611 results about "Paperless office" patented technology

This paperless book is portable and uses removable ROM devices to provide the visual and aural information displayed in the paperless book. The book can be read in a visual mode, as print, or in an aural mode, as the spoken word corresponding to the print, or in both visual and aural modes. The display mode may be conveniently shifted back and forth between visual and aural, for use, for example, by a counter who uses the book in the aural mode while driving and switches to the visual mode while riding on a train. In addition, the visual display may be manipulated affecting the appearance, for use, for example, by persons with reduced visual acuity. Movies also may be viewed using the paperless book. Finally, portions of the text may be enhanced by additional visual images, music or other sounds.

A universal electronic transaction card (“UET card”) is capable of serving as a number of different credit cards, bank cards, identification cards, employee cards, medical cards and the like. The UET card includes storage elements, an input interface, a processor, a display, and a communications interface. In a preferred embodiment, the UET card stores transactional information to eliminate paper receipts and includes security features to prevent unauthorized use. The UET card may also be used to replace conventional currency and traveler's checks, and may be configured to store and display promotional information, such as advertising and incentives. A communications interface unit (“CIU”) may be provided to interface between the UET card and a personal computer, automatic banking terminal (commonly referred to as ATM machines) and / or an institutional mainframe computer. CIU devices may include electrical contact for recharging a UET card. A system of utilizing the UET card is also provided which includes UET cards and CIU devices which enable the transmission of information between point of sales (or point of transactions) computers and the UET cards. The system further includes point of sales computers configured to communicate with the UET card and with service institution computers. The invention also includes a health care management system utilizing UET cards. In the health care management system, all medical information for a patient may be stored in the UET card so that when a patient receives services from a health care provider, that health care provider connects the patient's UET card to the health care provider's computer system and can then obtain all pertinent medical information concerning the patient, including the patient's medical history, insurance information and the like. In addition, the treatment or services provided by the health care provider are stored in the patient's UET card. The invention also includes methods of issuing an account authorization to a UET card, a method of transferring transactional and account information between a UET card and a personal computer or a mainframe computer, a method of using the UET card as a remote terminal for a mainframe computer, and a method of conducting an electronic transaction.

Current approaches to paperless books use single screen laptop computers or electronic paper display (EPD)-based book readers. Laptop computers consume too much power and cannot be used for extended periods of time, such as an entire school day, without recharging its battery. EPD devices are limited in functionality due to their slow refresh rate and grey-scale only images. An embodiment of the present invention integrates bi-stable display technology and refresh display technology into a single device and manages the use of these technologies to achieve power savings while providing a rich set of display functionalities to support user interaction with content in a synergistic manner. The power savings functionality enables the device to have a battery operating life between charges of many hours of operation, such as eight hours or more, while the display functionality enables users to access, display, and interact with content in ways users have become accustomed and in ways not before possible.

A method and program product for providing paperless receipts for conducting business transactions. Biometric data and product specific identification information is collected with each purchase and included with an electronic receipt generated for each purchase. The collected product specific information may include product serial numbers for some products, all products or product valued above a minimum threshold cost. The biometric data may include a digital image of each purchaser. The electronic receipt may be passed directly to the customer.

A method and system provides for scanning a check and / or cash to create an electronic image of the front and the back of the check and / or cash. The image is then processed and transmitted electronically to a central location. The image may be recreated into a paper form at the central location, resembling the original paper check or cash, including a machine-readable regeneration of the MICR code line data captured from the original instrument. Paperless processing of checks and cash is thus provided, including local voiding and storage of the check without requiring immediate pickup, while still allowing the transaction to be process.

The invention discloses an intelligent interactive multimedia teaching system which provides multimedia teaching data based on a computer executable platform, thus carrying out real-time and interactive teaching. The system comprises an interactive multimedia display screen, a teacher control terminal, a multimedia data exchanger and a plurality of student control display terminals, wherein the teacher control terminal controls the operation of the whole system; and the multimedia data exchanger is used for carrying out point-to-point, point-to-group, group-to-group and point-to-side real-time exchange, transmission and reception on the multimedia data between the teacher control terminal and the student control display terminals. The invention also discloses an interactive teaching method based on the system, which is characterized in that the teacher can formulate individual teaching aiding plans aiming at each student or each group of students and teach the students in accordance with the aptitudes of the students; and the students can request the teacher control terminal for connection. The system can not only implement paperless teaching but also provide diversified, real-time and interactive multimedia teaching information.

