Document auto-routing using a digital transmitter cover sheet
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorRodney C. Harris
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Abstract
This invention relates to digital transmitter cover sheets. Such systems of this type, generally, employ a cover sheet that authenticates the user of the digital transmitter, provides information regarding the auto-routing transmittal of the document to the desired recipient, and provides information regarding any post-processing of the document.
Claims20
A method for using a digital transmitting device to authenticate a user, transmit a document, and carry-out post-processing instructions, comprising the steps of:
- entering information on an actual user personalized cover sheet regarding a destination and post-processing instructions, if any, of a document to be transmitted by a digital transmitting device;
- scanning said cover sheet and said document by said digital transmitting device;
- authenticating a user by said digital transmitting device;
- transmitting said document to a recipient;
- and
- carrying out said post-processing instructions.
A program storage medium readable by computer, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by said computer to perform the method steps for using a digital transmitting device to authenticate a user, transmit a document, and carry-out post-processing instructions, comprising the steps of:
- entering information on an actual user personalized cover sheet regarding a destination and post-processing instructions, if any, of a document to be transmitted by a digital transmitting device;
- scanning said cover sheet and said document by said digital transmitting device;
- authenticating a user by said digital transmitting device;
- transmitting said document to a recipient;
- and
- carrying out said post-processing instructions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.