Patent ID: 11935349
Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A system for managing access to a physical area, the system comprising:
one or more processors;
one or more storage media storing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause:
receiving a digital file from a mobile device that generated the digital file based on a physical document;
extracting first data from the digital file;
based on identification data within the first data, searching a database and identifying, in the database, a record associated with a user that matches the identification data;
associating the first data with the record;
after associating the first data with the record, generating code data comprising a unique identifier of a user that is associated with the record;
generating encoded data that encodes the code data; and
causing the encoded data to be sent, over a computer network, to a mobile device, or an account, of the user.