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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2011
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 including a data collection and processing center operably connected to the infrastructure of the Internet, and including a RDBMS for storing and managing shipping information, and a plurality of pickup/delivery vehicles. Each pickup/delivery vehicle is equipped with a mobile digital image capture and processing (MICAP) system for (i) capturing and processing digital images of shipping documents, bearing embedded bar codes, at the point of pickup, (ii) automatically decoding embedded bar codes in said shipping documents, and performing optical character recognition (OCR) on text presented therein, (iii) formatting captured digital images of the shipping labels with such decoded/recognized information, and (iv) transmitting the formatted digital images to said data collection and processing center, for automatic recognition processing and population of the RDBMS maintained by said network.