54 results about "Tracking Document" patented technology

A workflow system and method include tracking the physical movement of documents. The information of the physical movement is incorporated with the flow graph of a workflow. A display of the workflow can then be enhanced by the information relating to the physical movement of the document.

The present invention relates to various digital watermarking methods and systems. In one embodiment, a handheld device displays a digitally watermarked ticket image at an event center. At the event center, a watermark decoder extracts the watermark to determine authorized entry. In another embodiment, a plurality of microlenses can provide a polarized luminance pattern on a display. The pattern corresponds to (or conveys) a unique device identifier. In yet another embodiment, monetary objects are watermarked with payload information to signify currency denomination. The payload information, once extracted, is used to provide feedback regarding the currency denomination. An audio signal or Braille output can be provided as feedback. In still another embodiment, a document management system is based on watermarks. Embedded watermarks are used to track document history, determine document version information, and enhance overall security. In still another embodiment, an inventory system reads watermarks that have been directly applied to inventory items. Inventory management is greatly enhanced. Handheld computing devices are advantageously employed with these embodiments.

Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata, are disclosed. In one exemplary method, metadata representing a document lineage are stored, and the stored metadata are searched. The metadata representing a document lineage may comprise a document identifier, identifying a collection of related documents; a file identifier, identify document branches in the collection of related documents; and version identifier, identifying a version of document within a branch of documents. The searching of metadata allows the identifying and tracking of document lineage through modification and duplication operations. Other methods are described and data processing systems and machine readable media are also described.

A system and method for secure document management including tagging and / or remotely tracking documents exchanged between one or more users and a document repository. In some embodiments, the security policies for documents are determined based at least in part on document content, metadata associated with the document, and / or usage history of the document.

A software application and corresponding architecture to implement the application that dynamically updates the access control list and keeps track of the distribution routes of a document in a repository where the document is built and accessed through usage of a common email system. The access control list and distribution routes are built by tracking recipients of the email message linked to the document. Some recipients can be disabled by the originator from forwarding the referenced databases within the emailed document, while others may designate further transmissions to selected persons or groups.

In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for tracking documents in an on-demand service. These mechanisms and methods for tracking documents in an on-demand service can enable embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the tracking of whether one of the shared documents was changed. The ability of embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the tracking can enable a safeguard that a user knows whether the document that they have in their possession is the most recent version.In an embodiment, the shared documents are stored in a document management storage. In an embodiment, each file has an ID that includes version information for checking whether the document is the most recent version. In an embodiment, an application is downloaded onto the user system that automatically upon opening a document checks whether a document is the most recent version.

A system and method are provided for processing a document image using color highlighting. The method comprises: scanning a document, creating a document image; searching the document image for a color-highlighted area; processing the document image with optical character recognition (OCR), creating a text document; identifying a text phrase associated with the color-highlighted area; searching the text document for the identified text phrase; and, tracking each area in the document image associated with the identified text phrase. Searching the document image for a color-highlighted area includes supplying a coordinate associated with the color-highlighted area. A text phrase in the text document is identified in response to locating the text phrase at the color-highlighted area coordinates. Tracking each area in the document image associated with the identified text phrase includes: tracking the coordinates of each identified text phrase in the text document; and, transposing the coordinates to the document image.

In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for tracking documents in an on-demand service. These mechanisms and methods for tracking documents in an on-demand service can enable embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the tracking of whether one of the shared documents was changed. The ability of embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the tracking can enable a safeguard that a user knows whether the document that they have in their possession is the most recent version.In an embodiment, the shared documents are stored in a document management storage. In an embodiment, each file has an ID that includes version information for checking whether the document is the most recent version. In an embodiment, an application is downloaded onto the user system that automatically upon opening a document checks whether a document is the most recent version.

An improved method and system for managing the traceability of numerical, alphabetical, alphanumeric, character, or string entities such as critical constants or key calculations, equations, functions, and procedures that automatically enables the traceability of information entities without requiring significant manual intervention by a system user. The system allows a user to enter critical information such a critical constant or key calculation into a first document. When the user copies / exports the critical information from the first document and pastes / imports the information to a second document, the system automatically generates meta-data describing the provenance of the information, and propagates the provenance meta-data from the first document to the second document. By accessing provenance meta-data contained within respective documents, the user can track where critical information within a document originally came from, and which intermediary document or documents the critical information came from last.

