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

Claim 18:
19. A system comprising:
a first computer system comprising a plurality of optical writers; and
a second computer system comprising a plurality of optical readers,
wherein the first computer system is configured to:
access, via a first communication network, data for transmission to the second computer system, wherein the data comprises textual information,
generate an optical representation of the data, wherein the optical representation of the data comprises one or more images depicting the textual information, and
present, using the plural of optical writers, the optical representation of the data to the second computer system via a free space communications link, and wherein the second computer system is configured to:
receive, using the 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,
determine 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
transmit the data to one or more additional computer systems via a second communications network.