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

• US 9,560,474 B2
• Filed: 12/22/2014
• Issued: 01/31/2017
• 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): LANIER, BENJAMIN E
• Application Number:
  US14/579,867
• Publication Number:
  US 20150172850A1
• Time in Patent Office: 771 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 cell phone comprising:

a wireless transceiver to receive, via wireless communication, a document from a first device and to transfer the document to a second device;

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

a processor coupled to the transceiver and the memory, the processor to control the transceiver to cause the transceiver to receive the document from the first device and to cause the transceiver to receive a query from the second device, and in response to an indication that the document is included in one or more documents to be downloaded, to cause the transceiver to transfer the document to the second device, wherein the document received by the wireless transceiver is encrypted with a first key, and further wherein the processor is to decrypt the document using a second key.

2. The cell phone defined in claim 1 wherein the document is received by the wireless transceiver without user intervention.

3. The cell phone defined in claim 1 wherein the query is received by the wireless transceiver without user intervention.

4. The cell phone defined in claim 1 wherein the document is transmitted by the wireless transceiver without user intervention.

5. The cell phone defined in claim 1 wherein, without user intervention, the document is received by the wireless transceiver, the query is received by the wireless transceiver, and the document is transmitted by the wireless transceiver.

6. The cell phone defined in claim 1 wherein the processor is to cause the transceiver to receive, via wireless communication, the query from the second device, the query requesting an indication as to whether the memory contains the one or more documents to be downloaded.

7. The cell phone defined in claim 1 wherein the document is received when the transceiver is proximate to the first device, and further wherein the document is transferred when the transceiver is proximate to the second device.

8. The cell phone defined in claim 1 wherein the processor is operable specifying an operation to be performed on the document by the second device and causes the wireless transceiver to transmit an indication of the operation to the second device.

9. The cell phone defined in claim 8 wherein operation comprises printing, e-mailing, faxing, encrypting, and storing.

10. The cell phone defined in claim 1 wherein an index is generated from the document, and further wherein the wireless transceiver transmits the document and the index to the second device.

11. The cell phone defined in claim 1 further comprising a proximity detector to determine when the wireless transceiver is near the second device.

12. A cell phone comprising:

a wireless transceiver to receive, via wireless communication, a document from a first device and to transfer the document to a second device;

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

a processor coupled to the transceiver and the memory, the processor to control the transceiver to cause the transceiver to receive the document from the first device and to cause the transceiver to receive a query from the second device, and in response to an indication that the document is included in one or more documents to be downloaded, to cause the transceiver to transfer the document to the second device, wherein the processor sends a key to the first device and the document is received encrypted with the key.

13. A method comprising:

receiving, by a cell phone, a document from a first device;

storing, by the cell phone, the document in memory; and

transferring, by the cell phone, the document to a second device, such that communication of the document occurs between the first and second devices, wherein transferring the document to the second device occurs when the cell phone is in proximity to the second device and in response to a query from the second device with respect to whether the document is to be downloaded to the second device, wherein the document is encrypted, and further comprising;

storing an index generated from the document for later retrieval,

receiving a first key from the first device, wherein the first key was utilized to encrypt the document, and

transferring, via wireless communication, the index, the first key and the document to a second device when the cell phone is proximate to the second device.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

the cell phone receiving a query from the second device requesting an indication as to whether the cell phone contains one or more documents to be downloaded; and

wherein transferring the document to the second device is performed in response to the indication that the document is included in the one or more documents to be downloaded.

15. The method defined in claim 13 further comprising the cell phone determining whether the second device is in proximity prior to transferring the index, the first key and the document to the second device.

16. The method defined in claim 13 further comprising:

sending, by the cell phone, the first key to the first device prior to receiving the document;

decrypting, by the cell phone, the document using a second key

encrypting the document with a second key; and

sending, by the cell phone, a second encrypted version of the document.

17. The method defined in claim 16 wherein the first key comprises a public key and the second key comprises a private key.

18. The method defined in claim 13 wherein, without user intervention, the document is received by the wireless transceiver, the query is received by the wireless transceiver, and the document is transmitted by the wireless transceiver.