Patent ID: 6592629
Filing Date: 2003-07-15
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04N

Abstract:
A document image storage system comprising:a bus; a multifunction machine, coupled to the bus, including a control to receive a plurality of electronic document images via the bus, each of the plurality of electronic document images having an origination identifier indicating from which device a document was transmitted and a destination identifier indicating the multifunction machine is the destination of the document, the control to monitor the bus for the document being transferred thereon for the destination identifier indicating the address of the document image storage system; and a peripheral device, coupled to the bus, having: scanning engine to receive at least one of the plurality of documents to produce the electronic document image data; a printing engine to produce a hardcopy of said electronic image data; and an image data tap to transmit the electronic document image data to the multifunction machine to perform unconscious capture archiving, wherein responsive to receiving at least one of a plurality of documents, the scanning engine is operable to perform a scanning operation on the document to form the electronic document image data, with the image data tap being operable to relay the image data to the multifunction machine, and the printing engine prints a hardcopy document based on the electronic document image data, wherein the scanning engine, printing engine and image data tap function without input from a user to capture electronic document image data of each and every document produced by the peripheral device.