# US 2016/0366240 A1 · Offline mobile capture > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2016/0366240 A1 - Document ID: US20160366240A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 14/735,251 - Filed: 2015-06-10 - Published: 2016-12-15 - Earliest claimed: 2015-06-10 - Assignees: Ricoh Company, Ltd. - Inventors: Tom Haapanen; Qinlei Fan - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20160366240A1 ## CPC - H04L 67/568: Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching - H04L 41/22: comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI] - H04N 1/00514: {for individual users} - H04N 1/00949: {Combining applications, e.g. to create workflows (allocation of computer machine resources considering the execution order of a plurality of tasks G06F9/5038)} - H04N 1/0097: {Storage of instructions or parameters, e.g. customised instructions or different parameters for different user IDs} - H04N 1/32122: {in a separate device, e.g. in a memory or on a display separate from image data} - H04N 2201/3276: of a customised additional information profile, e.g. a profile specific to a user ID - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION ## 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. ## Claims ### Claim 1 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; and 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. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The content capture application as claimed in claim 1, wherein when the user selects, while the terminal apparatus is connected to the content management apparatus, a specified workflow from the user interface workflows maintained by the content management apparatus, the user interface module caches the metadata screens of the specified workflow in the workflow cache maintained in the local storage of the terminal apparatus. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The content capture application as claimed in claim 1, wherein when the user enters the metadata via the metadata screens of the selected workflow while the terminal apparatus is not connected to the content management apparatus, the user interface module updates the cached workflow in the local storage of the terminal apparatus to include the user-entered metadata populating the metadata screens. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The content capture application as claimed in claim 1, wherein the user interface module updates the cached workflow in the local storage of the terminal apparatus to include the metadata entered by the user via the metadata screens of the selected workflow, and the user interface module tracks the updated workflows amongst the cached workflows in the local storage, and when the terminal apparatus is connected to the content management apparatus after the cached workflow in the local storage is updated, the user interface module provides a user interface prompt indicating a number of the updated workflows cached in the local storage and prompting the user to submit the updated workflows to the content management apparatus for update of the user interface workflows maintained by the content management apparatus for the user. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The content capture application as claimed in claim 4, wherein the user interface prompt indicating the number of the updated workflows cached in the local storage of the terminal apparatus remains on the terminal display of the terminal apparatus until the user submits the updated workflows to the content management apparatus. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The content capture application as claimed in claim 1, wherein if the terminal apparatus is not connected to the content management apparatus upon capture of the content image, the content image is cached in the local storage of the terminal apparatus and when the terminal apparatus is thereafter connected to the content management apparatus and login by the user has been authenticated, the user interface module provides on the terminal display of the terminal apparatus a user interface prompt notifying the user of content images cached on the terminal apparatus and including a submit offline content images part to receive user instruction to submit the cached content images to the content management apparatus. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The content capture application as claimed in claim 6, wherein when the user selects the submit offline content images part of the user interface prompt, the user interface module provides on the terminal display of the terminal apparatus a confirmation screen displaying a list of the cached content images to be submitted and permitting the user to remove one or more content images from the list. ### Claim 8 (depends on 6) The content capture application as claimed in claim 6, wherein when the user selects the submit offline content images part of the user interface prompt, the user interface module provides on the terminal display of the terminal apparatus a confirmation screen displaying a list of the cached content images to be submitted and permitting the user to select one of the content images from the list, and upon user selection, provides a metadata confirmation screen showing the metadata associated with the selected content image and permitting the user to edit said metadata associated with the selected content image. ### Claim 9 (depends on 6) The content capture application as claimed in claim 6, wherein the user interface module caches the metadata entered by the user via the metadata screens of the selected workflow, in the local storage of the terminal apparatus, when the terminal apparatus is not connected to the content management apparatus, and when the user selects the submit offline content images part of the user interface prompt when the terminal apparatus is thereafter connected to the content management apparatus, the user interface module provides on the terminal display of the terminal apparatus an edit metadata screen, if the cached metadata associated with one of the cached content images includes errors or is incomplete, to permit the user to correct the errors in the metadata or to enter information missing in the incomplete metadata. ### Claim 10 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; and 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; and 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. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The content capture system as claimed in claim 10, wherein when the user selects, while the terminal apparatus is connected to the content management apparatus, a specified workflow from the user interface workflows maintained by the content management apparatus, the user interface module caches the metadata screens of the specified workflow in the workflow cache maintained in the local storage of the terminal apparatus. ### Claim 12 (depends on 10) The content capture system as claimed in claim 10, wherein when the user enters the metadata via the metadata screens of the selected workflow while the terminal apparatus is not connected to the content management apparatus, the user interface module updates the cached workflow in the local storage of the terminal apparatus to include the user-entered metadata populating the metadata screens. ### Claim 13 (depends on 10) The content capture system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the user interface module updates the cached workflow in the local storage of the terminal apparatus to include the metadata entered by the user via the metadata screens of the selected workflow, and the user interface module tracks the updated workflows amongst the cached workflows in the local storage, and when the terminal apparatus is connected to the content management apparatus after the cached workflow in the local storage is updated, the user interface module provides a user interface prompt indicating a number of the updated workflows cached in the local storage and prompting the user to submit the updated workflows to the content management apparatus for update of the user interface workflows maintained by the content management apparatus for the user. ### Claim 14 (depends on 10) The content capture system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the content management apparatus registers, for each authorized user amongst plural authorized users, one or more user interface workflows specific to the authorized user and retrievable by the authorized user upon login authentication of the user. ### Claim 15 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. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The method as claimed in claim 15, further comprising: caching in the workflow cache maintained in the local storage of the terminal apparatus the metadata screens of a specified workflow selected, while the terminal apparatus is connected to the content management apparatus, by the user from the user interface workflows maintained by the content management apparatus. ### Claim 17 (depends on 15) The method as claimed in claim 15, further comprising: updating the cached workflow in the local storage of the terminal apparatus, when the user enters the metadata via the metadata screens of the selected workflow while the terminal apparatus is not connected to the content management apparatus, to include the user-entered metadata populating the metadata screens. ### Claim 18 (depends on 15) The method as claimed in claim 15, further comprising: updating the cached workflow in the local storage of the terminal apparatus to include the metadata entered by the user via the metadata screens of the selected workflow; tracking the updated workflows amongst the cached workflows in the local storage; and providing, when the terminal apparatus is connected to the content management apparatus after the cached workflow in the local storage is updated, a user interface prompt indicating a number of the updated workflows cached in the local storage and prompting the user to submit the updated workflows to the content management apparatus for update of the user interface workflows maintained by the content management apparatus for the user.