Patent Document ID: 8688744
Application ID: 12207449

Base Claim:
1. A method for scanning and importing documents into a document management system, comprising: receiving a first document for entry into the document management system; determining the first document provides first sufficient information for the first document to be imported into the document management system; associating a first identifier with the first document, the first identifier providing importing information to the document management system, wherein the first identifier is selected based on the first sufficient information; receiving a second document for entry into the document management system; determining the second document provides insufficient information for the second document to be imported into the document management system; associating a second identifier with the second document, the second identifier providing recipient information to the document management system, wherein the second identifier is selected from a plurality of different recipients based on the insufficient information; scanning the first identifier, the first document, the second identifier, and the second document; importing the first document into the document management system based on the first identifier; and forwarding the second document to a recipient based on the second identifier, wherein the second document is not imported into the document management system until the recipient provides second sufficient information for the second document to be imported into the document management system.

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Claim 5:
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first sufficient information includes at least one of a client number and a client name.