Patent ID: 11916591
Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
accessing, by a first computer system via a first communication network, data for transmission to a second computer system, wherein the data comprises textual information;
generating, by the first computer system, an optical representation of the data, wherein the optical representation of the data comprises one or more images depicting the textual information;
presenting, by the first computer system using a plurality of optical writers, the optical representation of the data to the second computer system via a free space communications link;
receiving, by the second computer system using a plurality of optical readers, the optical representation of the data from the first computer system via the free space communications link, wherein each of the optical readers receives the optical representation of the data from a different respective one of the optical writers;
determining, by the second computer system, the data based on the optical representation of the data, wherein at least a portion of the data is determined based on optical character recognition of the one or more images; and
transmitting, by the second computer system, the data to one or more additional computer systems via a second communications network.