US 8,555,174 B2Granted

System and method for submitting and receiving images

AssigneeMaking Everlasting Memories, LLC

InventorsGordon Scott Mindrum, Steven Craig Sefton, Jeffrey Jon Johnson

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Abstract

An image submission system comprises a server, a client, and a scanner. A scanner interface software module is loaded on the client for operating the scanner. An image submission software module loaded on the server remotely receives instructions through an Internet browser at the client, and presents a single click interface feature operable to receive a single click input by the user at the client, via the Internet browser. A control software module loaded on the client is in communication with the image submission software module, and is operative to direct the scanner interface software module to scan an image on the scanner and upload the scanned image to the remote server in response to a single click input by the user via the single click interface feature. A user may thus have an image both scanned an uploaded to a server, in response the same single click.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A method of remotely activating a scanner and uploading a scanned image from a client to a server, wherein the client includes a scanner, wherein the client is in communication with the Internet, wherein a user remains with the client and the scanner to provide instructions to the client, wherein the server is configured to receive images via the Internet, wherein the server is remote from the client and the user, the method comprising:

(a) providing a data entry tool at the server, wherein the data entry tool is configured to be presented to the user at the client in the form of a user interface accessible via a web browser;
(b) presenting the user interface at the client via the web browser, wherein the user interface comprises a single click feature;
(c) receiving a single click input from the user at the client via the single click feature of the user interface;
(d) remotely executing the data entry tool at the server in response to receipt of the single click input from the user at the client, wherein the act of remotely executing the data entry tool comprises:
(i) remotely causing the scanner at the client to scan a hard copy image, and
(ii) remotely causing the client to upload the scanned image to the server;
(e) receiving the scanned image at the server in response to receipt of the single click input from the user;
and
(f) receiving a selection input from the user, wherein the selection input indicates whether the scanned image is to be published on a web page.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/178,943Filed 24 Jul 2008 · division
Priority: 31 Jan 1997
Published: US 2008/0316542 A125 Dec 2008
Granted: 8 Oct 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification2 codes

G06Q 10/10
Administration; Management: office automation; Time management
G06Q
Information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial

Family

Application60/037,010Us provisional application · filed 31 Jan 1997
Application09/016,825Parent of this continuation · filed 30 Jan 1998
Application10/051,555Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 17 Jan 2002
US 6,340,978 B1Parent of this continuation · filed 22 Jan 2002
Application10/446,988Parent of this division · filed 28 May 2003
US 2008/0316542 A1Pre-grant publication · published 25 Dec 2008
US 7,657,835 B2Parent of this division
Application10/446,988Parent of this continuation-in-part
Application10/051,555Parent of this continuation
US 2003/0197721 A1Published application
US 8,555,174 B2This patent

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