Patents by Inventor Bruce A. Burden

Bruce A. Burden 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).

  • Parallel document buffer and method of buffering documents
    Patent number: 6124561
    Abstract: A parallel document buffer for holding a plurality of documents while recognition processing is performed on data captured from the documents. Information from each document in a document stream is captured, and passed to a recognition processor. Each document is then passed to one of a plurality of parallel buffer stages of a document buffer, and held until a specified processing time has elapsed. Upon expiration of the processing time, the document is returned to the document stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Graham Luckhurst, Bruce A. Burden, Gary E. Botzang, Vernon W. Tarbutt