WO1997025810A1 - Systeme et procede de certification de telecopie - Google Patents
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- WO1997025810A1 WO1997025810A1 PCT/FR1997/000029 FR9700029W WO9725810A1 WO 1997025810 A1 WO1997025810 A1 WO 1997025810A1 FR 9700029 W FR9700029 W FR 9700029W WO 9725810 A1 WO9725810 A1 WO 9725810A1
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- H—ELECTRICITY
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- H04N1/00—Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
- H04N1/32—Circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device, e.g. between a still-image camera and its memory or between a still-image camera and a printer device
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- H—ELECTRICITY
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- H04N1/2166—Intermediate information storage for mass storage, e.g. in document filing systems
- H04N1/2179—Interfaces allowing access to a plurality of users, e.g. connection to electronic image libraries
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- H—ELECTRICITY
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- H04N1/32—Circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device, e.g. between a still-image camera and its memory or between a still-image camera and a printer device
- H04N1/32358—Circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device, e.g. between a still-image camera and its memory or between a still-image camera and a printer device using picture signal storage, e.g. at transmitter
- H04N1/324—Circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device, e.g. between a still-image camera and its memory or between a still-image camera and a printer device using picture signal storage, e.g. at transmitter intermediate the transmitter and receiver terminals, e.g. at an exchange
- H04N1/32406—Circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device, e.g. between a still-image camera and its memory or between a still-image camera and a printer device using picture signal storage, e.g. at transmitter intermediate the transmitter and receiver terminals, e.g. at an exchange in connection with routing or relaying, e.g. using a fax-server or a store-and-forward facility
- H04N1/32411—Handling instructions for routing or relaying
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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- H04N1/00—Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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- H04N2201/00—Indexing scheme relating to scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, and to details thereof
- H04N2201/32—Circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device, e.g. between a still-image camera and its memory or between a still-image camera and a printer device
- H04N2201/3201—Display, printing, storage or transmission of additional information, e.g. ID code, date and time or title
- H04N2201/3212—Display, printing, storage or transmission of additional information, e.g. ID code, date and time or title of data relating to a job, e.g. communication, capture or filing of an image
- H04N2201/3218—Display, printing, storage or transmission of additional information, e.g. ID code, date and time or title of data relating to a job, e.g. communication, capture or filing of an image of a confirmation, acknowledgement or receipt
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- a system for certifying the contents of a facsimile as required and a method of implementing the system are provided.
- the exchange of information and the commitments entered into are increasingly carried out by fax, so that the use of the latter as legal evidence is more and more frequent.
- faxes can be challenged as legal evidence on several aspects such as the absence of identification of the sender or recipient of the fax, the certainty that the pages received correspond to those sent in number and content, etc ....
- these systems are complicated to implement by their users because they require a cumbersome procedure which cannot be automated.
- An object of the present invention is therefore to provide a facsimile certification system by third party certification which is fully automatic and protected from any forgery.
- the invention relates to a fax certification system by third party certification, characterized in that it comprises: - fax transmission / reception means in which the signals received for each fax are recorded in a memory, - means of identifying the characteristics of the sender and recipient of the fax,
- - decision-making means which, on the basis of identification characteristics and specific criteria, determine whether or not the fax received is redirected to the recipient and whether a message is sent to the sender, and
- the fax transmission / reception means, the means of identifying the characteristics of the sender and of the recipient and the decision means are produced by a computer in which electronic fax transmission / reception cards available in the trade and in which are registered appropriate software which are also commercially available such as software for processing fax signals, received or to be transmitted, for analyzing fax signals to recognize alphanumeric characters, for identifying the meaning of the alphanumeric characters, for checking the recording means.
- the sender must, in a variant, make a prepayment of the certification services and the system then also comprises, means for managing the prepayments which consist essentially by appropriate software, also commercially available.
- the various means listed above are enclosed in a closed enclosure which is sealed by a bailiff, the only connections of the enclosure vis-à-vis the outside being the fax telephone line (s), a socket outlet. power supply associated with a switch, an input / output device of the computer diskette with access control button, an input / output device of the recording medium with access control button and a alarm device.
