Registers – Systems controlled by data bearing records – Transportation
Reexamination Certificate
2007-10-31
2010-11-23
Kim, Ahshik (Department: 2876)
Registers
Systems controlled by data bearing records
Transportation
C235S462010, C235S462090
Reexamination Certificate
active
07837105
ABSTRACT:
A method of translating a shipping document regarding one or more shipment items being shipped, tracked and delivered to a final destination using a Web-based shipping, tracking, and delivery information network. At the point of shipment pickup, the method involves digitally imaging an original shipping document (or shipping label) in connection with a shipment, at one or more image resolutions. The bar-coded shipment tracking number graphically represented in the original shipping document is automatically read, and its character data string is automatically encoded into the header of the corresponding digital image file and/or the name of the digital image file. While the shipment is being delivered to the first scanning point in the network, the digital image file is transmitted over a wireless communication link to one or more digital image processing application servers supported on the network. The digital images are processed so that shipping information contained in the digital images (and indexed with the original shipment tracking number) is automatically abstracted/recognized, and loaded into the shipping information RDBMS maintained on the network. When the delivered shipment arrives at the first scanning point in the network, the bar-coded shipment tracking number (contained in the original shipping document) is read, and corresponding shipping information maintained in an RDBMS is accessed. A unique network-assigned shipping label is automatically generated, and the unique network-assigned shipping label is applied to the shipment items at the first scanning point in the network, for use in managing future services supported on the network.
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Dryden Cameron Dee
Gordon Wayne Luke
Rhodes, Jr. Robert Russell
Skaaksrud Ole-Petter
Smith Jeffrey Robert
Fedex Corporate Services, Inc.
Kim Ahshik
Metrologic Instruments Inc.
Perkowski Esq. P.C. Thomas J.
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