Offline mobile capture
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsTom Haapanen, Qinlei Fan
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Abstract
Systems, apparatuses and methodologies to facilitate a capture-to-workflow feature on a terminal apparatus configured to upload captured content along with user specified metadata, via a network to a content management apparatus. Such terminal apparatus configured to enable to perform metadata entry using a cached workflow, even when the terminal apparatus is not connected via the network to the content management apparatus.
Claims18
A content capture application including one or more programs of instructions embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium and executable by a processor of a terminal apparatus to capture content and upload via a network to a content management apparatus having a capture-to-workflow feature, wherein the content capture application executable by the processor comprises:
- a network communication module that manages communications by the terminal apparatus through the network with the content management apparatus;
- a content capture module that captures user-specified content into a content image;
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- a user interface module that provides a login screen on a terminal display of the terminal apparatus to receive login information from a user for connecting to the content management apparatus, and when the terminal apparatus is connected to the content management apparatus, refreshes a workflow cache maintained in local storage of the terminal apparatus with user interface workflows each including one or more metadata screens from the content management apparatus,
- wherein if the terminal apparatus is not connected to the content management apparatus upon capture of the content image, the user interface module provides on the terminal display a user interface screen including a list of the cached workflows, for user selection of a cached workflow that includes metadata screens, and provides the metadata screens of the selected workflow on the terminal display to receive metadata from the user.
A content capture system including a capture-to-workflow feature and comprising:
- a content management apparatus including a storage device to register user interface workflows, each including one or more metadata screens, and to provide user interface workflows selectively;
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- a terminal apparatus including local storage, a terminal display, a processor and a content capture application including one or more programs of instructions embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium and executable by the processor to capture content and upload via a network to the content management apparatus, wherein the content capture application executable by the processor comprises:
- a network communication module that manages communications by the terminal apparatus through the network with the content management apparatus;
- a content capture module that captures user-specified content into a content image;
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- a user interface module that provides a login screen on the terminal display to receive login information from a user for connecting to the content management apparatus, and when the terminal apparatus is connected to the content management apparatus, refreshes a workflow cache maintained in the local storage of the terminal apparatus with the user interface workflows, from the content management apparatus,
- wherein if the terminal apparatus is not connected to the content management apparatus upon capture of the content image, the user interface module provides on the terminal display a user interface screen including a list of the cached workflows, for user selection of a cached workflow that includes metadata screens, and provides the metadata screens of the selected workflow on the terminal display to receive metadata from the user.
A capture-to-workflow method performed by a terminal apparatus that includes local storage, a terminal display and a processor and is configured to communicate through a network with a content management apparatus that registers user interface workflows, each including one or more metadata screens, and to provide the user interface workflows selectively, the method comprising:
- providing a login screen on the terminal display to receive login information from a user for connecting to the content management apparatus;
- refreshing a workflow cache maintained in the local storage of the terminal apparatus with the user interface workflows, from the content management apparatus, when the terminal apparatus is connected to the content management apparatus;
- capturing user-specified content into a content image, and if the terminal apparatus is not connected to the content management apparatus upon capture of the content image, providing on the terminal display a user interface screen including a list of the cached workflows, for user selection of a cached workflow that includes metadata screens and providing the metadata screens of the selected workflow on the terminal display to receive metadata from the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.