Systems and methods are disclosed that track a document within a file system using document identifier (DOCID) that is preserved during safe save operations. The DOCID can be a universally unique identifier (UUID). The DOCID can be generated on a local file system or generated during a synchronization process with a remote synchronization service. Applications can opt in to document tracking. The kernel of the operating system can monitor file system operations on a per-application and per-thread basis and determine when a processing thread is about to perform a safe save. When a sequence of file system operations indicates that a safe save is to be performed, the kernel can generate and store a tombstone record that includes the DOCID and other metadata of the tracked document and pass the DOCID and metadata to the newly saved document.

In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for tracking documents in an on-demand service. These mechanisms and methods for tracking documents in an on-demand service can enable embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the tracking of whether one of the shared documents was changed. The ability of embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the tracking can enable a safeguard that a user knows whether the document that they have in their possession is the most recent version.In an embodiment, the shared documents are stored in a document management storage. In an embodiment, each file has an ID that includes version information for checking whether the document is the most recent version. In an embodiment, an application is downloaded onto the user system that automatically upon opening a document checks whether a document is the most recent version.

A document management system and method. The inventive system includes a server for providing data from a stored document. Software is provided on the server for encrypting the data. A communications subsystem is included for transporting the encrypted data from the server to the client. Software is provided at the client for decrypting the encrypted data. The inventive method includes the steps of: using a client machine to access a server via a network and to request data therefrom; encrypting at least a portion of said data on said server; communicating said encrypted data from said server to said client; and decrypting said data on said client. In the illustrative embodiment, the inventive method operates under the control of an agent residing on the server. The encrypting software is a first applet residing on the server and the decrypting software is a second applet residing on the client. In the illustrative implementation, the second applet is communicated from the server to the client. Several mechanisms are included for verifying the user's identity including a digital signature, a private key and a public key. In accordance with the invention, software is included for customizing the data based on the user's access rights; providing for secure modification of the shared document; and tracking submission, access, and changes in the document.

The invention discloses a broadcasting-mode automatic dependent surveillance track processing and a device thereof. The method includes receiving the message information transmitted by a plane with ADS-B equipment and initiating corresponding track documents of all planes. If the message information is speed information, the corresponding track documents of all planes are updated by the speed information; if the message information is position information, the corresponding track documents of all planes are updated by the position information; the updated track documents is sorted so as to renew the track documents in real time. The invention can achieve the track processing of ADS-B system and guarantee the continuity, accuracy and real-time performance of the track processing.

The invention provides document information embedding and tracking methods and systems and proxy service equipment. The document information embedding method comprises the following steps: receiving a first office document uploaded from a source terminal node in a local area network to an extranet; generating a trace file in an xml (extensive markup language) format from forward behavior information according to a configuration strategy, wherein the forward behavior information comprises at least source terminal node login information, an IP (Internet Protocol) address of the source terminal node and office document upload time; embedding the tracking file in the xml format into the first office document to obtain a second office document for uploading. After information leakage, related information generated by a secret leakage behavior can be acquired by examining or decoding operator information in the leaked Office document.

Systems and methods of cataloging substantially all interactions with substantially all versions of a document on a computer network comprising are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system may perform the following steps: determining that the document has entered the network; creating a history for the document, the history comprising references to each copy of the document on the network and each version of the document on the network; and updating the history each time a copy of the document or a version of the document is interacted with.

A system for enabling access to non-HTML files from a web browser. The system includes a database for storing non-HTML files. A system user requests a non-HTML file from a database using a web browser. The web browser transmits the request to a server via a HTTP server and module. The server locates and retrieves the document requested. The module translates the document to a format supported by the web browser. The HTTP server communicates the translated file to the web browser over a network. The web browser then presents the translated file to the system user. The server also includes a workflow module which distributes, routes and tracks documents according to predefined processes. The workflow module may execute the processes based on fields within the documents.

