Patent ID: 8730504

Claim:
A system comprising: a service device implemented in a cloud; a document device separate from the service device, wherein the document device is also implemented in the cloud; a scanner configured to scan a document; and a user device comprising a controller configured to generate a first request, wherein the first request (i) includes a file name, and (ii) requests scanning of the document via the scanner using services provided by the cloud, a transmitter configured to, prior to the scanner scanning the document, transmit the first request from the user device to the service device, wherein the scanner is configured to, based on the first request, (i) scan the document to generate an image file, wherein the image file includes an image of the document, and (ii) assign the file name to the image file, and the transmitter is configured to poll the service device to obtain a status update for the first request, and a receiver configured to, based on the first request received at the service device and subsequent to the scanner scanning the document, receive the status update from the service device, wherein the status update indicates the scanning of the document is completed, wherein the transmitter is configured to transmit a second request to the document device, and wherein the second request requests the image file by the file name, and receive the image file transmitted from the document device to the user device without prior transmission of the image file from the document device to the service device.