Remote recognition processing system and method

摘要

A computerized method for intelligently distributing computer processing of mail piece scan images across a plurality of mail piece scan image processors. The method can include receiving a mail piece scan image from a mail piece scan image job requestor and selecting one of a plurality of scan mail piece scan image processors to process said mail piece scan image. The mail piece scan image can be transmitted to said one of a plurality of plurality of mail piece scan image processors and a mail piece scan image processing result can be received from said one of a plurality of plurality of mail piece scan image processors. Post-processing operations can be performed based on said mail piece scan image processing result. The mail piece scan image processing result can be transmitted to said mail piece scan image processing requestor.

主权项

1. A system for remote recognition processing of mail piece scan images captured by mail processing equipment housed in different geographically dispersed mail processing sites, the system comprising:
a plurality of mail piece scan image processors adapted to perform mail recognition processing; and a mail piece scan image job manager geographically remote from one or more of the plurality of mail piece scan image processors and coupled to each of the plurality of mail piece scan image processors; the mail piece scan image job manager being coupled to a plurality of mail processing equipment; and the mail piece scan image job manager being adapted to:
receive a mail piece scan image from a requesting mail processing equipment being one of the plurality of mail processing equipment, the mail piece scan image associated with a mail piece;select one of the plurality of mail piece scan image processors to process the mail piece scan image based on at least a type of mail processing equipment that captured the mail piece scan image; andtransmit the mail piece scan image to the selected one of the plurality of mail piece scan image processors, wherein the mail piece scan image processors are located in a plurality of mail processing sites substantially geographically distributed, the requesting mail processing equipment is located in a first one of the mail processing sites, and the selected mail piece scan image processor is located in a second one of the mail processing sites, the first and second mail processing sites being different.