A system for managing large quantities of business related documents stored electronically requires little or no reliance on the corresponding hardcopy versions. The management system data includes a processing approach that allows for the creation of documents electronically, i.e., by virtual documents the system users in concert with their everyday business activities-thus overcoming the previous difficulty in implementing paperless office environments. In particular, essentially all documents are stored as system available image files on a central image server. Organization of these image based virtual documents are created during initial document review by the users having review responsibilities in the first instance. During the review process, the system provides a highly intelligent user interface which permits the creation of indexing values corresponding to the document in a highly simplified and intuitive manner. This permits the rapid and burden free preparation of document indices to support useful interaction with the image based virtual document-thus eliminating the need for any supporting hardcopy.

A method and computer program product for providing paperless customs documentation associated with an international parcel shipment. In various embodiments, the method comprises storing shipping data associated with a parcel shipment, the shipping data designating a destination country and including invoice data, verifying that the destination country accepts electronic customs documentation, and creating an electronic invoice from the shipping data. In various embodiments, the electronic invoice may be easily accessed, such as being transmitted over a network or stored in an RFID transponder associated with the parcel shipment. As a result, the present invention reduces the costs and shipping times associated with preparing, processing, and receiving international shipments by determining whether a country accepts paperless customs documentation and, if so, providing a variety of functions that streamline the international shipping process.

A method for accomplishing a paperless financial transaction is provided. The method, which may include the extension of credit, begins when a user submits data initiating and authorizing the financial transaction. From this data or a subset thereof, an electronically created check file or a combination of an electronically created check file and electronically created negotiable instrument image file are generated and are delivered for forward collection. Where credit is needed, two electronically created check files are generated—one to pay a merchant or creditor of the user, and the other, which may be held for a predetermined amount of time, to repay the entity extending credit. In either case, the transaction can be accomplished without the need of an original document.

A modular signature and data capture device employs a standardized ISA bus, standardized communication ports, and standardized ×86 CPU architecture to promote flexibility in using past, present, and future software and accessories. A VGA-caliber backlit LCD is superimposingly combined with a pressure touch pad that is useable with a passive stylus. The LCD displays pen drawn signatures and graphics in real-time, and can display images and data stored in the device, or downloaded from a host system, including advertisements. The LCD can also display menus, device instructions, virtual pressure-sensitive data keys, and control keys. The device includes a built-in a three-stripe magnetic card reader unit. The device accepts PCMCIA-compatible accessories including solid state memory units and smartcards, and is compatible with plug-in accessories including an external PIN keypad entry unit, a fingerprint unit, an omnibus unit including a printer and check processor in addition to a fingerprint unit. Security is provided by DES-encrypting PIN data and / or using Master / Session and / or DUKPT key management, or by using fingerprint token data as a PIN. The invention may be used to conduct paperless transactions in which the merchant is paid in realtime. Further, merchant purchase profiles may be generated on a per-user basis to promote more effective advertising.

A method and apparatus for creating a computerized market and integrated service chain for the aviation industry by use of a plurality of participant terminals using software tools and electronic devices. The present invention provides suppliers with specialized marketing and pricing tools for participating and non-participating aircraft operators and offers aircraft operators tools for displaying, managing, and analyzing suppliers' pricing and service offerings. The invention additionally creates a means for aircraft operators to integrate scheduling activities with the purchase of fuel and services in a paperless, detailed reporting environment, while using one or more credit providers but without the need for pilots to present any physical form of payment. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, suppliers are provided a method to display, manage, and integrate service requests from all aircraft operators. The present invention also creates a more secure operating environment for aircraft, crew members, passengers, airports, and the nation's infrastructure through a crew / passenger ramp access verification process and by transmitting to the aircraft operator, departure facility, TSA, FAA, NORAD, and other appropriate government agencies, risk scoring algorithms that quantify the potential risk posed by each aircraft.

The invention discloses an intelligent mobile phone routing inspection system and an intelligent mobile phone routing inspection method based on near field communication (NFC). The routing inspection system comprises a handheld routing inspection system and a background management center, wherein the background management center comprises a routing inspection data processing system and a client; the handheld routing inspection terminal can communicate with the routing inspection data processing system through a mobile Internet in real time; and the routing inspection data processing system exchanges data with the client through a local network. The routing inspection method comprises the following steps that a routing inspector scans an NFC label of equipment subjected to routing inspection by an NFC intelligent mobile phone, automatically records the routing inspection time through a cloth arranged in the mobile phone, directly types state information of the routing inspection equipment into the mobile phone, selects a state information storage or sending button, confirms information of the inspector and uploads data information to the background management center and the routing inspection data processing system for processing through the mobile Internet. According to the system and the method, paper-free work for routing inspection and intelligent management can be realized; the cost is reduced; the routing inspection efficiency and the responsibility of a worker are improved; and the mistake probability is reduced.