The present invention relates to a document management system on the basis of B / S configuration. The system is mainly configured to realize the operations of documents uploaded by itself, such as document uploading, document check, document modification, document destruction, document forwarding, document downloading and the like. The system is able to realize centralized management of document data and prevent important documents from falling into departments and personals to allow the safety and the confidentiality of the important documents to obtain effective protection; the system is able to realize the effective management of the document version and prevent the documents from misusing and losing; the system is able to realize the control to the user authority and effectively ensure the safety of the documents on the basis of the roles and reading grade management mechanism; the system is able to provide reliable and tracking document moving platform through the definition of the document approval flow so as to effective shorten the period of the document approval, improve the work efficiency and reduce the management cost; and the system is able to improve the enterprise document utilization efficiency and usage value, perform management of knowledge and experience accumulated in the growth process of the enterprise and establish an advanced knowledge management mode for the enterprise.

An approach for tracking documents using image processing is disclosed. Auxiliary information corresponding to compressed digital information is extracted. The auxiliary information is used to output text lines, which undergo a hash function (e.g., checksum operation). In this manner, individual hash values are generated, as well as an overall hash value of the entire file of text lines. A reference set of hash values are maintained to identify other compressed digital information.

A system and method for adaptive and predictive analysis of sensor readings to track documents in a document processing system. The system comprises: a plurality of sensors for sensing a document, wherein each sensor includes an associated filtering system for filtering sensor readings, and a performance tracking system for collecting performance data; and a control system that and adjusts filtering characteristics of the filtering system based on the collected performance data. In addition, a correlation system is provided for using data from at least one upstream sensor to interpret an ambiguous downstream sensor signal.

The invention provides a digital fingerprint-based PDF document copyright protection method. The method comprises the steps of firstly, designing encryption rules; secondly, hiding digital fingerprints through the information embedding algorithm to obtain a cipher-carrying PDF file; thirdly, extracting the digital fingerprints through the information extraction algorithm to convert the cipher-carrying PDF file to a plaintext. The method can track the identity information of a document leaking person and provide a new layer of protection aside from traditional file protection; the method uses a mixed method to hide identity information and increases the redundancy of hidden information through cyclic embedding, thereby improving the robustness of hidden information, being capable of resisting multiple attack modes and guaranteeing high security of hidden information. The method has certain practical value and a certain market promotion prospect, and not only can be used for protecting secret documents of enterprises and offices but also can be widely applied to copyright protection.

A system and method for tracking errors in a document processor during document processing operations. The system uses a job monitor that monitors the document processing operations performed by an associated document processing device. The job monitor periodically receives job status data indicating the status of the job being processed. When the job status indicates that an interruption in the processing of the job has occurred, an alert notification message is generated. The alert notification message includes the name of the job interrupted, the type of interruption, and the amount of the job completed prior to the interrupt. The alert notification message is then transmitted to a designated destination corresponding to a user application from which the job originated or to a system administrator application.

The invention discloses a multi-factor file watermark generation and extraction method. The method comprises the following steps of: obtaining user side information which comprises mobile terminal information, application program information and user information; generating a digital watermark according to the user side information, randomly generated sensitive information and a distribution serial number; embedding the digital watermark in a distributed file; and matching information in the user side information and the digital watermark at the mobile terminal so as to access file content inan application program on mobile terminal equipment through logging in a specific user. According to the method, after the file is leaked, the sensitive information reserved in a database is comparedwith the sensitive information obtained in the digital watermark to judge whether the content of the file watermark is real or not, so that a source of the file is correctly traced.

The invention provides a file tracking method and a network communication device with applicability of the same. The apparatus comprises a communication module, a storage module and a processing module. The communication module provides a network connecting wire for a cloud server for storing an electronic file; the storage module stores program codes of an operating system and a file tracking system and synchronously stores the electronic file; and the processing module loads and executes the program codes of the operating system and the file tracking system. When the storage position of the electronic file is changed at the storage module, the operating system generates first file changing information corresponding to first events. A file tracking system respectively obtains a feature corresponding to one first event and a unique identification code according to each file changing information, decides relevance among the first events based on the features and the unique identification codes, and determines whether the cloud server is notified to update the storage position of the electronic file based on the moving event by using the communication module according to the relevance. According to the invention, a file storage position and a moving path can be tracked.

The present invention provides a multi-split screen image with audio feed to document the training engagement. The multi video image combines an over-watch thermal image, the Loader's actions, the Gunner's actions, and the imagery from the vehicle's thermal imaging system. The audio track documents the communication within the vehicle and between the vehicle and the control tower. Further, the present invention provides a tower control module that also provides surveillance video over the firing range. Until the present invention no other gunnery-training device transmitted and displayed its imagery and audio in this manner.