Method and System For Universal File Types in a Document Review System

• US 20080218808A1
• Filed: 02/27/2008
• Published: 09/11/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Altep, Inc. (Consilio LLC)
• Original Assignee: Altep, Inc. (Consilio LLC)
• Inventors: Van Den Berge, Willem R.
• Application Number:
  US12/038,802
• Publication Number:
  US 20080218808A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/403
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00209 Transmitting or receiving image data, e.g. facsimile data, via a computer, e.g. using e-mail, a computer network, the internet, I-fax
• 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 2201/0065 Converting image data to a format usable by the connected apparatus or vice versa
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0089 Image display device

Abstract

A system, method and machine-readable medium providing for review of documents. The method includes receiving a request for a document over a network from a document presentation device, the document having a file type; retrieving the document from a memory; determining the file type; in response to determining the file type is in one of a first set of formats, sending the document to the document presentation device; and in response to determining the file type is in one of a second set of formats, launching an application on a remote application server and sending information to the document presentation device to display the output of the application on the document presentation device, the application corresponding to the file type.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a document presentation device configured to interface with a remote application server;

a document server configured to receive a request for a document from the document presentation device over a network, the server being configured to retrieve the requested document from a memory, determine the file type of the requested document, and if the file type is one of a first set of formats, send the file to the computer to be displayed and if the file type is one of a second set of formats, launch an application corresponding to the file type and send information over the network to the document presentation device to display the document on the document presentation device.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the first set of formats comprises a tagged image format.

3. The system of claim 2 wherein the computer comprises a browser, the browser being configured to display documents in the tagged image format.

4. The system of claim 2 wherein the document is an annotated document.

5. The system of claim 2 wherein the document is a redacted document.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the document server comprises a remote application server configured to launch an application corresponding to the file type and send information over the network to the document presentation device to display the document on the document presentation device.

12. The method of claim 1 further comprising using the information to generate the display on the document presentation device.

7. A method comprising:

receiving a request for a document over a network from a document presentation device, the document having a file type;

retrieving the document from a memory;

determining the file type; and

in response to determining the file type is in one of a first set of formats, sending the document to the document presentation device; and

in response to determining the file type is in one of a second set of formats, launching an application on a remote application server and sending information to the document presentation device to display the output of the application on the document presentation device, the application corresponding to the file type.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the first set of formats comprises a tagged image format.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the tagged image format file is displayed using a browser.

10. The method of claim 8 wherein the document is an annotated document.

11. The method of claim 8 wherein the document is a redacted document.

13. A machine-readable medium that provides instructions for a processor, which when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform a method comprising:

receiving a request for a document over a network from a document presentation device, the document having a file type;

retrieving the document from a memory;

determining the file type; and

in response to determining the file type is in one of a first set of formats, retrieving and sending the document to the document presentation device; and

in response to determining the file type is in one of a second set of formats, launching an application on a remote application server, and sending information to the document presentation device to display the output of the application on the document presentation device, the application corresponding to the file type.

14. The machine-readable medium of claim 13 wherein the first set of formats comprises a tagged image format.

15. The machine-readable medium of claim 14 wherein the document is displayed using a browser.

16. The machine-readable medium of claim 14 wherein the document is an annotated document.

17. The machine-readable medium of claim 14 wherein the document is a redacted document.

18. The machine-readable medium of claim 13 further comprising using the information to generate the display on the document presentation device.