Electronic transaction receipts in remote non-networked sales equipment are sent through infrared or radio frequency means to portable electronic devices such as personal digital assistants (PDA's) / smart cellular telephones that are in the possession of the consumer. These portable devices are possessed by the consumer and are in very close proximity to the POS device transmitting the information. Security procedures also verify the receiving device to avoid inadvertent transmissions and to provide addition security for the transmission. The information and records received by these portable devices may be stored and uploaded into other electronic media at the discretion of the consumer.

The invention discloses a smart paperless examination system and method. The smart paperless examination system comprises a user management module, a test base management module, an examination paper management module, an examination control module, an online examination module, an online paper inspection module, a summary statistics module and a server module. The smart paperless examination method includes the following steps: maintaining examinee information and answer sheet information, distributing reference permissions and paper inspection permissions, performing online examination, conducting automatic marking on objective questions and manual marking on subjective questions, and finally performing statistical summary to obtain the examination scores. The smart paperless examination system and method not only solve the problems of organizing complexity of the traditional examination pattern, low efficiency and large amount of personal and material waste, but also are wide in application, flexible and scientific, fair and just, and safe and secretive.

The method and system of the present invention function perform signature verification using third party authenticator via paperless electronic transaction platform. The invention is particularly suited to electronic commerce transactions that require a legally binding, traditional notarization by a live notary public, albeit in a format that is compatible to and electronic commerce. A customer downloads an appropriate electronic document from an electronic document repository and inputs the required information into the electronic document. After inputting all of the required information, the customer uploads the electronic document to an electronic document repository. An electronic transaction manager determines when all of the required information from each of the parties is present and amalgamates all of the information into a single final electronic document. The parties required to execute the electronic document are notified that the electronic document is ready to be electronically signed and electronically notarized. The signatories go to a notary public or a mobile notary public may travel to a location designated by the requesting signatory. The signatory inputs a manual, hand-written signature to the electronic document, using a electronic signature capture input device. The notary public inputs a manual, hand-written signature to the electronic document, using the electronic signature capture input device. The notary public next affixes an electronic notary seal by way of the electronic notary seal input device. After affixing the notary public's signature and seal, a desktop manager automatically executes an electronic notary journal. The electronic notary journal consists of all of the information required by law to legally enforce the notarization of the electronic commerce transaction.

The invention discloses a financial bill reimbursement automatic processing method. The method comprises the following steps of: 1) establishing a bill paradigm database; 2) scanning bills to be reimbursed, and processing scanned images; 3) reading a paradigm comparison rule table of the type of bills stored in the bill paradigm database, and comparing the paradigm comparison rule table with trace information in a database table of the bills to be reimbursed; and 4) manually monitoring the trace information of the bills, and judging whether the bills are genuine or not; when the bills are genuine, creating a new paradigm comparison rule table, storing the new paradigm comparison rule table into the bill paradigm database, storing a bill scanning copy into a temporary storage database, and accessing a bill reimbursement process; and when the bills are false, ending a processing flow. By the method, various bills can be automatically identified and processed, the reimbursement process is simplified, the labor intensity of working personnel is reduced, processing efficiency is improved, paperless office is realized, and high social value and economic value are created for enterprises and society.

The invention discloses a paperless boarding system based on a two-dimension code technology and a biometric identification technology. The adopted technical scheme is that passengers purchase electronic tickets by different ways, select a required flight, and pay by cash or on the network; on the basis of receiving prior noticed passenger information (API data) and payment conformation, airline companies determine traveling reservation and issue the electronic tickets, verify information, such as flight reservation, authentication, bill payment state, travel document and no-fly lists of airline companies and the like, and affirm flight rights of passengers, activate the electronic tickets to help passengers to pass through related facilities of the airport, security check and airline companies and then board the aircraft. The system leaves out ticket delivery and ticket picking up time and timely solves unforeseen situations such as airline ticket loss and the like; tickets reservation is not constricted in space; and electronic tickets only need electronic reservation and the passengers can board airplane successfully by remote, network or telephone payment.

