Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20080177799
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Larry Breen (20 days ago)
Actually, I think this patent has some novelty over the cited prior art. I believe this patent's novelty is in the use of the OCR, rather than in the use of the hash. As Brian says using a hash as a digital "fingerprint" of a file is in no way novel, but using a hash of electonic text to test similarity against an image of a print of that text is novel. However, unless they can show that the OCR process does not introduce noise (print smudges, crinkles) etc, although it is novel, it is not useful. If they have a perfect OCR which handles real world issues, then that would be much more patentable in my view than hashing a poor OCR.Brian Johnson (2 months ago)
Is this not exactly like United States Patent 20080091954 by Morris, Daniel R. (Virginia Beach, VA, US)? Any feedback from the community on this one would be interesting being both of these ideas seem pretty common knowledge and widely used to verify data already. Hashing data is nothing new and there seems to be several companies that already do this.Steven Pearson (3 months ago)
Strange that no inventor names are shown here. According to http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2008/0177799.html the inventor is:
Wilson, Kelce S. (Murphy, TX, US)PEER TO PATENT ACTIVITY
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