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AssigneeRoelesis Wireless LLC
InventorsDavid M. Snyder, Bruce D. Melick, Leslie D. Baych, Paul R. Staman, Nicholas J. Peters, Gregory P. Probst
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A method for data interchange includes summing up data associated with an electronic document to provide summed up data, representing the summed up data as one or more bar codes, and returning the one or more bar codes for display and data capture via a bar code scan from either a video display or a printed version of the one or more bar codes. The electronic document may be of any number of formats. The summing up may include taking data from multiple information fields to create the summed up data. The data may include data tags or a step of adding data tags to the data to assist in data interchange may be performed.
A method comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions configured to enable a computer to perform operations, the instructions comprising:
A system, having a memory and a processor, for identifying documents associated with a location, the system comprising:
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Term ended 19 Jan 2021 (estimated)
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to data interchange technology, and more particularly, though not exclusively, to a method and apparatus for inputting tagged or un-tagged data into electronic documents (e-forms), summing up data in the electronic document, or in a linked and separate document or file as one or more 1D and/or 2D bar codes ready for use in data interchange.
2. Problems in the Art
FIG. 1 is a flowchart representation of the preferred method of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a pictorial representation of a document containing tagged bar codes.
FIG. 3 is a pictorial representation of a style sheet used by the “sending company” to identify the fields and tags for the bar codes shown in FIG. 2.
One aspect of the present invention includes a 3-step method and apparatus for 1) inputting tagged or un-tagged data into electronic documents (e-forms), 2) summing up data in the electronic document as one or more 1D and/or 2D bar codes ready for interchange using data tags, and 3) outputting tagged data.
In the first step of the present invention, tagged or un-tagged input data can come from a variety of data sources, including, but not limited to, 1D and/or 2D bar codes displayed on driver's licenses, national identification cards, social security cards, military identification cards, company identification cards, business cards, financial transaction cards including, but not limited to, credit cards, check cards, and ATM cards, health plan identification cards, purchase receipts, warranties, bills of lading, purchase orders, invoices, sales orders, insurance cards, statements of account, work orders, drawings, photographs, blueprints, packing lists, UCC forms, contracts, redemption coupons, newspapers, magazines, products, product packaging, vehicles, shipping containers, pallets, etc. In addition, tagged or un-tagged sources for data input into an electronic document can come from various sources, such as, but not limited to, 3D bumpy bar codes, RFID tags, magnetic stripes, optically recognizable characters (OCR), characters recognizable via magnetic ink technology (MICR), intelligently recognized characters (ICR), voice, voice recognition technology, computer-telephone interfaces, keyboards, touch screens, PC, laptop, PDA, mouse, pager, text messaging device, etc.
Electronic document file types for viewing, sharing, and exchanging data on the Internet have previously been created using a very limited number of file formats, specifically, HTML and XML in order to make them universally available for viewing in a browser, and as PDFs using the Adobe Reader plug-in. In a quantum leap forward the present invention makes virtually any electronic document file format available for viewing and as a mechanism to sum-up data for exchange as one or more tagged or un-tagged bar codes. As an example, additional electronic document file types that would be made available in the present invention using a viewer, such as, but not limited to the Kamel Fastlook browser plug-in include, but are not limited to the following: