Apparatus and method for dynamically creating fax cover sheets containing dynamic and static content zones
First Claim
1. An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
a memory coupled to the at least one processor;
at least one digital image of a paper-based document, the digital image comprising at least one image of a dynamically generated fax cover sheet, the at least one digital image residing in the memory; and
a digital filing application residing in the memory and being executed by the at least one processor, the digital filing application extracting a globally unique identifier from the image of the dynamically generated fax cover sheet and using the globally unique identifier to link the digital image to a database record which was created prior to the creation of the digital image.
3 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
The present invention allows users to index and label documents prior to scanning/imaging and then use dynamically generated fax cover sheets and a fax machine to create digital images of the paper-based documents. Each dynamically-generated fax cover sheet will contain a globally unique document identifier and, if desired, other relevant document-specific or user-specific information. The document-specific information and the user-specific information is contained in dynamic content zones on the fax cover sheet. Each dynamically-generated fax cover sheet generated by the digital filing system will be globally unique, with respect to at least one of the dynamic content zones and no two dynamically-generated fax cover sheets will ever be identical. In addition, each dynamically-generated fax cover sheet may also contain static content zones which contain information that will be duplicated over a certain range of dynamically-generated fax cover sheets.
175 Citations
21 Claims
-
1. An apparatus comprising:
-
at least one processor; a memory coupled to the at least one processor; at least one digital image of a paper-based document, the digital image comprising at least one image of a dynamically generated fax cover sheet, the at least one digital image residing in the memory; and a digital filing application residing in the memory and being executed by the at least one processor, the digital filing application extracting a globally unique identifier from the image of the dynamically generated fax cover sheet and using the globally unique identifier to link the digital image to a database record which was created prior to the creation of the digital image. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
-
-
17. A method comprising the steps of:
-
printing a dynamically-generated fax cover sheet, the fax cover sheet containing at least one dynamic content zone, wherein at least one of the at least one dynamic content zones contains a globally unique identifier; indexing a paper-based document using a digital filing application, thereby creating a record in a database describing the paper-based document; processing the dynamically-generated fax cover sheet and the paper-based document to create a digital image of the paper-based document and the dynamically-generated fax cover sheet, wherein the dynamically-generated fax cover sheet acts as a fax cover sheet for the paper-based document; extracting the globally unique identifier from the digital image; storing the digital image in a file, using the globally unique identifier to name the digital image and to link the digital image to the record in the database. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21)
-
Specification