Methods and apparatuses for publication of unconsciously captured documents

摘要

Methods and apparatuses for searching unconsciously captured documents and publishing the results are disclosed. Documents processed by one or more networked devices are saved to a storage device coupled to the network. The documents can be searched to retrieve desired documents. In one embodiment, the desired documents are published in response to a single user action, for example, a mouse click or a spoken command. The documents can be published, for example, on the World Wide Web via a Web server or other devices. The documents can also be published to other networks, distributed via electronic mail, or published in any other manner.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
performing a search on a set of unconsciously captured documents in a storage in response to a search request received from a first user, wherein each of the unconsciously captured documents was automatically captured and transmitted to the storage over a network by a network appliance device when a second device processed a corresponding original document, the unconsciously captured documents automatically captured and transmitted from the second device, wherein the network appliance device was configured to automatically generate a unique filename for each of the unconsciously captured documents, to establish a communication session with the storage over the network, and to transfer the unconsciously captured documents to the storage to be stored therein based on their respective unique filenames without user intervention, and wherein the unconsciously captured documents are represented by a directory of the storage having one metadata file and at least one data file; receiving from the first user a selection of one or more documents from the set of unconsciously captured documents listed as part of a search result; copying the one or more documents to a location of a designated server; and providing public access to the one or more documents from the location in response to one or more predetermined actions performed on an electronic system.