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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2002
Filed:
May. 10, 2000
Israel Berger, Haifa, IL;
Dan Chevion, Haifa, IL;
Andrei Heilper, Haifa, IL;
Yaakov Navon, Ein Vered, IL;
Asaf Tzadok, Kiryat Yam, IL;
Martin Tross, Haifa, IL;
Eugene Wallach, Haifa, IL;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for automatic sorting includes receiving an item in a sequence of items to be sorted, each such item marked with a respective machine-readable identifying code and with respective characters in a location relative to the code that varies from one item to another in the sequence. A position of the code on the item is determined and, responsive to the position of the code, the location of the characters on the item is found. The characters are processed to determine a destination of the item.