Patents by Inventor Laurence C. Klein

Laurence C. Klein 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).

  • Patent number: 8488173
    Abstract: A system and/or method enables a typical PC user to add electronic paper processing to their existing business process. The system and/or method extends the notion of copying from a process that involves paper going through a conventional copier device, to a process that involves paper being scanned from a device at one location and copied to a device at another location. Optionally, the system and/or method can copy paper from a device at one location directly into a business application residing on a network or on the Internet, or visa versa. The system and/or method is software that manages paper so that it can be electronically and seamlessly copied in and out of devices and business applications with an optional single-step operation. The system and/or method can reside on a PC, LAN/WAN server, digital device, or on a web server to be accessed over the Internet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: MPHJ Technology Investments, LLC
    Inventor: Laurence C. Klein
  • Publication number: 20110299124
    Abstract: A system and/or method enables a typical PC user to add electronic paper processing to their existing business process. The system and/or method extends the notion of copying from a process that involves paper going through a conventional copier device, to a process that involves paper being scanned from a device at one location and copied to a device at another location. In its more sophisticated form, the system and/or method can copy paper from a device at one location directly into a business application residing on a network or on the Internet, or visa versa. The system and/or method is software that manages paper so that it can be electronically and seamlessly copied in and out of devices and business applications (such as Microsoft Office, Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes) with an optional single-step operation. The system and/or method can reside on a PC, LAN/WAN server, digital device (such as a digital copier), or on a web server to be accessed over the Internet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Inventor: Laurence C. Klein
  • Patent number: 7986426
    Abstract: A system and/or method enables a typical PC user to add electronic paper processing to their existing business process. The system and/or method extends the notion of copying from paper passing through a conventional copier, to a process that involves scanning paper from a first device and copying the image of that paper to a remotely-located second device. The system and/or method can optionally copy paper from a first device directly into a business application residing on a network or on the Internet, or visa versa. The system and/or method includes software that manages paper so that it can be electronically and seamlessly copied in and out of devices and business applications without needing to modify the devices or applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Renaissance Group IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Laurence C. Klein
  • Patent number: 7477410
    Abstract: A computer data management system is capable of transmitting one or more of an electronic image, electronic graphics and electronic document to external destinations including one or more of external devices and applications. The computer data management system includes at least one memory storing a plurality of interface protocols for interfacing and communicating and at least one processor. The processor is responsively connectable to the memory, and implements the interface protocols as a software application for interfacing and communicating with the plurality of external destinations, including external devices and applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Inventor: Laurence C. Klein
  • Patent number: 6771381
    Abstract: The purpose of the Virtual Copier invention (“VC”) is to enable a typical PC user to add electronic paper processing to their existing business process. VC is an extension of the concept we understand as copying. In its simplest form it extends the notion of copying from a process that involves paper going through a conventional copier device, to a process that involves paper being scanned from a device at one location and copied to a device at another location. In its more sophisticated form, VC can copy paper from a device at one location directly into a business application residing on a network or on the Internet, or visa versa. The VC invention is software that manages paper so that it can be electronically and seamlessly copied in and out of devices and business applications (such as Microsoft Office, Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes) with an optional single-step Go operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Inventor: Laurence C. Klein
  • Patent number: 6185590
    Abstract: An image viewer process views at least one document image including an electronic document image, and performs viewing operations to the electronic document image. The process includes the step of selecting, by the user, one of a plurality of image viewing perspectives. Each of the plurality of image viewing perspectives provide the user the capability of viewing the document image in accordance with a different predefined user perspective. The process also includes the steps of selecting, by the user, using the image viewer process the document image to be viewed, and retrieving, by the image viewer process, the document image. The process also includes the step of displaying, by the image viewer process, the selected document image in accordance with an image viewing perspective selected by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignee: Imagination Software
    Inventor: Laurence C. Klein
  • Patent number: 6035295
    Abstract: A neural network based data comparison system compares data stored within a database against each other to determine duplicative, fraudulent, defective and/or irregular data. The system includes a database storing data therein, and a pattern database storing pattern data therein. The system further includes a data pattern build system, responsively connected to the database and to the pattern database. The data pattern build system retrieves the data from the database and generates the pattern data formatted in accordance a predetermined patten. The predetermined pattern includes an array having array locations corresponding to each character in a defined character set. The data pattern build system increments a value in each of the array locations responsive to the number of occurrences of each character in the data and stores the array as the pattern data in the pattern database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Inventor: Laurence C. Klein
  • Patent number: 5845285
    Abstract: A neural network based data comparison system compares data stored within a database against each other to determine duplicative, fraudulent, defective and/or irregular data. The system includes a database storing data therein, and a pattern database storing pattern data therein. The system further includes a data pattern build system, responsively connected to the database and to the pattern database. The data pattern build system retrieves the data from the database and generates the pattern data formatted in accordance a predetermined patten. The predetermined pattern includes an array having array locations corresponding to each character in a defined character set. The data pattern build system increments a value in each of the array locations responsive to the number of occurrences of each character in the data and stores the array as the pattern data in the pattern database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1998
    Inventor: Laurence C. Klein
  • Patent number: 5404509
    Abstract: A computer-based method and apparatus for auditing electronic information, most often a database. A database auditor of the present invention conducts an audit as specified by a user-defined project. The project indicates focus groups, filters, skews and whether to count blank entries. The database auditor selects a sample representative of the view of the database described by the project. It presents the sample to the user in a standardized set of reports or on-line forms. The user then determines the number errors contained in the sample and communicates these data to the database auditor. The database auditor uses the error data to calculate the accuracy of the database, as well as the accuracies of the individual fields and focus groups, and to presents these accuracies to the user. Finally, the database auditor charts areas of accuracy and inaccuracy by field and focus group and indicates which inaccuracies are due to process errors and which are due to user errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1995
    Inventor: Laurence C. Klein