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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2004
Applicants:
Paul Viola, Kirkland, WA (US);
Hiu Chung Law, East Lansing, MI (US);
James Rinker, Kirkland, WA (US);
Inventors:
Paul Viola, Kirkland, WA (US);
Hiu Chung Law, East Lansing, MI (US);
James Rinker, Kirkland, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method of automatically processing an electronic document for routing over a computer network. The method includes recognizing text in the document to identify a candidate address, accessing a collection of potential destinations and comparing the candidate address to the collection of potential destinations to determine a destination for the document.