US 2006/0218404 A1 · Scanning device and document management system including the same

Abstract

A document management system includes a scanning device for reading necessary documents, such as contract documents and approval documents, that are required to be maintained, and generating scanned document data; a plurality of primary time-stamping servers for issuing time stamps with varying degrees of reliability, each server adding a time stamp to the scanned document data generated; a server selector for selecting a specific primary time-stamping server from the plurality of primary time-stamping servers according to the degree of importance of the scanned document data; and a document management server for receiving and storing the scanned document data with a time stamp given by the selected primary time-stamping server. The scanning device is configured to use one of the plurality of primary time-stamping servers to add a time stamp to scanned document data.

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Dependent claims

A document management system comprising:

a scanning device for reading necessary documents, such as contract documents and approval documents, that are required to be maintained, and generating scanned document data;
a plurality of primary time-stamping servers for issuing time stamps with varying degrees of reliability, each server adding a time stamp to the scanned document data generated;
a server selector for selecting a specific primary time-stamping server from the plurality of primary time-stamping servers according to the degree of importance of the scanned document data;
and
a document management server for receiving and storing the scanned document data with a time stamp given by the selected primary time-stamping server,
wherein the scanning device is configured to use one of the plurality of primary time-stamping servers to add a time stamp to scanned document data.

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A scanning device for adding a time stamp to scanned document data by using one of a plurality of primary time-stamping servers, the scanning device comprising:

a central control unit such as a CPU;
a control panel for controlling the central control unit;
a data reader for reading necessary documents, such as contract documents and approval documents, that are required to be maintained, and generating scanned document data under the control of the central control unit;
a server selector for selecting a specific primary time-stamping server from the plurality of primary time-stamping servers according to the degree of importance of the scanned document data;
a data transmitter for sending generated scanned document data to a specific primary time-stamping server;
and
a data receiver for receiving scanned document data with a time stamp given by a specific primary time-stamping server,
wherein the data transmitter is configured such that scanned document data with a time stamp is sent to and stored on a document management server.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Scanning device and document management system including the same

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