Patent ID: 11919042
Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 7:
8. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions which, when processed by one or more processors, cause:
for each item of mail of a plurality of items of mail:
capturing a first digital image of said each item of mail using an image capture device;
capturing a second digital image of one or more contents of said each item of mail using the image capture device;
extracting, by an image processing device, information from one or more of the first digital image of said each item of mail or the second digital image of the one or more contents of said each item of mail, the extracted information comprising identifying data and characteristic data;
based, at least in part, on the characteristic data from one of the first or second digital images, determining a priority level for said each item of mail;

wherein a first set of items of mail in the plurality of items of mail have a first priority level of a plurality of priority levels;
wherein a second set of items of mail in the plurality of items of mail have a second priority level, of the plurality of priority levels, that is different than the first priority level;
causing displaying, on a client computing device, a graphical user interface for accessing (1) first data that indicates a number of items of mail in each priority level of a plurality of priority levels and (2) second data that indicates an amount of time to process sets of items of mail corresponding to each priority level of the plurality of priority levels.