- the computer diskette can only contain information and / or instructions relating to the management of prepayments without any relation to the processing of faxes and their management.
- the invention also relates to a fax certification method by third party certification by the certification system described above, characterized in that it comprises the following steps: a) transmission by the sender of a fax to be certified to the system certification, said fax having a format determined for the first page to indicate the characteristics of the sender and of the recipient, b) reception of the fax to be certified by the certification system and recording of the signals received for each fax in a memory, c) analysis of the signals received for each fax and corresponding to the first page to identify the characteristics of the sender and of the recipient, d) analysis of the identified characteristics of the sender and of the recipient, e) in the event that the results of the analysis of the characteristics is not satisfactory, emission of an error message to the sender , f) in the case where the results of the analysis of the characteristics are satisfactory, transmission to the recipient of the received fax
- the method further comprises the step of comparing the characteristics of the sender with those of the people who have made prepayments so as not to authorize the redirection of the fax to the recipient only if the sender's prepayment credit is sufficient with regard to the certification price.
- FIG. 1 is a functional diagram of a facsimile certification system according to the present invention.
- a fax certification system 10 by third-party certification comprises, as shown in the functional diagram of FIG. 1, a fax transmission / reception device 12, a device 14 for identifying the characteristics of the sender and the recipient of fax, a decision device 16 which, on the basis of the characteristics identified and of specific criteria, decides whether or not to redirect the recipient to the recipient of the received fax and a device 18 for recording the received fax on an erasable medium after a first entry, it that is to say a non-rewritable medium.
- the devices 12, 14 and 16 are in fact produced using a computer 22 equipped with additional electronic cards and suitably programmed as will be described below.
- the fax transmission / reception device 12 is of conventional type and comprises at least one input / output telephone line so as to allow reception or transmission of a fax.
- Each electronic card CF1 to CF8 very schematically comprises a modem MOD1 to MOD8 to receive and transmit the fax signals and a memory MF1 to MF8 to record the signals received or to be transmitted.
- the signals recorded in the memories MF1 to MF8 are processed by the computer 22 using an appropriate software, for example that known under the trade mark WINFAX and marketed by the company BVRP SOFTWARE.
- the device 14 for identifying the characteristics of the sender and recipient of the fax analyzes the signals received corresponding to the first page of the fax in order to recognize the alphanumeric characters and to interpret them.
- This first page has a particular format as shown in TABLE 1, the information contained in this first page being essential for the operation of the system of the invention.
- This first page is, for example, divided into four parts PI, P2, P3 and P4.
- the PI part indicates the legal value which is attributed to the fax whose content is listed on the following pages, namely: "Certified Fax" or "Recommended Confirmation in Pre-Payment”.
- Part P2 identifies the recipient of the fax by name, address and fax line number. This P2 part also indicates the total number of pages of the fax and whether it is URGENT or NOT. Finally, this part identifies the sender of the fax by name, address and fax and possibly telephone numbers. In addition, an identification code can be assigned to the sender as an accredited user of the system.
- the P3 part is reserved for free text while the P4 part is reserved for giving general information for the use of the sender but especially of the recipient.
- the information in part P2 is essential. To simplify their identification, they will preferably be placed in boxes whose positions on the page are perfectly defined.
- the identification device 14 comprises software for analyzing the facsimile signals to determine the alphanumeric characters of the first page or at least of the P2 part and an alphanumeric character recognition software to identify the elements of the P2 part.
- Such software is for example commercially sold under the brand EASY RIDER ELITE and is sold by the company INNOVATIC.
- the decision device 16 is produced by the computer 22 in the form of appropriate software and the decisions taken depend on the characteristics identified or not of the part P2 of the first page of the fax. In the event that the identification of the information contained in the part P2 does not reveal any error, the fax which has been received on one of the telephone lines LT1 to LT8, is re-transmitted in the state as received, to the identified recipient the identified number of the recipient's telephone line.
- the received fax will be recorded in the state as received on an erasable recording medium after a first recording, that is to say non-rewritable, by the through a recording device 18.
- the recording medium is, for example, a disc of the compact disc type, read only, better known by the English abbreviation "CD-ROM” and the recording device 18 will be a CD disc "burner" -ROM.
