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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.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2011

Filed:

Nov. 29, 2006
Applicants:

Krishnendu Chaudhury, Bangalore, IN;

Ashutosh Garg, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Prasenjit Phukan, Mountain View, CA (US);

Arvind Saraf, Surat, IN;

Inventors:

Krishnendu Chaudhury, Bangalore, IN;

Ashutosh Garg, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Prasenjit Phukan, Mountain View, CA (US);

Arvind Saraf, Surat, IN;

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/72 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A computer-implemented method of managing information is disclosed. The method can include receiving a message from a mobile device configured to connect to a mobile device network (the message including a digital image taken by the mobile device and including information corresponding to words), determining the words from the digital image information using optical character recognition, indexing the digital image based on the words, and storing the digital image for later retrieval of the digital image based on one or more received search terms.


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