Patents by Inventor Barr T. Carris

Barr T. Carris has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Barcode translation for deferred optical character recognition mail processing
    Patent number: 5249687
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for enabling the technique of deferred processing of OCR scanned mail to be compatible with existing techniques for mechanical sortation of mail that use standard sort barcode formats which are common to a given destination postal system. This enables deferred OCR processed mail to be sorted on an unsegregated basis along with other types of mail which have not been processed by the deferred OCR technique. This allows the OCR encoded mail to be processed along with other types of encoded mail during standard sort barcode that has been imprinted using prior technology such as OCR or manual code desks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1993
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Walter S. Rosenbaum, Barr T. Carris, Anker Ankerstjerne