Patent ID: 11915191
Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A method for intelligent delivery, the method comprising:
in a scanner workstation comprising one or more processors and an image capture device coupled with the one or more processors:
receiving, in the one or more processors from the image capture device, a digital image scanned from an address-bearing face of a piece of mail,
determining whether the piece of mail corresponds to transactional mail based on at least one of: a logo included in the digital image, a barcode placed by a sender of the piece of mail included in the digital image, or addressee information indicating an addressee of the piece of mail extracted from the digital image, wherein the piece of mail is determined to be transactional mail if it is not addressed to any individual and wherein the piece of mail is determined to be correspondence mail if it is addressed to any individual, and
in response to determining that the piece of mail corresponds to transactional mail,
generating a metadata indicating a transaction mail indicator and a department code, and
controlling a mail processing controller, coupled with the scanner workstation, to process the piece of mail according to a workflow corresponding to the metadata, wherein, when the metadata includes a department code and a transaction mail indicator, the workflow is predetermined based upon the department code, and wherein, when the metadata indicates the piece of mail is correspondence mail by absence of a transaction mail indicator in the metadata, the workflow to process the individual piece of mail is determined based on the addressee.