The invention provides an information system for self-help declaring and supervising of entry / exit passengers, which is used for completing health condition declaration and automatic body temperature monitoring by the passengers in the entry and exit port. The information system comprises a health self-help declaring terminal and a background management and monitoring system which are in distributed connection through a network. The declaring terminal integrates a certificate identification module, a multimedia information input / output module, an automatic portrait capturing and processing module, a body temperature collecting and processing module, a data processing and transmission module, and a photoelectric detection and caution module. The declaring terminal is used for collecting identity information and body temperature data of the passenger, uploading the data to the background management and monitoring system to implement comprehensive treatment, and finally giving an instruction to the declaration passenger according to the comparison between the passenger information collected and the data of the system. The information system for self-help declaring and supervising of entry / exit passengers has the advantages that the informationization level of the entry and exit port is improved, and the problems of paperless health declaration on the port and health declaration requirements of the passengers on the entry and exit port with large flow are solved.

An engineering project tendering and bidding transaction electronic platform is characterized in that the electronic platform comprises a tendering and bidding application system which is based on a B / S architecture, a database and a bid evaluation expert voice extraction system. The engineering project tendering and bidding transaction electronic platform is based on the entity application of the engineering tendering and bidding, strictly in accordance with the requirements of the law of tendering and bidding and closely combined with the entity tendering and bidding business procedure, the businesses from the client registration to the archiving record filling can be completed on the transaction platform, thereby basically realizing the paperless office and the information process management, standardizing the operation of tendering and bidding, alleviating the workload of staff of a transaction center, reducing the time of tendering agents and bidding enterprises during the tendering and the bidding, simultaneously saving the social cost and effectively ensuring the scientific property and the impartiality of the extraction of bid evaluation experts, the bid evaluation process and other tendering and bidding procedures.

The invention relates to a digital interaction laboratory which is made up with teacher controlling station, student controlled station, network switch and more than one menu processors. The teacher controlling station includes teacher controlling computer, image collection device, image output device and voice equipments. The student controlled station includes student computer, image collection device and voice equipments. Adopting the invention, interaction experiments teach of biology, physics and chemistry can be made. The invention can transfer and broadcast real-time active images of each kind of imaging equipments and memorize these images. Also it can supervise images displayed in students' terminal image collection equipment, running state of student computer and students' action. Using the invention, teacher can instruct students to observe microscopic images and kinds of science experiments process, communicate with students using voice, words and images. The teacher can conduct multiple analysis and treatment to realize teacher's electronic preparation and lessons and students' no-paper work. The system can conduct system manage to kinds of information in laboratory and self define format of experiment report.

A paperless online system is provided consisting of issuance of a PVC magnetic stripe Coupon Card to retail customers (cardholders) upon registration and Electronic Coupons, linked to a Coupon Card by cardholders via networks of personal computers or other devices. Each Electronic Coupon is descriptive data supplied by product Manufacturer or Service Provider, electronically stored in a Central Database, and is formatted to be displayed online for browsing and selection. Coupon data specifically describes instructions and discount amounts pertaining to the Electronic Coupon, UPC codes to which it applies, effective and expiration dates, as well as the number of Electronic Coupon instances to be issued in total and to each individual customer. Each Electronic Coupon can be linked to a card of any cardholder interested in receiving the discount designated by the Electronic Coupon. Electronic Coupon does not contain a barcode and does not need to be printed out in order to be redeemed. Retail Merchant's Point of Sale method is provided for Electronic Coupon redemption. It entails handling the transaction initiated with the Coupon Card as a type of payment, in order to provide appropriate discounts to cardholder. Multiple products or services can be discounted per each card swipe, corresponding to the Electronic Coupons linked to that card. The backend central processing method and system is provided, including the following: importing Electronic Coupon data into the Central Database, Coupon Card transaction receiving, processing and returning the result to Merchant's Point of Sale terminal, Manufacturer or Service Provider settlement and billing process, retail Merchant settlement and funding process.

A computer system and method is disclosed for paperless Form I-9 processing, and for automating employment eligibility verification. The system and method displays a series of screens with fillable fields configured to receive immigration information. After substantial completion of the fillable fields by a user, the system displays an affirmation screen with affirmation language necessary to meet a statutory requirement for a valid electronic signature and an interface element affirming such language. Only after the interface element has been actuated is a file containing the completed fillable fields marked with an indication that the file has been electronically signed. The employment eligibility verification aspects disclosed utilize a database and server architecture to receive information provided on an electronic I-9 or other electronic employment eligibility form and perform computerized employment eligibility verification queries with the Federal Government. Scanned documents such as paper I-9s may be uploaded, indexed, tracked, and otherwise processed.

Provided is an automated paperless order selection system of the type wherein an electronic order picking unit moves horizontally along a rail directly to a product storage location, thereby decreasing the distance traveled by the order picker and improving the accuracy of the order picking process, such order picking unit having an incremental encoder means for determining its exact location on the rail, and having a wireless radio frequency data communication (RF / DC) capability, and preferably including a printer, bar code scanner as well as audit and inventory report features.

