Media identifying, tracking, and cataloging systems and methods

• US 20060278717A1
• Filed: 02/09/2006
• Published: 12/14/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/09/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Charles E. Boyer, Henning W. Vonklinggraeff
• Original Assignee: Charles E. Boyer, Henning W. Vonklinggraeff
• Inventors: Boyer, Charles E., VonKlinggraeff, Henning W.
• Application Number:
  US11/352,414
• Publication Number:
  US 20060278717A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/487
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 17/00 Methods or arrangements for effecting co-operative working between equipments covered by two or more of main groups G06K1/00 - G06K15/00, e.g. automatic card files incorporating conveying and reading operations

Abstract

An identification label that can be used to identify an individual media element within a media collection comprising a plurality of medial elements is provided. The identification label comprises a label surface having a two-dimensional symbol provided on the label surface and an attachment surface that can be used to attach the label to a media element of a media collection. The two-dimensional symbol comprises encoded information that can be used to identify the medial element within the media collection and may include additional information as desired. Also, a method of identifying an individual media element within a media collection is provided. The method comprises the steps of associating a predetermined media element of a media collection comprising a plurality of media elements with a two-dimensional symbol and displaying the two-dimensional symbol on a portion of the predetermined media element.

Claims

1. A method of identifying an individual media element within a media collection, the method comprising the steps of:

associating a predetermined media element of a media collection comprising a plurality of media elements with a two-dimensional symbol; and

displaying the two-dimensional symbol on a portion of the predetermined media element.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the predetermined media element comprises a book.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the two-dimensional symbol is provided on a spine portion of the book.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of displaying the two-dimensional symbol comprises providing the two-dimensional symbol on a label and attaching the label to the portion of the predetermined media element.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of associating the predetermined media element with a one-dimensional barcode wherein at least a portion of the information encoded in the one-dimensional barcode is encoded in the two-dimensional symbol.

6. An identification label that can be used to identify an individual media element within a media collection comprising a plurality of medial elements, the identification label comprising a label surface having a two-dimensional symbol provided on the label surface and an attachment surface that can be used to attach the label to a media element of a media collection, wherein the two-dimensional symbol comprises encoded information that can be used to identify the medial element within the media collection.

7. The identification label of claim 6, wherein the two-dimensional symbol comprises a Vericode symbol.

8. The identification label of claim 6, further comprising a one-dimensional barcode provided on the label surface, wherein at least a portion of the information encoded in the one-dimensional barcode is encoded in the two-dimensional symbol.

9. The identification label of claim 6, wherein the attachment surface comprises an adhesive.

10. The identification label of claim 6 in combination with a book, wherein the identification label is integrated with the book so that a first one-dimensional barcode is optically readable as positioned on the front cover of the book, a second one-dimensional barcode is optically readable as positioned on the rear cover of the book, and the two-dimensional symbol is optically readable as positioned on the spine of the book.