Apparatus and system for obtaining and encrypting documentary materials
OwnerTharmalingam Satkunarajah, Kalayini Sathasivaminventors
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Abstract
The apparatus and systems provided herein relate to a distributed patent processing system. Such a system includes, in one particular arrangement web portals, mobile applications and an integrated secure network enabled hardware unit designed to capture documentary evidence relating to a technology or concept disclosure by an inventor. This disclosure is used to generate an encrypted data package for transmission to a national or international patent office. The package, upon receipt by one or more patent offices is accorded a priority and filing date just as in standard patent application filings.
Claims14
A multimedia presentation capture and encryption apparatus comprising:
- one or more audiovisual data capture devices configured to acquire and transmit audio and video data corresponding to a speaking engagement by at least one participant;
- at least one biometric authentication apparatus configured to acquire and transmit biometric data of the at least one participant;
- one or more physical document scanning devices configured to generate image data corresponding to the one or more physical documents, described by the at least one participant during the speaking engagement, and transmit the generated image data to a processor;
- a display device;
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- the processor, coupled to one or more audiovisual data capture devices, the biometric authentication apparatus, the one or more physical document scanning devices and the display device, having a memory and configured by program code executed thereby to:
- receive the audio and video data from the one or more audiovisual data capture device,
- extract a first video frame from the received audio and video data, output the video data to the display device,
- receive an input of a selection, by the at least one participant, of a second video frame of the video data output to the display device,
- convert the first video frame into a first converted image the and the second video frame into a second converted image file,
- identifying objects in the first converted image the and the second converted image file to reference in patent drawings;
- transcribe a portion of the received audio and video data into text data wherein the text data includes a description, by the at least one participant, of the first converted image file and the second converted image the,
- generate a patent document that includes at least the text data, and data corresponding to the first converted image file and the second converted image file
- wherein the combined data the includes information obtained from one or more physical documents scanned from the physical document scanning device, and
- wherein the text data includes text extracted from the one or more physical documents,
- receive the biometric data, encrypt the patent document using the biometric data, and transmit the encrypted the patent document over a network to a data file repository.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.