System and method for accessing online content

• US 10,360,278 B2
• Filed: 04/25/2011
• Issued: 07/23/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo of America, Inc. (Nintendo Company Limited)
• Inventors: Smith, Darren C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chavez, Renee D
• Assistant Examiner(s): Duckworth, Jianmei F
• Application Number:
  US13/093,036
• Publication Number:
  US 20110307787A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,011 Days
• Field of Search: 715205-208, 715716, 715727-729
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links

Abstract

An example method of accessing a web page includes receiving audio output from speakers of electronic equipment; detecting a cue in the received audio output; determining a web address based on the detected cue; and connecting to a web page using the web address.

Claims

1. A method of accessing web pages using a portable device carried by a user, the method comprising:

detecting a plurality of cues using the portable device including a cue detector while the portable device is carried by the user, wherein each of the cues comprises a radio frequency identification (RFID) number;

storing, in a memory of the portable device, data indicative of the detected cues by updating cue information in the memory when each of the cues is detected;

determining, by the portable device, web addresses based on the stored data; and

connecting, by the portable device, to one or more web pages using the web addresses,

wherein each of the cues comprises an identifier,

wherein the storing includes storing a plurality of identifiers from the detected cues, and wherein the determining web addresses comprises;

subsequent to the storing, displaying information associated with each of the stored identifiers to a user;

selecting at least one of the stored identifiers in accordance with an input by the user; and

determining at least one of the web addresses based upon the selected at least one of the stored identifiers,

wherein the displaying information associated with each of the stored identifiers comprises;

ordering the plurality of identifiers in accordance with an amount of time the user was in proximity to each of the identifiers; and

displaying the information in accordance with the ordered plurality of identifiers.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein each of the cues is attached to a product, and wherein the displayed information comprises product information for each said product.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the displaying is on a display of the portable device.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the displaying is on a display of another device in communication with the portable device.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising generating an alert upon said detecting.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising enabling online purchasing products associated with one or more of the displayed identifiers.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein said detecting comprises detecting each of said detected cues for at least a specified time.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein each of the cues comprises a product type code and a unique product identifier.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein each of the cues comprises cue identifying information identifying the RFID number as a type of RFID information to be detected as a cue, and wherein the method further comprising determining whether the detected cue includes said cue identifying information.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the detecting is performed while the portable device is in a standby mode.

11. The method according to claim 1, further comprising causing web pages associated with the detected cues to be displayed in response to each of the cues being detected as the portable device is being carried.

12. The method according to claim 1, further comprising filtering the identifiers in accordance with a user interest profile to select identifiers for displaying.

13. The method according to claim 1, wherein the portable device is a game device.