COMPUTER READABLE HANG TAG AND PRODUCT
First Claim
1. An article of manufacture, comprising a product, and a hang tag that provides information regarding the product, the hang tag comprising a computer readable medium that stores instructions executable by a computing device, and a tether that secures the computer readable medium to the product.
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Abstract
A user-computer-readable medium provides all or part of a product labeling system for engaging purchasers. Executables, data, or both are recorded in the medium embodied in a tag or other product labeling structure, in order to deliver to a consumer or purchaser engaging presentations of products, information, or registration templates. As a result, purchasers may receive launchers, browsers, viewers, e-mail systems, facsimile centers, players, or interface brokers for the foregoing, if organically installed already on a workstation of a purchaser. Software may provide catalog presentations, user registration templates, communications, linkers, or engines, and the like. Operation modules and profile builders may provide information over ready links implemented by software on the medium. In certain embodiments, entertainment, games, skill tests, and the like, recorded in the medium as a tag or label may execute to engage a purchaser and provide purchaser profiling information, product purchasing information, and the like to a vendor, while providing additional product information, warranty registrations, applications, entertainment, or the like, to a purchaser.
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24 Claims
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1. An article of manufacture, comprising
a product, and a hang tag that provides information regarding the product, the hang tag comprising a computer readable medium that stores instructions executable by a computing device, and a tether that secures the computer readable medium to the product.
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16. An computer readable hang tag for a product, comprising
a computer readable medium having at least one penetration through which a tether secures the computer readable medium to the product, the computer readable medium storing at least one of product facts, source facts, new product facts, service facts, a data gathering interface, and a network identifier corresponding to a location of additional information.
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20. An computer readable hang tag for a product, comprising
a computer readable medium that stores instructions executable by a computing device, packaging that holds the computer readable medium, the packaging comprising a penetration, and a tether to extend through the penetration and secure the packaging to the product.
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