- CD-ROM disc recording device is for example that sold under the reference CDR102 by YAMAHA MUSIQUE FRANCE.
- Such a recording device is under the control of computer 22 by means of appropriate software such as that sold under the brand EASY-CD PRO by the company INCAT SYSTEMS.
- This recording medium must make it possible to keep a copy of the fax received which is the indelible, faithful and lasting reproduction of the document received by irreversibly modifying a medium.
- a medium will be defined as being non-rewritable, that is to say, it cannot be rewritten or erased after a first registration.
- the computer 22 implements, in addition to the software which has been mentioned above, other so-called management software which will be described more fully below, in relation to the description of the operation of the system.
- the computer 22, including the electronic cards CF1 to CF8, and the recording device 18 are enclosed in an enclosure 20 which is sealed by a bailiff.
- the only connections between the elements enclosed in this enclosure and the outside world are:
- an alarm device 34 for example an audible one, to indicate the existence of a system error status message.
- an alarm device 34 for example an audible one, to indicate the existence of a system error status message.
- CD-ROM discs 32 these are first of all numbered indelibly by a bailiff on one and / or the other of their faces.
- the floppy disk 30 constitutes the only access to the computer 22 and can only contain information and / or instructions relating to the management of the system, this information and / or instructions therefore having no connection with the processing of faxes.
- the operation of the system of FIG. 1 will now be described in the case where a fax sender wishes that his fax be certified as to its date and its content.
- the sender In order to benefit from such a certification service, the sender must be recognized as a user who has subscribed to the certification system by contract with prepayment of a sum credited to the user's account.
- this service could work without this aspect.
- the different users of the system will have to sign a contract under which they will be assigned a code number and an amount according to the monetary value of the prepayment made.
- each user file will also include his address, fax number and possibly his telephone number.
- the steps for processing received faxes are as follows: 1. Arrival of a fax,
- F2 and F3 files are saved on the CD-ROM disc and contain the following information:
- this information may be in the form of codes.
- the facsimile certification method comprises the following steps: a) transmission by the sender of a facsimile to be certified to the certification system, said facsimile having a format determined for the first page to indicate the characteristics of the sender, recipient and fax, b) reception of the fax to be certified by the certification system and recording of the signals received for each fax in a memory, c) analysis of the signals received for each fax and corresponding to the first page to identify the characteristics of the sender, of the recipient and of the fax, d) analysis of the characteristics of the sender, of the recipient and of the fax, e) in the event that the results of the analysis are not satisfactory, emission of an error message to the sender, f) in the event that the results of the analysis are satisfied doing, sending to the recipient of the received fax, g) recording on the non-rewritable recording medium (32) of the received fax as it is stored in said memory and of the characteristics of the received fax, the decision made and
- the sender may be interested in receiving, at its expense, a confirmation by fax of a document sent, for example an order for products and / or services.
- the invention provides that the sender sends, by any means, to the addressee of the order, a page whose PI zone includes the mention: "Confirmation Recommended in Pre-Payment”.
- the P2 area includes the characteristics of the sender and the recipient, but in this case, the recipient is in fact the initial sender who is interested in receiving this confirmation, sender who is a user of the certification system and to whom has been assigned. a code number for prepayment transactions. It is therefore the code number of the original sender that appears on this page. This page can be sent by the original sender either by normal fax, certified fax or any other means.
- the user code is subject, in a variant, to encryption processing using the transmission to the sender and reverse decryption processing in the certification system.
- the user of the certification system receives a floppy disk or an electronic card compatible with his facsimile machine which can be a microcomputer equipped with a WINFAX or other device.
- the floppy disk or electronic card contains software for processing the user code of so as to arrive at a new code which can only be decrypted by the certification system using appropriate software.
- This diskette can also contain the format of the first page of the fax, whether it is a "Certified Fax" or a "Recommended Confirmation in Pre-Payment".
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EP97900246A EP0873648A1 (fr) | 1996-01-08 | 1997-01-08 | Systeme et procede de certification de telecopie |
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FR9600138A FR2743460B1 (fr) | 1996-01-08 | 1996-01-08 | Systeme et procede de certification de telecopie |
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CA2242951A1 (fr) | 1997-07-17 |
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