Patent ID: 9485203
Filing Date: 2016-11-01
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. An improved method for attaching a scanned document to an email reply with a client device comprising a mobile communications device, said method comprising: associating a scan-to-email attachment module with a mobile communications device comprising a client device in a client-server network that includes at least one server, said scan-to-email attachment module residing in a memory of said client device, said client device having an email client that is operably connected to said scan-to-email attachment module and which also resides in said memory of said client device, said scan-to-email attachment module including a plurality of contact addresses, wherein said scan-to-email attachment module is integratable with a number of different mobile platforms without requiring any changes to said email client employed on said mobile communications device; adding a contact address among said plurality of contact addresses to a reply-to-email as an additional address utilizing said mobile communications device so that said scanned document is capable of being sent as an attachment to an email address listed in said reply-to email as facilitated by said scan-to-email attachment module; polling said at least one server via said scan-to-email attachment module after said adding said contact address among said plurality of contact addresses to said reply-to-email as an additional address, wherein said at least one server comprises a server that monitors said contact address after adding said contact address to said reply-to-email as an additional address; initiating a scan request to a scanner for said scanned document, if an email is received at said contact address monitored by said server and after polling said server; and transmitting said scanned document as an attachment to said email address listed in said reply-to-email via said email client operably connected to said scan-to-email attachment module on said mobile communications device.