Image-based document processing system having a platform architecture

US5708810A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Unisys Corporation · US

Inventors

• Norman P. Kern · Birmingham, US
• Brian K. Forbes · Tecate Mission Road, US
• John G. Hemmann · Coldwater, US
• James D. Rogan · Marquette, US
• Morten Wiken · Plymouth, US
• Joseph M. Capo · Beverly Hills, US
• Howard Green · Carlsbad, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 9, 1991
• Grant date: Jan 13, 1998
• Expiry date: Dec 9, 2011

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q40/02
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An image-based document processing system comprised of a plurality of hardware components arranged as a platform for processing documents using document images. The system employs a layered software architecture comprised of application programs, system services and a plurality of native operating systems provided for particular ones of the hardware components. The system services are callable by the application programs to provide an interface between the application programs and the native operating systems during operation of the system.