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US 2010/0077478 A1Published application
Method and Apparatus for Publishing Documents Over a Network
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsJonathan J. Hull, Marko Balabanovic, Peter Hart, Greg Wolff
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for publishing an electronic document on a network is described. In one embodiment, an apparatus for publishing an electronic document on a wide area network comprising at least one server and a client, a client having memory for storing an electronic document, and means for sending the electronic document to the server, wherein a URL is associated with the electronic document, a security key associated with the URL, and means for sending a URL to a user.
Claims17
An electronic document sending method comprising:
- accepting an electronic document;
- identifying a first file format of the accepted electronic document;
- converting the electronic document from the first file format to a second file format suitable for public disclosure by a World Wide Web (WWW) server;
- and
- sending the electronic document converted to the second file format to the WWW server for the public disclosure.
2 more elements
A publishing system comprising:
- a system to receive an electronic document and approve content of the electronic document, wherein responsive to the content of the electronic document being approved, the system to convert the electronic document from a first file format to a second file format and send the electronic document converted to the second file format to a server.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.