US 2003/0229666 A1Published application

Data input method and data input system

AssigneeNEC Corporation

InventorTakeshi Hasegawa

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Abstract

A management server receives from a server storing information a request that a data input job be executed and from a data input device a request to assign a data input job to itself. The management server makes a list of information to be digitized through data input, based on information held on itself and input-specific information obtained from the server storing information, and transmits the list to a data input device adequate to the data input job. The data input device selects information as data input preference. The data input device obtains the selected information from the server storing information. Through the data input device, its operator inputs the obtained information as computer-usable data. The input data is transmitted to the server storing information. The management server stores, updates, and manages diverse data about input jobs.

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Dependent claims

A data input method for use in a system comprising a management server, a server storing information, and at least one data input device, wherein the management server, the server storing information, and the data input device are interconnected via a network, said data input method comprises the steps of:

receiving, at a management server, a request for executing a data input job from the server storing information and from the data input device a request for assigning a data input job to itself;
at the management server, making a list of information to be digitized through data input, based on information held on said management server and input-specific information obtained from said requesting server storing information, and sending the list to said requesting data input device;
according to a selection submitted from the data input device, establishing a communication path between the data input device and the server storing information that holds the selected information to be digitized;
at the data input device, inputting the information to be digitized, obtained from the server storing information;
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sending the input data to the server storing information.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.