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US 7,606,741 B2Granted
Information gathering system and method
AssigneeExbibuo B.V.
InventorsMartin T. King, James Q. Stafford-Fraser, Clifford A. Kushler, Dale L. Grover
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Abstract
A system, apparatus and method for filling forms, including using a graphical capture device, are described herein.
Claims12
A computer-implemented method of populating data related to a printed form, the method comprising:
- obtaining, by a server from a portable capture device operated by a user, via a network, a form identifier via information optically captured from a printed form comprising a plurality of printed blank fields for accepting manually entered data;
- determining, by said server, an electronic form structure comprising a plurality of electronic data fields, corresponding at least in part to said plurality of printed fields, in accordance with said captured form identifier;
- automatically obtaining, by said server, a plurality of data associated with said user from a coupled electronic data source, said plurality of data associated with said user corresponding to at least some of said plurality of electronic data fields;
- automatically generating, by said server, an electronic representation of said plurality of data associated with said user in accordance with said electronic form structure;
- and
- communicating, by said server, said electronic representation of said plurality of data associated with said user to a receiver.
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A computer readable medium containing computer executable instructions that when executed by a processor, perform a method comprising:
- obtaining, by a server from a portable capture device operated by a user, via a network, a form identifier via information optically captured from a printed form comprising a plurality of printed blank fields for accepting manually entered data;
- determining, by said server, an electronic form structure comprising a plurality of electronic data fields corresponding at least in part to said plurality of printed fields in accordance with said captured form identifier;
- automatically obtaining, by said server, a plurality of data associated with said user from a coupled electronic data source, said plurality of data associated with said user corresponding to at least some of said plurality of electronic data fields;
- automatically generating, by said server, an electronic representation of said plurality of data associated with said user in accordance with said electronic form structure;
- and
- communicating, by said server, said electronic representation of said plurality of data associated with said user to a receiver.
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A computing apparatus having a processor and a memory containing computer executable instructions that when executed by the processor, perform a method comprising:
- obtaining, from a portable capture device operated by a user, a form identifier via information optically captured from a printed form comprising a plurality of printed blank fields for accepting manually entered data;
- determining an electronic form structure comprising a plurality of electronic data fields corresponding at least in part to said plurality of printed fields in accordance with said captured form identifier;
- automatically obtaining a plurality of data associated with said user from a coupled electronic data source, said plurality of data associated with said user corresponding to at least some of said plurality of electronic data fields;
- automatically generating an electronic representation of said plurality of data associated with said in accordance with said electronic form structure;
- and
- communicating said electronic representation of said plurality of data associated with said user to a receiver.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.