Electronic transaction receipts in remote non-networked sales equipment are sent through infrared or radio frequency means to portable electronic devices such as personal digital assistants (PDA's) / smart cellular telephones that are in the possession of the consumer. These portable devices are possessed by the consumer and are in very close proximity to the POS device transmitting the information. Security procedures also verify the receiving device to avoid inadvertent transmissions and to provide addition security for the transmission. The information and records received by these portable devices may be stored and uploaded into other electronic media at the discretion of the consumer.

A workflow system for a paperless office, an information processing apparatus, a method for simply defining a complicated workflow, for example, a workflow such as a circulation among a plurality of departments where the circulation route varies in each department, and a storage medium. A workflow system comprises: a manipulating computer terminal for executing a workflow between persons in charge, a computer terminal for designing the workflow by designating project variables for multiplexing a plurality of paths for nodes, each indicating a unit of operation to be handled; and a workflow server for managing the designed workflow and accessing the manipulating computer terminals in accordance with activities that indicate operations assigned to the nodes.

The invention discloses a paperless electronic invoice system, which comprises a mobile phone, a point-of-sale (POS) and a data processing host, wherein the POS is provided with a bar code reading module and an electronic invoice functional module; the mobile phone can download an identification bar code through the data processing host and displays the bar code on a screen; and when a consumer performs consumption in a shop, the consumer can show the identification bar code on the screen of the mobile phone, the bar code reading module of the POS reads the identification bar code and performs check-out operation, the electronic invoice functional module generates an electronic invoice and upload the electronic invoice to the data processing host after check-out, and the data processing host can identify the mobile phone identity, manage the electronic invoice information and perform electronic invoice prize claiming operation by the identification bar code to fulfill the aim of a paperless electronic invoice.

The invention combines a field working portable device such as a portable computer as a hardware platform for mobile GIS with satellite positioning technique and total station positioning technique to realize the whole process on illegally applied ground including transgress information collection, site image forming, displaying, editing, storing and refreshing. The portable computer is communicated with the total station via the connection with a wire cable serial-port line or wireless Bluetooth to receive and extract positioning information; meanwhile, the portable computer builds network connection with a monitoring central server via a mobile communication network to realize real-time satellite differential positioning, map data download, and site information upload. With the invention, the visual geometric mapping results is the final results and information inputting is easily achieved, so that the whole data process procedure is paper-free, electronized, real-time, fool-type, and intelligent, thereby greatly increasing field working efficiency, reducing labor intensity and reducing professional requirement for the measurement personnel.

The invention discloses a method for manufacturing electric equipment through combination of 3D printing and a traditional manufacturing technology and a purpose of the method. Firstly, a three-dimensional CAD model of parts is generated in a computer; then, the model is sliced into layers according to a certain thickness, three-dimensional information of the parts are converted into a series of two-dimensional contour information, and metal is molten through a crucible, and formed molten drops flow out of a nozzle; then, under control of the computer, the molten drops are stacked layer by layer according to the two-dimensional contour information, and three-dimensional solid parts or similar-shape parts are obtained. By means of the method, all designs are achieved in the computer, the actual manufacturing process is carried out under the control of the computer, the advantages of digital, intelligent and paperless manufacturing are really achieved, a complex three-dimensional structure can be directly formed, constraint conditions in the part design and manufacturing processes in the traditional technology are reduced, and the method is a new development direction in the constraint-free forming technology.

The invention discloses an LNG ship remote monitoring system. An AIS system of an LNG ship supervision platform is used for analyzing an AIS message to obtain information of a supervised ship so as to position the supervised ship, and a ship position is displayed through an electronic chart system; corresponding supervision data and query statistical information of the ship are displayed for people with different permissions at a client based on the permission management. The system disclosed by the invention integrates an information technology, a networking technology, an intelligent technology and a visualization technology, can cover the whole LNG ship and a sea area in an LNG wharf to perform the remote monitoring on the LNG ship, thereby achieving aims of remote visualization monitoring, information acquisition, paperless office, and all-weather supervision; the problems of insufficient functions of traditional monitoring equipment, difficulty in performing automatic evaluation on navigation safety of the LNG ship, the risk source certification and analytic hierarchy method of LNG ship berthing and departing and unloading job, and fuzzy comprehensive evaluationare solved, and the interconnection and intercommunication among port and waterway, pilotage, port control and maritime affairs departments, an LNG receiving station and the like can be effectively realized.