsimile
machine and the computer based on an instruction command
received from the computer,
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