Patents by Inventor Eric Heard

Eric Heard 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).

  • Method, apparatus, and computer program product for routing files within a document management system
    Patent number: 9495440
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for routing files within a document management system. The document management system may comprise or may otherwise communicate with an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system and Full Text Search (FTS) indexing system. Files may be fed to a file routing apparatus with different priorities based on an originating source. The files may be routed for OCR processing and/or FTS indexing based on file and/or document types, licensing, and/or the like. Images and corresponding machine-readable text may be archived. Text may be FTS indexed so that the associated files may be identified and accessed by various client systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: McKesson Financial Holdings
    Inventors: Eric Heard, Steven M Russell
  • Method, Apparatus, And Computer Program Product For Routing Files Within A Document Management System
    Publication number: 20150278338
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for routing files within a document management system. The document management system may comprise or may otherwise communicate with an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system and Full Text Search (FTS) indexing system. Files may be fed to a file routing apparatus with different priorities based on an originating source. The files may be routed for OCR processing and/or FTS indexing based on file and/or document types, licensing, and/or the like. Images and corresponding machine-readable text may be archived. Text may be FTS indexed so that the associated files may be identified and accessed by various client systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Eric Heard, Steven M Russell