System and method for processing wireless data

• US 20030229678A1
• Filed: 03/31/2003
• Published: 12/11/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Inventec Tomorrow Work Studio Corporation Taiwan
• Original Assignee: Inventec Tomorrow Work Studio Corporation Taiwan
• Inventors: Wen, Shih-Li, Liu, Hsiang-Min, Wen, Say-Yee, Hu, I-Ping
• Application Number:
  US10/401,767
• Publication Number:
  US 20030229678A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3224 Transactions dependent on location of M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0081 the reader being a portable scanner or data reader G07G1/009 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A system and a method for processing wireless data are provided for use with products designated by bar codes. A customer can input a bar code of a product to an information center through telecommunication via an input interface of a portable electronic device such as cellular phone or personal digital assistant (PDA). Then, the information center transmits product information corresponding to the inputted bar code to a display interface e.g. screen of the portable electronic device, such that the customer can obtain the product information. This is therefore beneficially timesaving for allowing the customer to promptly acquire desirable information on products.

Claims

1. A system for processing wireless data, comprising:

a source of bar code for identifying a product;

a wireless transmission portable electronic device having a display interface and a scanning module, wherein the scanning module scans and encodes the bar code into a wireless signal;

a telecommunication service end for receiving the wireless signal from the scanning module and decoding the wireless signal into the bar code that is transmitted via a network system; and

an information center having a product information database stored with bar codes of products and product information corresponding to the bar codes, wherein the information center obtains product information from the product information database corresponding to the bar code being transmitted from the telecommunication service end to the information center, and forwards the obtained product information via the network system to the telecommunication service end and then to the wireless transmission portable electronic device where the product information is displayed on the display interface and accessible for users.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the telecommunication service end comprises:

a cell for receiving and processing the wireless signal from the scanning module and for transmitting the processed wireless signal;

a wireless reception/transmission process module for receiving the wireless signal from the cell and decoding the wireless signal into the bar code and for transmitting the bar code; and

a communication interface for receiving and processing the bar code from the wireless reception/transmission process module and for transmitting the processed bar code to the network system that forwards the bar code to the information center.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the information center comprises:

a communication interface for receiving the bar code from the network system; and

a web server having a product information search module and the product information database, wherein the product information search module receives the bar code from the communication interface and obtains the corresponding product information from the product information database to transmit the obtained product information to the telecommunication service end.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the portable electronic device is a mobile phone.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the portable electronic device is a personal digital assistant (PDA).

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the telecommunication service end is a telecommunication company.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the information center is selected from the group consisting of Internet service provider (ISP), telecommunication service provider, and commercial firm.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the telecommunication service end further comprises a mobile positioning module for locating the wireless transmission portable electronic device according to the wireless signal emitted from the portable electronic device.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the information center further comprises an address searching module and a product address database, whereby the information center receives the location of the portable electronic device from the telecommunication service end, and the address searching module searches related information of product sale addresses from the product address database relatively closer to the location of the portable electronic device and transmits the searched address information to the portable electronic device where the searched information is displayed on the display interface.

10. A method for processing wireless data, comprising the steps of:

establishing a product information database stored with at least product information and bar codes of products corresponding to the product information;

scanning a bar code via a scanning module of a wireless transmission portable electronic device and transmitting a wireless signal encoded from the bar code via the portable electronic device; and

receiving the wireless signal via a telecommunication service end and decoding the wireless signal into the bar code that is transmitted to an information center where product information is searched from the product information database corresponding to the bar code and the searched product information is transmitted to an output interface of the portable electronic device.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the step of establishing the product information database comprises the procedures of:

establishing an online connection from an information builder to a server of the information center;

inputting the product information via the information builder to the server of the information center to build the product information database; and

generating a set of bar codes corresponding to the product information and transmitting the bar codes to the information builder via the server of the information center.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein a wireless reception/transmission process module of the telecommunication service end receives the wireless signal and decodes the wireless signal into the bar code that is transmitted via a communication interface to the server of the information center having the product information database.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein a product information search module of the server of the information center searches the corresponding product information from the product information database when the bar code is received by the server of the information center.