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System and method for document storage management

  • US 6,772,943 B2
  • Filed: 02/22/2002
  • Issued: 08/10/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/22/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer system for managing the storage of multiple groups of documents, each group of documents being associated with a characteristic identifying parameter and comprising different types of documents, said computer system comprising:

  • a document output device constructed and arranged to generate the different types of documents and to form on each document a machine-readable graphic code when the document is originally generated, the graphic code relating to document-identifying information including the type of document and the characteristic identifying parameter with which the document will be associated;

    a document scanning device constructed and arranged to scan documents generate by said document output device to create a digital data record of each document scanned and to read said machine-readable graphic code;

    memory for storing the digital data records of the scanned documents; and

    a computer processor for processing the digital data record of each scanned document to identify the type of document and the characteristic identifying parameter of each digital data record and to electronically store each digital data record in a portion of said memory corresponding to the associated characteristic identifying parameter.

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