Data stream enabled return mail services
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorNicole Blohm
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Abstract
In an embodiment, an apparatus comprises one or more processors and one or more memories communicatively coupled to the one or more processors and storing instructions which, when processed by the one or more processors, cause: receiving a digital image of a particular item of mail and storing the digital image; causing data to be extracted from the digital image using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) or by processing encoded data; based on the extracted data, matching the particular item of mail to particular mailing data from the data stream; determining, based, at least in part, on the extracted data and the particular mailing data, one or more actions to take with respect to the particular item of mail and, in response, causing performance of the one or more actions.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- one or more memories communicatively coupled to the one or more processors and storing instructions which, when processed by the one or more processors, cause:
- receiving a data stream comprising initial mailing data for a plurality of items of mail;
- receiving data extracted from a digital image of a particular item of mail using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) or by processing encoded data;
- based on the extracted data, matching the particular item of mail to particular mailing data from the data stream;
- determining, based, at least in part, on the extracted data and the particular mailing data, one or more actions to take with respect to the particular item of mail and, in response, causing performance of the one or more actions.
One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause performance of:
- receiving a data stream comprising initial mailing data for a plurality of items of mail;
- receiving data extracted from a digital image of a particular item of mail using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) or by processing encoded data;
- based on the extracted data, matching the particular item of mail to particular mailing data from the data stream;
- determining, based, at least in part, on the extracted data and the particular mailing data, one or more actions to take with respect to the particular item of mail and, in response, causing performance of the one or more actions.
A method comprising:
- receiving a data stream comprising initial mailing data for a plurality of items of mail;
- receiving a data extracted from a digital image of a particular item of mail using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) or by processing encoded data;
- based on the extracted data, matching the particular item of mail to particular mailing data from the data stream;
- determining, based, at least in part, on the extracted data and the particular mailing data, one or more actions to take with respect to the particular item of mail and, in response, causing performance of the one or more actions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.