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

Claim 11:
12. A method for managing access to a physical area, the method comprising:
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;
generating encoded data that encodes the code data;
causing the encoded data to be sent, over a computer network, to a mobile device, or an account, of a user that is associated with the record;
wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.