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

Claim 19:
20. One or more non-transitory computer readable media storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
causing a first computer system to access, via a first communication network, data for transmission to a second computer system, wherein the data comprises textual information;
causing the first computer system to generate an optical representation of the data, wherein the optical representation of the data comprises one or more images depicting the textual information;
causing the first computer system to present, using a plurality of optical writers, the optical representation of the data to the second computer system via a free space communications link;
causing the second computer system to receive, 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;
causing the second computer system to 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
causing the second computer system to transmit the data to one or more additional computer systems via a second communications network.