Michael R Daley

US Patent:

52356540, Aug 10, 1993

Filed:

Apr 30, 1992

Appl. No.:

7/876279

Inventors:

Gerald B. Anderson - Scarborough, CA
James H. Bamford - Gaithersburg MD
Timothy S. Betts - Germantown MD
Valerie M. Carras - Kensington MD
Michael C. Concagh - Damascus MD
Michael E. Daley - Rockville MD
James M. Hawkins - Fleetwood NY
Peter M. Jakab - Mississauga, CA
Lewis B. Knecht - Olney MD
Fredric W. Kratochvil - Ijamsville MD
Thomas L. Paulson - Potomac MD
Doraiswamy Rajagopal - Gaithersburg MD
Manoj K. Tiwari - Germantown MD

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06K 920

US Classification:

382 61

Abstract:

An advanced data capture architecture is disclosed which enables the free-definition and re-definition of the format of document forms without requiring any reprogramming of the data processors which capture and use the data on the completed forms. The architecture encompasses the interactive operation of a host processor and one or more workstations in a data processing system. It includes the interaction between a host processor and a workstation in providing a list of common operand names which are meaningful to an application program running on the host. It includes the operation of the workstation creating a new document form using the list of common operand names. It includes the workstation performing character recognition of the filled-out form, transforming its information into coded data. It includes the workstation assembling a field data segment for each field, containing the common operand, the coded data and the popular name for the field. And it includes the operation of the host processor receiving the assembled field data segments from the workstation and providing the coded data to the application program which processes the information right from the form.