Regular Expressions for Electronic Submission of Documents
First Claim
1. A method of delivering a document to a recipient, the method including:
- receiving, at one or more servers, an electronic document transmitted from a terminal, the electronic document including at least a graphic image file, the graphic image file obtained from an application document and a regular expression extracted from a pre-defined area of the graphic image file; and
, sending the graphic image file, from the one or more servers, to the recipient, with at least one sending option specified by the regular expression.
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Accused Products
Abstract
An automated hybrid mail system/method (10) which sends a graphic image file (47a) from a sender'"'"'s terminal (14) to a recipient (12). The system/method includes receiving, at server (21), an electronic document (47) transmitted from terminal (14), the electronic document (47) includes a graphic image file (47a), the graphic image (47a) obtained from an application document (13) and a regular expression (42) extracted from the graphic image file (47a). The graphic image file (47a) is sent from the server (21) to the recipient (12) using a delivery options (51, 52, 53) specified in the regular expression (42). The regular expression may not be printed as part of the graphic image file and the regular expression can be extracted by software (15) resident on the terminal (14). The regular expression may be an alpha-numeric string.
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17 Claims
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1. A method of delivering a document to a recipient, the method including:
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receiving, at one or more servers, an electronic document transmitted from a terminal, the electronic document including at least a graphic image file, the graphic image file obtained from an application document and a regular expression extracted from a pre-defined area of the graphic image file; and
,sending the graphic image file, from the one or more servers, to the recipient, with at least one sending option specified by the regular expression. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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- 14. A system for delivering a document to a recipient, the system including one or more servers configured to receive an electronic document transmitted from a terminal, the electronic document including at least a graphic image file, the graphic image file obtained from an application document and a regular expression extracted from a pre-defined area of the graphic image file, the one or more servers also configured to send the graphic image file to the recipient, with at least one sending option specified by the regular expression.
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17. A computer program product for delivering a document to a recipient, the computer product configured to:
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process, at one or more servers, an electronic document transmitted from a terminal, the electronic document including at least a graphic image file, the graphic image file obtained from an application document and a regular expression extracted from a pre-defined area of the graphic image file; and
,transmit the graphic image file, from the one or more servers, to the recipient, with at least one sending option specified by the regular expression.
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Specification