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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2012
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Robert J. St. Jacques, Fairport, NY (US);
Mary Catherine McCorkindale, Fairport, NY (US);
Saurabh Prabhat, Webster, NY (US);
Michael Robert Furst, Penfield, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A method and system for identifying and acting on a handwritten action item is disclosed. The system may learn a set of user-defined symbols and associate each symbol with an action category. Then, when the system that captures a handwritten action item that includes one of the symbols, it will determine which action category that corresponds to the symbol, identify process parameters in the action item, determine a task to be performed based on the action category, and apply the process parameters to automatically perform the task.