Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Toshiba Corporation

George Koppich

Michael Lee Yeung

Don Francis Purpura

Paul Nicholas Gacek

Manoj Verma

Sanjay Wangoo

Tapani Juha Otala

Douglas Richard Barr

Vikas Dogra

Ashutosh Gijare

Louis M Ormond

Carl Byington

Costin Valeriu Cozianu

Lenin Babu

Neil Y Iwamoto

Harpreet Singh

Michael Yeng

The subject application is directed to managing electronic documents in associated data storage areas. User identification is received and indicia of data storage areas is displayed. Storage selection is received from the user to store incoming electronic documents. A storage area is then designated in accordance with the received selection and identification data. A shadow data storage area associated with the designated area is created and an access code associated with the designated area is determined. An input of incoming document systems is associated with the shadow area based upon the selection data. Documents are received, in their native formats, from the systems into the shadow storage area. The access code is then associated with each incoming document in the shadow data storage area. A log of history for each document is generated. The documents and logs are routed into the designated area from the shadow area.

Document management system for transferring a plurality of documents

The subject application is directed to a system and method for document processing device status logging. Status data is first received corresponding to operations of an associated document processing device. The received status data is then stored in a suitable storage location. A determination is then made whether a predefined interval occurred. When the interval has occurred, the stored data is deleted or overwritten. When a secondary memory device is received and recognized by the document processing device, the received status data is routed to the secondary memory device, whereupon the status data remains in the storage location until such time as the predefined interval has occurred. When the secondary memory device that was received by the document processing device is not detected or recognized, operations return to awaiting the elapse of the predefined interval or the detection of a recognizable secondary memory device.

System and method for on demand logging of document processing device status data

A system and method for managing documents within a shared peripheral includes a network-based document management system. A document management module of defines a bookmark or symbolic link to a document stored inside or outside a document management module repository. The symbolic link is treated analogously to other documents managed by the document management module. Upon linking to a document networked, the system enables users to download a document stored in the repository to devices including a local machine or network hard drive.

System and method of managing documents using bookmarks

A method for a user using a thick client to send a print job to a server wherein the user name is preserved and can be determined by the server. When the image file is processed, the processing comprising appending a user identification to the file. A destination driver is invoked, which creates raw print data from the image file for each selected driver. The raw print data is sent to the server, wherein the server parses the raw data and determines the user identification. The raw print data can then be sent to the user's inbox on the server. In a preferred embodiment, the user identification comprises the sequence of ASCII 60 (or 3C hex), the username, and ASCII 62 (or 3E hex), or '&#x3c;username&#x3e;'. Preferably, the user identification is appended to the document name.

Method and system for preserving user identification when generating image data from a remote location

A method and system is provided for automating management of document data in a document management system. The document data management automation system suitably permits document management system users to create and define rules for automated management of document data in the document management system. The rules are suitably created by selecting from a variety of criteria permit users to automate tasks that are performed on document data which is preferably received by the document management system.

Document management system rule-based automation

This invention is related to document management systems, and more particularly, to a document management system to automate transferring a plurality of documents or related data. The present invention is directed to a method and system for capturing electronic documents to a preselected data storage area comprising the steps of and means adapted for selecting a data storage area adapted for storage of electronic documents; and receiving, into the selected data storage area, electronic data representative of a plurality of electronic documents from at least one of a plurality of associated document systems.

This invention is directed to a system and method for the digital payment of document processing services. More particularly, this invention is directed to a system and method which uses a pre-paid or digital payment mechanism to charge for document processing services.

System and method for digital payment of document processing services

Internet-based printing to a home printer in which the print job is pre-rasterized at the cable head end and sent in rasterized format to the set top box. Because the print job is pre-rasterized at the cable head end, and not at the set top box, resources are not wasted at the set top box when they are more readily available at the cable head end. In addition, because of the high speed communication network already in existence between the cable head end and the set top box, even large pre-rasterized print jobs can be transmitted to the set top box in reasonable amounts of time, meaning more quickly than a situation in which it was the set top box that performed rasterization.

Home printing from internet sources

This invention is directed to a system and method for generating an image of a plurality of documents. More particularly, this invention is directed to a system and method for scanning a plurality of documents wherein the scanned pages are separated into distinct documents based on a pre-set page length.

Scan job size

This subject application is directed to a system and method for sending electronic files to multiple destinations. When a document is first selected for output, a first level, or generic driver, is selected. This driver enables output of the selected document to all selected output destinations, such as printing, web posting, and e-mailing. While a common driver interface is functional, the system further teaches a mechanism wherein a user can select a destination specific driver for some or all of the destinations. This selection allows for more refined processing options than those afforded by the generic driver, which must function in a set of parameters common to all destinations. In accordance with another aspect of the invention, once a driver for a specific destination is selected, the associated driver is loaded and selected criteria for the specialized driver is stored for future use for documents being output to that destination.

System and method for sending files to multiple destinations

The present invention provides a keypad having a plurality of keys, each having a predetermined function for a respective plurality of selective operations. An indicating arrangement is provided for identifying a selected one of the plurality of keys. As a special feature of the present invention, the indicating arrangement can include one or more virtual keys, selectively programmable to emulate the predetermined function of one or more of the plurality of keys.

Keypad indicating arrangement including virtual key

A method and system for accessing a network-based document server application from a client. An access point is defined within a local file system of the client. A local file navigation interface allows a user of the client to interface to the access point such that the network-based document management system is accessed via the local file system of the client.

System and method for accessing a document management repository

This invention is related to document management systems, and more particularly, to a document management system for automating selected operations to be performed on at least one document in a data storage area. The invention is directed to a method and system for automatically performing preselected operations on electronic documents. The method and system comprising the steps of and means adapted for receiving at least one electronic document into a data storage area accessible by a plurality of users; associating at least one preselected operation with the data storage area, such that such preselected operation is performed automatically by any document received into the data storage area; and performing the preselected operation on each electronic document received into the data storage area.

Document management system for automating operations performed on documents in data storage areas

Secure printing of print data from a client application residing on a data network to a set top box which has a printer, the set top box residing on a digital cable network which has a cable head end for interfacing the digital cable network to the data network, wherein print data is generated in the client application after which it is determined whether a secure communication path exists between the client application and the set top box. If the secure communication path exists, the print data is transmitted from the client application to the set top box. The print data is then sent from the set top box to the printer for printing.

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Palos Verdes Estates, CA, United States of America

George Koppich