ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT DELIVERY

• US 20100245929A1
• Filed: 03/11/2010
• Published: 09/30/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Gopalasamy, Srinivasan
• Granted Patent: US 9,035,958 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/402
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/066 Telephone sets adapted for data transmision
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00206 Transmitting or receiving computer data via an image communication device, e.g. a facsimile transceiver H04N1/00236 takes precedence
• 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 1/00212 Attaching image data to computer messages, e.g. to e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00241 using an image reading device as a local input to a computer input via network, e.g. network scanners H04N1/00225
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0035 User-machine interface; Control console input or output arrangements for computers G06F3/00

Abstract

A system, method, and computer readable medium for converting paper documents (134) to electronic documents (138) and sending the electronic documents (138) to at least one destination (144).

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for converting a paper document to an electronic document and sending the electronic document to at least one destination, said method comprising the steps of:

sending commands, from a server computer to a sending computer with a connected scanner, that control the sending computer to scan the paper document, generate the electronic document, and send the electronic document to the server computer;

receiving the electronic document at the server computer; and

sending the electronic document to a destination.

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