System and method for accessing data using a wireless device

• US 20070290038A1
• Filed: 06/19/2006
• Published: 12/20/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc. (Zebra Technologies Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc. (Zebra Technologies Corporation)
• Inventors: Woodcock, Katrika, Morley-Smith, James Roger, Schlieffers, Jorg
• Application Number:
  US11/455,538
• Publication Number:
  US 20070290038A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/383
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/02 Hierarchically pre-organised networks, e.g. paging networks, cellular networks, WLAN [Wireless Local Area Network] or WLL [Wireless Local Loop]

Abstract

Described is a system and method for accessing data using a wireless device. The system comprises a wireless device, a database and a computing device. The wireless device obtains product data from a product display. The product data corresponds to a product represented on the product display and includes service data corresponding to a predefined service related to the product. The database stores product-related data. The computing device is communicatively coupled to the wireless device and the database. The wireless device transmits a service request including the service data and the product data to the computing device. The computing device retrieves the product-related data as a function of the product data and the service data and transmits the product-related data to the wireless device.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a wireless device obtaining product data from a product display, the product data corresponding to a product represented on the product display and including service data corresponding to a predefined service related to the product;

a database storing product-related data; and

a computing device communicatively coupled to the wireless device and the database,

wherein the wireless device transmits a service request including the service data and the product data to the computing device, and

wherein the computing device retrieves the product-related data as a function of the product data and the service data and transmits the product-related data to the wireless device.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the wireless device includes at least one of a laser-based scanner, an imager-based scanner, an RFID reader, a mobile phone, a PDA and a handheld computer.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the product display is one of a display screen and a poster.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the product data is one of a bar code and an RFID tag.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the service data is a service identifier corresponding to one of the following predefined services:

(i) obtaining nutritional information about the product, (ii) obtaining ingredient information about at least one ingredient of the product, (iii) printing a coupon for the product, (iv) adding the product to an electronic shopping list and (v) obtaining a recipe for the product.

6. The system according to claim 5, wherein the product-related data is at least one of a price, the nutritional information, the ingredient information, the coupon and the recipe.

7. The system according to claim 5, wherein the computing device maintains the electronic shopping list that corresponds to the wireless device.

8. The system according to claim 5, wherein, upon receipt of the product-related data, the wireless device one of (i) displays the product-related data on a display screen thereof and (ii) prints the product-related data on a printer coupled thereto.

9. A method, comprising:

obtaining product data from a product display, the product data corresponding to a product represented on the product display and including service data corresponding to a predefined service related to the product;

transmitting a service request including the product data and the service data to a computing device; and

upon receipt of a service response, displaying product-related data, wherein the service response is generated by the computing device in response to the service request and includes the product-related data corresponding to the product data and the service data.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the product display is one of a display screen and a poster.

11. The method according to claim 9, wherein the obtaining step includes one of the following substeps:

scanning a bar code on the product display; and

reading an RFID tag on the product display.

12. The method according to claim 9, wherein the service data is a service identifier corresponding to one of the following predefined services:

(i) obtaining nutritional information about the product, (ii) obtaining ingredient information about at least one ingredient of the product, (iii) printing a coupon for the product, (iv) adding the product to an electronic shopping list and (v) obtaining a recipe for the product.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the product-related data is at least one of a price, the nutritional information, the ingredient information, the coupon and the recipe.

14. The method according to claim 9, further comprising:

adding the product to an electronic shopping list.

15. The method according to claim 9, further comprising:

printing the product-related data on a printer.

16. A device, comprising:

a data capture arrangement obtaining product data from a product display, the product data corresponding to a product represented on the product display and including service data corresponding to a predefined service related to the product;

a wireless communications arrangement transmitting a service request including the product data and the service data to a computing device, the wireless communications arrangement receiving a service response including product-related data; and

a display screen displaying the product-related data,

wherein the service response is generated by the computing device in response to the service request and includes the product-related data corresponding to the product data and the service data.

17. The device according to claim 16, wherein the data capture arrangement includes at least one of a laser-based scanner, an imager-based scanner and an RFID reader.

18. The device according to claim 16, wherein the service data is a service identifier corresponding to one of the following predefined services:

(i) obtaining nutritional information about the product, (ii) obtaining ingredient information about at least one ingredient of the product, (iii) printing a coupon for the product, (iv) adding the product to an electronic shopping list and (v) obtaining a recipe for the product.

19. The device according to claim 16, wherein the product-related data is at least one of a price, the nutritional information, the ingredient information and the coupon.

20. The device according to claim 16, further comprising:

a printer, wherein, when the product-related data includes a coupon for the product, the printer prints the coupon.

21. A device, comprising:

a data capture means for obtaining product data from a product display, the product data corresponding to a product represented on the product display and including service data corresponding to a predefined service related to the product;

a wireless communications means for transmitting a service request including the product data and the service data to a computing means, the wireless communications means receiving a service response including product-related data; and

a display means for displaying the product-related data,

wherein the service response is generated by the computing means in response to the service request and includes the product-related data corresponding to the product data and the service data.