Mobile web

• US 20030061308A1
• Filed: 02/26/2001
• Published: 03/27/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/1996
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nomadix, Inc. (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Joel E. Short, Leonard Kleinrock
• Inventors: Kleinrock, Leonard, Short, Joel E.
• Granted Patent: US 7,216,152 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/218
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 11/00 Arrangements, systems or apparatus for checking, e.g. the occurrence of a condition, not provided for elsewhere
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/20 involving the use of a pass

Abstract

A system and method of interfacing includes a mobile web information exchange device. Information about a user is recorded on a mobile web recording medium. Information terminals are provided at locations which receive the mobile web recording medium. Information is stored on the Internet or terminals relating to the specific location. The mobile web recording medium, such as any media storage device, is connected to the terminals. A control is provided, either on the storage media or in the terminals for the interaction of the mobile web recording medium with the terminals. Thus information is exchanged by supplying the information about the user to the terminal and by recording selective information data from the terminal and/or Internet to the mobile web recording medium. Such exchange may be effected by inputting commands with a mouse or keyboard or touch screen connected to the terminals. The media storage device is then removed from the terminal and used at as many terminals as desired. The mobile web communicates information between workstations and users. Workstations may include open houses, learning centers, conventions/shows, gyms, and the like, and users may respectively be realtors, students, attendees, exercisers, and the like.

Claims

1. A mobile web ID system comprising a portable identification memory device, user'"'"'s identification data stored in the memory device, plural storage reader-writers at exhibitor locations linked to or having a memory storage for storing exhibitor information about the exhibitors, and memory device slots in the reader-writers for temporarily receiving the portable memory devices, reading heads adjacent the slots for reading the identification data into the storage, and writing heads adjacent to the slots for writing stored Mobile Web information into the portable identification memory device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the reader-writer is a computer.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the memory storage is a computer.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the memory storage is World Wide Web.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the portable identification memory device is a 3.5″

floppy disk.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the portable identification memory device is a PCMCIA or PC Card.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the portable identification memory device is a smart card.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the portable identification memory device is a Flash card.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the portable identification memory device is a ZipDisk.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the portable identification memory device is a Floptical disk.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the portable identification device is a swipe card.

12. A convention information exchange system comprising an exhibitors station having a programmable computer with a program for automatically receiving and storing information from a user'"'"'s identification data storage medium and for writing on that data storage medium information about the exhibitor and its products from a hard disk storage in the computer or from World Wide Web under control of the user according to the user'"'"'s selection of menus on a screen on the computer with a keyboard, touch screen or mouse connected to the computer.

13. The system of claim 12, further comprising user'"'"'s identifying data on the data storage medium.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the data storage medium is a 3.5″

floppy diskette.

15. An interface system comprising a user carried device with identification data including the user'"'"'s name, title, organization and addresses, a data storage device provided at plural locations each having a computer with a memory for storing and providing information data, a screen for displaying menus, a keyboard, a touch screen, or a mouse for entering selections from the menu, a control stored either on the user carried device or on the data storage device, a slot for receiving the user carried device and an interface for receiving and writing the identification data from the user carried device into the memory under direction of the control and for providing the exhibitor information data from the memory to the user carried device under direction of the control and a user'"'"'s inputs on the keyboard, the touch screen or the mouse.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the user carried device is a 3.5″

floppy diskette.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the user carried device is a swipe card.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the user carried device includes a complementary user'"'"'s interface and the exhibitor station computer interface comprises an interface for communicating data with the user'"'"'s complementary interface by radio, infrared or wire.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein the control provides the exhibitor with a complete record of identification of users who visited the exhibitors booth.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the control provides a complete record of users'"'"' responses to menus displayed on the exhibitors computer screens.

21. The system of claim 15, wherein the control provides a complete record of users who visited an exhibitors booth.

22. The system of claim 15, wherein the data storage device is provided at exhibitor booths at a show or convention.

23. The system of claim 15, wherein the data storage device is provided at manufacturing plants, the information data comprises information about machines in the plants, and wherein the user is an employee exchanging information about the machines via the user carried device.

24. The system of claim 15, wherein the data storage device is provided at learning stations, and wherein the user is a student exchanging information with the learning stations via the user carried device.

25. The system of claim 15, wherein the data storage device is provided at home sales sites, and wherein the user is a realtor exchanging information with the sites via the user carried device.

26. The system of claim 15, wherein the data storage device is provided at gyms, and wherein the user is an exerciser exchanging information with equipment in the gyms via the user carried device.

27. A method of information exchange comprising providing a mobile web recording medium to a user, recording information about the user on the mobile web recording medium, providing information terminals at locations for receiving the mobile web recording medium, storing information data on the terminals, communicating the mobile web recording medium with the terminals, providing a control for enabling the communicating of the mobile web recording medium with the terminals, exchanging information by supplying the information about the user to the terminal and by recording selective information data from the terminal to the mobile web recording medium by providing commands by inputting means, terminating communication of the mobile web recording medium with the terminal, and if desired repeating the above steps at a different terminal.

28. The method of claim 27, wherein the terminals are computers.

29. The method of claim 27, wherein the providing the commands by inputting means is by using a mouse attached to the terminals.

30. The method of claim 27, wherein the providing the commands by inputting means is by using a keyboard attached to the terminals.

31. The method of claim 27, wherein the mobile web recording medium is a floppy disk.

32. The method of claim 27, wherein the control is provided on the mobile web recording medium, and wherein the control is a batch of executable programs.

33. The method of claim 27, wherein the control is provided in the terminals, and wherein the control is an executable program.

34. The method of claim 27, wherein providing the commands by inputting means is by using a touch screen attached to the terminals.