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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:
Oct. 22, 2019

Filed:

Oct. 19, 2012
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Susan M. Cox, Rochester, MN (US);

Janani Janakiraman, Austin, TX (US);

Fang Lu, Billerica, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); G06Q 30/04 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/107 (2013.01); G06Q 30/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system includes a distribution center for scanning mail intended for and received from clients in a community. The mail scanned for generating sender, recipient, type, and arrival data. Category data is generated and includes a payables category, a donation category, and a printed matter category. Client preferences data is also generated. The data is mined to find commonalities of mail sent to and received from clients. An action is invoked based on the mined data and it is determined that the action is a payables, donation, or printed matter action. If the action is either a payables or donation action then, a client and a third party are notified prior to execution of the action. If the action is a printed matter action then, then a printed matter shared by more than one client is presented for sharing.


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