Device for transfering data between an unconscious capture device and another device

• US 7,181,013 B2
• Filed: 06/27/2006
• Issued: 02/20/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Hull, Jonathan J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Peeso; Thomas R.
• Application Number:
  US11/477,092
• Publication Number:
  US 20060245592A1
• Time in Patent Office: 238 Days
• Field of Search: 380/270, 380/271
• US Class Current: 380/270
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/0225 User interface arrangements, e.g. keyboard, display; Interfaces to other computer systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6209 to a single file or object, e.g. in a secure envelope, encrypted and accessed using a key, or with access control rules appended to the object itself
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/79 in semiconductor storage media, e.g. directly-addressable memories
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/85 interconnection devices, e.g. bus-connected or in-line devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/24 Key scheduling, i.e. generating round keys or sub-keys for block encryption
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/14 using a plurality of keys or algorithms
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00127 Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture signals or of information associated with a still picture
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/4486 using digital data encryption
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0055 By radio
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0087 Image storage device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0091 Digital copier; digital 'photocopier' H04N2201/0093 and H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0096 Portable devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/02 Protecting privacy or anonymity, e.g. protecting personally identifiable information [PII]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/033 of the user plane, e.g. user's traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for accessing and distributing data that includes a portable first device and a second device wherein both devices have unconscious capture capability. The first device has a first memory wherein at least one document is stored in the first memory of the first device. The first device has a transceiver, an identifier, and a public key to access a second device.

Claims

1. A portable apparatus comprising:

a wireless transceiver to receive, via wireless communication, a document subjected to unconscious capture by a first device and to transmit the document to a second device, such that communication of the document occurs between the first and second devices;

a memory coupled to the transceiver to store the document; and

a processor coupled to the transceiver and the memory, the processor controlling the transceiver to cause the transceiver to receive the document unconsciously from the first device and to transfer the document as part of being downloaded to the second device.

2. The portable apparatus defined in claim 1 wherein the processor sends a key to the first device and the document is received encrypted with the key.

3. The portable apparatus defined in claim 1 wherein unconscious capture of the document into the memory occurs without user intervention.

4. The portable apparatus defined in claim 1 wherein the first device comprises a multifunction machine.

5. The portable apparatus defined in claim 1 wherein the first device comprises a copier.

6. The portable apparatus defined in claim 1 wherein the first device comprises a facsimile machine.

7. The portable apparatus defined in claim 1 wherein the first device comprises a scanner.

8. The portable apparatus defined in claim 1 wherein the first device comprises a printer.

9. The portable apparatus defined in claim 1 when the second device comprises a computer system.

10. The portable apparatus defined in claim 1 wherein the memory comprises at least one flash memory.

11. The portable apparatus defined in claim 1 wherein the memory comprises at least one disk memory.

12. The portable apparatus defined in claim 1 wherein the transceiver comprises a radio frequency (RF) transceiver.

13. The portable apparatus defined in claim 1 wherein the transceiver comprises a modem.

14. The portable apparatus defined in claim 1 wherein the transceiver comprises an infrared (IR) transceiver.

15. The portable apparatus defined in claim 1 further comprising a proximity detector to determine when the transceiver is near the second device.

16. The portable apparatus defined in claim 1 further comprising a directional antenna coupled to the transceiver.

17. A cell phone comprising the portable apparatus defined in claim 1.