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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 14, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Muneeb Arshad, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Megan Capobianco, Highland, NY (US);

Gregory Ecock, White Plains, NY (US);

Vijai Kalathur, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);

Christopher R. Potter, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Daniela Regier, New Paltz, NY (US);

William H. Scott, Fishkill, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 (2006.01); G06K 9/22 (2006.01); G06K 9/18 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06K 9/20 (2006.01); G06F 17/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/228 (2013.01); G06F 17/241 (2013.01); G06K 9/18 (2013.01); G06K 9/2081 (2013.01); G06K 9/6201 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: obtaining image data representing page content of a physical book; running a character recognition process to process the image data for providing a text string of machine encoded text corresponding to text of the physical book; identifying within a data repository that stores one or more electronic book a string of text of an electronic book that matches the text string of machine encoded text; and based on the identifying, digitally bookmarking the electronic book.


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