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Abstract

A method and system for forming a digital facsimile message that includes a subaddress. A source terminal forms a digital facsimile message by using information input by a user in response to prompting inquiries generated by the source terminal. In response to a prompt, a user enters whether the user will enter a subaddress to route the message to a destination terminal. If an affirmative response is received, the source terminal prompts the user to input the subaddress and later to input a telephone number of a destination server which services the destination terminal. The source terminal receives a response from a user indicating whether the subaddress is used for the routing of the digital facsimile message. Based on the input data, the source terminal forms a digital facsimile message that includes the subaddress of the destination terminal. The message may then be sent over a communications channel to the destination server, which then routes the message to the destination terminal. The destination server may convert the subaddress into a matching Internet Protocol address of the destination terminal so that the destination server may route the source terminal's incoming message over the Internet to the destination terminal. The source terminal may also form a polling message by prompting the user to insert specific information, where the polling message allows a user to retrieve data files from the destination terminal.

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