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SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING QUEUES BY MAINTAINING METADATA FILES HAVING ATTRIBUTES CORRESPONDING TO CAPTURE OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT AND USING THE METADATA FILES TO SELECTIVELY LOCK THE ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT

  • US 6,978,297 B1
  • Filed: 09/30/1999
  • Issued: 12/20/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/12/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An apparatus comprising:

  • a network interface to receive an electronic document from a first device, the electronic document captured by the first device coupled to the network, wherein the document is captured by being saved in the absence of an explicit command by a user to the first device;

    a storage medium coupled with the network interface having one or more queues to store the captured documents; and

    a processor coupled with the storage medium to manage the one or more queues by maintaining one or more metadata files having attributes corresponding to capture of the electronic document, wherein the processor executes one or more daemons corresponding to the one or more queues using the metadata files to selectively lock the electronic document.

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