Multimedia fax-MIME interworking

Author

Patel, Sanjiv P. ; Henderson, G. ; Georganas, N.D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Ottawa Univ., Ont., Canada

fYear

1994

fDate

15-19 May 1994

Firstpage

325

Lastpage

330

Abstract

We present the architecture of an application level fax-Internet gateway, and show how such a gateway could be utilised to facilitate multimedia messaging and to extend Internet services to the home or office. We propose the application of the latest developments in the facsimile and Internet worlds, notably MIME and BFT support for Group3 protocols, for the exchange of multimedia messages (documents) between both environments as well as providing Internet e-mail, file transfer and Internet news services to fax users. Such services would be of most benefit to Internet novices and those users who do not have access to Internet via dialup/SLIP or freenet facilities. Various aspects of the gateway are discussed in detail. The implementation of such a gateway would make multimedia at home a very practical reality

Keywords

facsimile; internetworking; multimedia systems; protocols; standards; BFT support; Group3 protocols; Internet news services; MIME; application level fax-Internet gateway; facsimile; file transfer; freenet facilities; multimedia fax-MIME interworking; multimedia messaging; Image communication, facsimile; Internetworking; Multimedia communication; Protocols; Standards;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1994., Proceedings of the International Conference on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5530-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMCS.1994.292475

Filename

292475