Abstract: A method and apparatus to identify/process dynamically telephony data over each of a set of channels. A system has one or more ports providing a set of channels for transfer of various types of (telephony) data (e.g., voice, fax, data modem, video teleconferencing, etc.). Upon detection of a data transfer request (e.g., a “call”) on one or more channels, the system dynamically identifies the type of data as voice, fax, data modem, etc., on the channel(s) and executes appropriate routines to process and route the data.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for a relatively meaningful search and/or link operation to be performed within and/or between one or more electronic documents. According to one aspect of the invention, a method and apparatus is provided for extracting and storing text, image and/or location information of an electronic document. According to another aspect of the invention, a tag may be specified as label for a set of search and/or link (e.g., source and target) parameters, each having a set of "rules" associated therewith, for searching the stored text, image, and/or location information. According to yet another aspect of the invention, the set of parameters may include context (e.g., specified character/text patterns that may occur within and/or adjacent to one or more specified patterns) and/or location (e.g., a page number/range, a box on a page, a filename, tag, character/line offset, etc.) information/rules.