Paper-based upload and tracking system
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsGregory J. Wolff, Max McFarland, John W. Barrus, Kurt W. Piersol
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for performing paper-based upload and tracking of documents is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises scanning a version of a document to obtain an image, the document having machine readable information, decoding the machine readable information from the image to obtain a destination specification, and uploading information corresponding to the image to a destination host specified by the destination specification.
Claims83
A method comprising:
- scanning a version of a document to obtain an image, the document having machine readable information;
- decoding the machine readable information from the image to obtain a destination specification;
- and
- uploading information corresponding to the image directly to a selected storage location of a destination host specified by the destination specification upon determination that the destination host is not on a list of destination hosts to which no images are permitted to be uploaded.
An apparatus comprising:
- a scanner to scan a document to produce an image;
- a processing unit to identify a destination host from machine-readable information on the image;
- and
- a communication interface to upload information corresponding to the image directly to a selected storage location of the destination host upon determination that the destination host is not on a list of destination hosts to which no images are permitted to be uploaded.
An article of manufacture having one or more computer readable storage media storing instructions thereon which, when executed by a system, cause the system to perform a method comprising:
- scanning a version of a document to obtain an image, the document having machine readable information;
- decoding the machine readable information from the image to obtain a destination specification;
- uploading information corresponding to the image directly to a selected storage location of a destination host specified by the destination specification upon determination that the destination host is not on a list of destination hosts to which no images are permitted to be uploaded.
A method comprising:
- receiving a tracking number associated with an image of a document, the tracking number obtained from a destination decoded from the image and to which the image had been uploaded directly upon determination that the destination is not on a list of destinations to which no images are permitted to be uploaded;
- generating a request using the tracking number;
- sending the request to a server;
- and
- receiving the image or information related to the image in response to the request.
A method comprising:
- receiving annotations and a tracking number, the tracking number obtained from a destination decoded from an image and to which the image had been uploaded directly upon determination that the destination is not on a list of destinations to which no images are permitted to be uploaded;
- locating stored annotations in response to the tracking number;
- updating the stored annotations;
- and
- sending the updated annotations to a requester.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.