Patent Document ID: 8396586
Application ID: 12058370

Base Claim:
1. A method of processing documents, comprising: receiving a plurality of stacks in an input receptacle of a document processing device, each stack including a batch of documents and a separator card associated with the batch of documents; transporting via a transport mechanism the batches of documents, one document at a time, and the associated separator cards past one or more sensors of the document processing device; detecting characteristic information associated with each document, and determining whether a particular document meets or fails to meet at least one criterion; providing a signal indicative of a separator card being transported past the one or more sensors; directing to at least one first output receptacle each document that fails to meet the at least one criterion; directing to at least one second output receptacle each document that meets the at least one criterion; directing a separator card to the at least one second output receptacle if at least one document in the associated batch of documents meets the at least one criterion; and directing a separator card to at least one third output receptacle if all documents in the associated batch of documents fail to meet the at least one criterion.

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Claim 11:
11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the transporting further comprises positioning documents and associated separator cards directed to the at least one second output receptacle so as to be in the same order as received in the input receptacle.