Appeal No. 95-4023
Application 08/062,033
The claimed invention relates to a computerized apparatus
for tracking documents that are being sorted by an automated
mail sorting machine.
Claim 17 is reproduced as follows:
17. A document surveillance system for tracking a
document traveling along a transport path in a document
sorting system comprising:
a plurality of sensors, positioned in sequence
along the transport path, for detecting an edge
of the document;
optical character reading mechanism, positioned
along the transport path, for reading characters
located on the document;
means, operably coupled to the plurality of
sensors, for determining document status of the
document as it travels along the transport path
wherein the means for determining document
status further comprises means for passing edge
detection information between the plurality of
sensors, said edge detection information
comprising a unique document identifier and a
representation of a position of a transport
mechanism associated with said transport path;
and,
a document labeling mechanism for labeling the
document in response to output from the optical
character reader.
The reference relied on by the Examiner is as follows:
Cloud et al. (Cloud) 4,503,976 Mar. 12,
1985
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