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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2007
Ole-petter Skaaksrud, Lakeland, TN (US);
Cameron Dee Dryden, West Roxbury, MA (US);
Jeffrey Robert Smith, Westwood, MA (US);
Robert Russell Rhodes, Jr., Hingham, MA (US);
Wayne Luke Gordon, Boston, MA (US);
Xiaoxun Zhu, Marlton, NJ (US);
Ole-Petter Skaaksrud, Lakeland, TN (US);
Cameron Dee Dryden, West Roxbury, MA (US);
Jeffrey Robert Smith, Westwood, MA (US);
Robert Russell Rhodes, Jr., Hingham, MA (US);
Wayne Luke Gordon, Boston, MA (US);
Xiaoxun Zhu, Marlton, NJ (US);
Metrologic Instruments, Inc., Blackwood, NJ (US);
Fedex Corporate Services, Inc., Collierville, TN (US);
Abstract
An Internet-based shipping, tracking, and delivery network supporting the capture of shipping document images and recognition-processing thereof initiated from a point of shipment pickup and completed while shipments are transported to its first scanning point in said network so as to significantly increase velocity of shipping information through the network, as well as reduce delivery time over the network.