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US 7,397,468 B2Granted
Method and system for creating a document having metadata
AssigneePitney Bowes Inc.
InventorsJohn F. Braun, John W. Rojas, James R. Norris, Jean-Hiram Coffy, Arthur Parkos, Alan Leung, Wendy Chui Fen Leung
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Abstract
The present application describes systems and methods for creating a document having metadata using a pointing device such as a digital pen. In one configuration, a digital pen captures pen stroke data and processes that data to determine metadata that the pen then writes to metadata storage located on the document.
Claims11
A method for associating metadata with a document having a metadata dynamic read-write storage device attached to the document comprising:
- initializing a pointing instrument for capturing pen stroke data using the document;
- processing pen stroke data in a normal data capture mode using the document;
- recognizing a metadata mode;
- then capturing pen stroke metadata data using the pointing instrument using the document;
- sending the metadata data to a processor;
- then receiving processed metadata created using the metadata from the processor;
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- then storing the processed metadata in the dynamic read-write metadata storage device that is completely attached to a portion of a surface of the document, wherein the processed metadata includes text data, further comprising:
- receiving a process metadata command, wherein the pointing instrument is a digital pen and wherein a user uses the digital pen and the document to generate the process metadata command;
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- assigning a unique serial number to the metadata, wherein:
- the metadata storage device comprises an rf-id tag and wherein a transceiver within the digital pen is utilized to program the dynamic read-write metadata storage device and wherein the digital pen is brought into proximity of the rf-id tag during the programming.
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