Web-based fax server for home or small business use

Applying IP and Web technologies and the inherent properties of a broadband router widely used at home or in small business, this paper presents a paperless, sharable, plug-and-play, Web-based fax server for multiple users. Instead of using email via a digital network as FoIP, the proposed fax server sends and receives fax documents via the public switched telephone network like the conventional analog fax machines do. The fax server users handle incoming and outgoing faxes by only Web browsers through an IP-based local area network composed of an off-the-shelf broadband router, the proposed fax server, and the users' computers. This paper introduces the system architecture and software driving techniques of the proposed fax server.