Coversheet manager application

• US 20060279798A1
• Filed: 06/10/2005
• Published: 12/14/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lexmark International Incorporated (Ninestar Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Lexmark International Incorporated (Ninestar Corporation)
• Inventors: Rudolph, Craig Anthony, Steele, John S.
• Granted Patent: US 7,957,018 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/403
• 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 1/00968 by scanning marks on a sheet mark-sheet input means H04N1/00355; sensing record carriers G06K7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0097 Storage of instructions or parameters, e.g. customised instructions or different parameters for different user IDs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00973 from a remote device, e.g. receiving via the internet instructions input to a computer terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2179 Interfaces allowing access to a plurality of users, e.g. connection to electronic image libraries
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2187 with image input from a plurality of different locations or from a non-central location, e.g. from one or more users
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32112 in a separate computer file, document page or paper sheet, e.g. a fax cover sheet H04N1/32122 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0039 Connection via a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3274 Storage or retrieval of prestored additional information

Abstract

A method, and a system using the method, of managing and using a profile to be associated with a document. The method includes generating an identifier based on the profile and printing the identifier for use in scanning documents to be associated with the profile.

Claims

1. A method of managing and using a profile to be associated with a document, the method comprising:

generating an identifier based on the profile; and

printing the identifier for use in scanning documents to be associated with the profile.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the identifier further comprises forming at least one of a barcode, a scanner readable character, a computer readable character, and information of the profile.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

scanning the identifier and the document; and

electronically associating the document with the identifier.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising directing the scanned document based on preprogrammed instructions and the associated identifier.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein directing the scanned document based on the preprogrammed instructions and the associated identifier further comprises at least one of emailing the scanned document, electronically transmitting the scanned document, copying the scanned document, printing the scanned document, sharing the scanned document, and storing the scanned document.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising at least one of accessing a database for the profile and editing the profile after printing the identifier.

7. A method of managing a document, the method comprising:

accessing at least one of an existing profile and a new profile;

generating an identifier based on the accessed profile; and

printing the identifier for use in scanning documents to be associated with the profile.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein generating the identifier further comprises imaging on a sheet at least one of a barcode, a scanner readable object, a computer readable object, and information of the profile.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein accessing at least one of the existing profile and the new profile further comprises at least one of creating a new profile, copying the existing profile, editing the existing profile, and deleting the existing profile.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein accessing at least one of the existing profile and the new profile further comprises accessing a database for the previously generated profile and the new profile.

11. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

scanning the identifier and the document; and

electronically associating the document with the identifier.

12. The method of claim 7 further comprising directing the scanned document based on preprogrammed instructions and the associated identifier.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein directing the scanned document based on the preprogrammed instructions and the associated identifier further comprises at least one of emailing the scanned document, electronically transmitting the scanned document, copying the scanned document, printing the scanned document, sharing the scanned document, and storing the scanned document.

14. The method of claim 7, further comprising the act of editing the profile after printing the identifier.

15. A system for managing and using a profile to be associated with a document, the system comprising:

an application configured to generate an identifier based on the profile; and

a device configured to print the identifier for use in scanning documents to be associated with the profile.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the identifier comprises at least one of a barcode, a scanner readable character, a computer readable character, and information of the profile.

17. The system of claim 15, further comprising:

a scanning device configured to scan the identifier and the document; and

a second application electronically associating the document with the identifier.

18. The system of claim 15, further comprising a database managing application configured to direct the scanned document based on a preprogrammed routing instruction and the associated identifier.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the preprogrammed routing instruction further comprises at least one of an instruction to email the scanned document, an instruction to electronically transmit the scanned document, an instruction to copy the scanned document, an instruction to print the scanned document, an instruction to share the scanned document, and an instruction to store the scanned document.

20. The system of claim 16, further comprising a database, and a touch-screen application configured to access the database for the profile and to edit the profile after printing the identifier.