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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:
Feb. 02, 2016

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2011
Applicants:

Koichi Mori, San Jose, CA (US);

Hayes Raffle, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Rafael A. Ballagas, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Hiroshi Horii, Burlingame, CA (US);

Inventors:

Koichi Mori, San Jose, CA (US);

Hayes Raffle, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Rafael A. Ballagas, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Hiroshi Horii, Burlingame, CA (US);

Assignee:

Nokia Corporation, Espoo, FI;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/00 (2006.01); H04W 24/00 (2009.01); H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04M 1/725 (2006.01); H04M 1/2755 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/72552 (2013.01); H04M 1/2755 (2013.01); H04N 1/0036 (2013.01); H04N 1/00307 (2013.01); H04N 1/00326 (2013.01); H04N 1/00331 (2013.01); H04N 1/00336 (2013.01); H04N 1/00355 (2013.01); H04N 1/00374 (2013.01); H04N 1/32037 (2013.01); H04N 1/32096 (2013.01); H04M 1/72555 (2013.01); H04M 2250/52 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0096 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one exemplary embodiment, a method includes: capturing image data for physical content, where the physical content includes a recipient image indicative of at least one desired recipient; performing image recognition on the captured image data to identify the recipient image; matching the recipient image with corresponding contact information to obtain address information for the at least one desired recipient; and addressing an electronic communication to the at least one desired recipient using the address information, where the electronic communication includes the captured image data for the physical content.


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