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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2000
Cheryl L. Picoult, Monroe, CT (US);
John H. Winkelman, Southbury, CT (US);
Kevin L. Strobel, Fairfield, CT (US);
James R. Norris, Jr., Danbury, CT (US);
John W. Rojas, Norwalk, CT (US);
Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a mobile device equipped with a wireless communication capability for generating electronic documents. The mobile device uses the wireless communication capability to communicate with a separate wireless communication tag. The wireless communication tag includes such information as a print device destination address, and the capabilities of the print device matching the destination address. The mobile device receives the destination device information and sends it and a document to a remote data processing center. The document and information may be sent via a network connection or a mobile communication device to a data-processing center. Once the data center receives the information and document the data processing center, the data center determines if any translation or transcoding of the original message is required in order for the destination device to receive the message in the a format which is compatible to the desired destination device. Once transcoding or translation is effected, the message is routed to the identified destination device, which then print the message.