Automatic document transfer system and method thereof

• US 20050270139A1
• Filed: 06/06/2005
• Published: 12/08/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/04/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: Yoo, Jeong-joon, Koo, Ji-hun, Park, Kyung-ho, Kang, Woo-shik, Koo, Si-gyoung
• Application Number:
  US11/144,754
• Publication Number:
  US 20050270139A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/5.610
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00214 details of transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00217 only involving computer data transmission protocols, e.g. SMTP, WAP or HTTP communication protocol aspects and techniques in packet data networks H04L69/00; network-specific arrangements or communication protocols supporting networked applications H04L67/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00342 with a radio frequency tag transmitter or receiver storage of additional information in an RFID tag attached to an image bearing paper sheet H04N1/32138
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0039 Connection via a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3205 of identification information, e.g. name or ID code H04N2201/3209 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/327 which are undetectable to the naked eye, e.g. embedded codes

Abstract

An automatic document transfer system and method are for transferring documents between a plurality of PCs connected to each other via a network, the system comprising: a first PC detecting an access of a user, monitoring whether the user accesses a document, and outputting the document in response to a predetermined command when the document is produced; a second PC detecting an access of the user and receiving the document by requesting the document via a network; and a monitoring server receiving the request from the second PC and outputting the command to the first PC to transfer the document.

Claims

1. An system for transferring documents between a plurality of personal computers (PCs) connected to each other via a network, the system comprising:

a first PC which detects an access of a user, monitors whether the user accesses a document, and outputs the document in response to a command if the document is accessed;

a second PC which detects an access of the user and receives the document by generating a request for the document; and

a monitoring server which receives the request from the second PC and outputs the command to the first PC to transfer the document to the second PC via the network.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first PC comprises:

a reader which senses a first signal including at least a user ID, and detects the user ID from the first signal; and

a controller which monitors whether the user having the user ID accesses the document, and outputs the document in response to the command.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the reader periodically outputs a second signal having a propagating distance which is limited to a predetermined range.

4. The system of claim 3, further comprising a tag which outputs the first signal including at least the user ID in response to the second signal output from the reader.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the tag comprises:

a detector which detects the second signal output from the reader;

a memory which stores the user ID;

a signal transmitter which reads the user ID from the memory in response to the second signal detected by the detector, converts the user ID into the first signal having an identical frequency to that of the second signal, and outputs the first signal to the reader.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the second PC comprises:

a reader which senses a first signal including at least a user ID, and detects the user ID from the first signal; and

a controller which requests the first PC to transfer the document, which the user having the user ID has accessed in the first PC, and receives the document from the first PC.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the reader periodically outputs a first signal having a propagating distance which is limited to a predetermined range.

8. The system of claim 7, further comprising a tag which outputs the first signal including at least the user ID in response to the second signal output from the reader.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the tag comprises:

a detector which detects the second signal output from the reader;

a memory which stores the user ID;

a signal transmitter which reads the user ID from the memory in response to the second signal detected by the detector, converts the user ID into the first signal having an identical frequency to that of the second signal, and outputs the first to the reader.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein each of the first PC and the second PC obtains data of the user and outputs the data of the user to the monitoring server.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein at least one of the first PC and the second PC comprises:

a reader which senses a signal including at least a user ID, and detects the user ID from the signal which is sensed; and

a controller which outputs the user ID to the monitoring server.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the monitoring server compares the data of the user input from the first PC and the data of the user input from the second PC, and commands the first PC to transfer the document to the second PC if the data of the user input from the first PC and the data of the user input from the second PC have identical user IDs.

13. A method of transferring documents between a plurality of personal computers (PCs) connected to each other via a network, the method comprising:

confirming, via a monitoring server, a first user is accessing a first PC;

confirming, via the monitoring server, a second user is accessing a second PC;

if the first user is identical to the second user, determining, via the monitoring server, whether the first user has accessed a document using the first PC;

if the first user has accessed the document using the first PC, requesting a transfer of the document to the second PC; and

transferring the document from the first PC to the second PC.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the confirming of the first user comprises:

receiving a first signal including at least a first user ID from the first user and detecting the first user ID from the first signal;

transferring the first user ID from the first PC to the monitoring server; and

confirming the first user ID via the monitoring server.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the confirming of the second user comprises:

receiving a second signal including at least a second user ID from the second user and detecting the second user ID from the second signal;

transferring the second user ID from the second PC to the monitoring server; and

confirming the second user ID via the monitoring server.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the first signal including at least the first user ID is transmitted by the first user in response to a third signal which has a first propagating distance limited to a first predetermined range and is periodically output from the first PC.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the second signal including at least the second user ID is transmitted by the second user in response to a fourth signal which has a second propagating distance limited to a second predetermined range and is periodically output from the second PC.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the first PC is booted by the first signal transferred by the first user before the confirming of the first user ID or the second PC is booted by the second signal transferred by the second user the confirming of the second user ID.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein the determining of whether the first user has accessed the document using the first PC comprises:

the second PC querying the monitoring server whether the first user has accessed the document in the first PC; and

the monitoring server confirming whether the first user has accessed the document received from the first PC and the first user ID.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising, before the determining of whether the first user has accessed the document in the first PC, the first PC informing the monitoring server that the first user has accessed the document.

21. The method of claim 15, wherein the determining of whether the first user has accessed the document in the first PC comprises:

the second PC querying the monitoring server whether the first user has accessed the document in the first PC;

the monitoring server querying the first PC whether the first user has accessed the document and receiving a response with respect to the querying from the first PC; and

the monitoring server informing the second PC of the response.

22. A computer-readable medium having recorded thereon a computer-readable program for performing the method of transferring documents between a plurality of PCs connected to each other via a network, the method comprising:

confirming, via a monitoring server, a first user accessing a first PC;

confirming, via the monitoring server, a second user accessing a second PC;

if the first user is identical to the second user, determining, via the monitoring server, whether the first user has accessed a document using the first PC;

if the first user has accessed the document using the first PC, requesting a transfer of the document to the second PC; and

transferring the document from the first PC to the second PC.