Patent ID: 7735731
Filing Date: 2010-06-15
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A Web-enabled mobile image capturing and processing (MICAP) cell-phone for use in an Internet-based shipping, tracking and delivery network, said Web-based MICAP cell-phone comprising: a hand-supportable housing; a digital image capture and processing engine, disposed in said hand-supportable housing, for (i) capturing and processing digital images of shipping documents at a point of shipment pickup, and (ii) recognizing bar-coded shipment tracking numbers graphically represented in said digital images; a display panel, intergrated with said hand-supportable housing, for displaying said digital images; a microprocessor, disposed in said hand-supportable housing, along with program memory and non-volatile memory; an RF transceiver circuit disposed in said hand-supportable housing, along with an RF antenna coupled to said RF transceiver circuit supporting wireless data communication protocols on said Internet-based shipping, tracking and delivery network; a rechargeable battery disposed in said hand-supportable housing for providing electrical power to components with said Web-enabled MICAP cell-phone; wherein said microprocessor and said program memory provides a computing platform supporting an operating system (OS) and one or more application programs, including a Web browser program, and a client application program; and wherein said one or more application programs support automatic reading of bar-coded shipment tracking numbers graphically represented in said digital images, and automatic generation of digital image files (i) named or titled using said bar-coded shipment tracking numbers, and (ii) having headers that are encoded with said bar-coded shipment tracking numbers.