Method and system for creating a document having metadata

• US 20040061690A1
• Filed: 09/30/2002
• Published: 04/01/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pitney Bowes Incorporated (Böwe Systec AG)
• Original Assignee: Pitney Bowes Incorporated (Böwe Systec AG)
• Inventors: Coffy, Jean-Hiram, Braun, John F., Rojas, John W., Norris, James R., Parkos, Arthur, Leung, Alan, Leung, Wendy Chui Fen
• Granted Patent: US 7,397,468 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/179
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0321 by optically sensing the absolute position with respect to a regularly patterned surface forming a passive digitiser, e.g. pen optically detecting position indicative tags printed on a paper sheet constructional details of pen-shaped pointing devices G06F3/03545, G06F3/03542, G06F3/037
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03545 Pens or stylus

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.

Claims

1. A method for associating metadata with a document having a metadata storage device comprising:

initializing a pointing instrument;

recognizing a metadata mode;

sending metadata data to a processor;

receiving metadata from the processor; and

storing the metadata in the metadata storage device.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving a process metadata command,

wherein the pointing instrument is a digital pen.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the metadata data is pen stroke data captured from a predefined area of the document.

4. The method of claim 2 wherein the metadata storage device is an rf-id tag.

5. The method of claim 2 wherein the metadata data is pen stroke data captured from all pen strokes made on the document.

6. The method of claim 2 wherein the metadata data is pen stroke data captured from a first subset of all pen strokes made on the document.

7. The method of claim 2 wherein the metadata includes biometric data.

8. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

storing an e-copy of the document strokes to the metadata storage device.