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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:
Nov. 09, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2006
Applicants:
Hiroaki Ishizuka, Ridgewood, NJ (US);
Hiroaki Numata, Yokohama, JP;
Inventors:
Hiroaki Ishizuka, Ridgewood, NJ (US);
Hiroaki Numata, Yokohama, JP;
Assignees:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Ricoh Corporation, West Caldwell, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/46 (2006.01); G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An improved approach for managing a document having a plurality of versions is provided. For example, a scanned version of an edited hardcopy of the document is received from an image capture device and uploaded to an electronic database. The scanned version of the hardcopy of the document is linked to a previous electronic version of the document in the database as an update of the previous electronic version. A grouping of a plurality of electronic versions of the document is maintained in the database.