Appeal No. 2006-1279
Application No. 10/249,005
The disclosed invention pertains to a system and method for
safe mail transmission by reading information from a document
from within a protective enclosure. Specifically, the invention
involves decontaminating the document's protective enclosure,
illuminating the protective enclosure, and detecting an image of
the document's content. The content's image may be sent
electronically or in hard copy form to the recipient.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A method for reading information from a document from
within a protective enclosure comprising:
receiving the protective enclosure from a delivery service;
decontaminating the protective enclosure received from the
delivery service;
placing the protective enclosure in a detector;
illuminating the protective enclosure using an illuminating
source;
detecting the entire document content using a detector
sensor;
printing a new hard copy of the entire document using the
detector sensor;
transmitting the document content to a recipient; and
sending the new hard copy document to the recipient.
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