Information Access Device And Network

• US 20090259663A1
• Filed: 03/25/2009
• Published: 10/15/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Colaco, Andrea, Ramani, Srinivasan, Kuchibhotla, Anjaneyulu Seetha Rama, Ranganathan, Badri Narayanan, Godavari, Srinivasu
• Granted Patent: US 8,442,991 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]

Abstract

An information access device is disclosed comprising an interface for connecting the information access device to a network; a further interface for providing the information access device with a string of information request indicators; an interpretation layer for extracting an information source from the string and for generating an instruction for triggering a different application of the device to retrieve the information from the information source; and a processor for executing the generated instruction.

Claims

1. An information access device, comprising:

an interface for connecting the information access device to a network;

a further interface for providing the information access device with a string of information request indicators;

an interpretation layer for extracting an information source from the string and for generating an instruction for triggering a different application of the device to retrieve the information from the information source; and

a processor for executing the generated instruction.

2. An information access device according to claim 1, wherein the interpretation layer comprises:

a first database for storing at least one of a user profile and information access device location information;

a second database for storing a plurality of instructions; and

a query algorithm for receiving said string and retrieving at least one instruction from the second database based on said string and the at least one of the user profile and information access device location information.

3. An information access device according to claim 1, further comprising a display for displaying information, wherein the processor is further arranged to provide the display with the execution result.

4. An information access device according to claim 3, wherein the interpretation layer is arranged to display a plurality of potential information sources to a user, and is further arranged to generate the instruction in response to the user selecting an information source.

5. An information access device according to claim 1, wherein the string comprises a uniform resource locator.

6. An information access device according to claim 1, wherein the string comprises a set of Internet search keywords.

7. An information access device according to claim 1, further comprising a scanner, wherein the string comprises a scanning instruction indicator.

8. An information access device according to claim 1, further comprising a printer, wherein the string comprises a printing instruction indicator, and wherein the processor is arranged to instruct the printer to print the retrieved information.

9. An information access device according to claim 1, wherein the interface for connecting the information access device to a network comprises an interface for connecting to an external device providing network access.

10. An information access device according to claim 1, wherein the information access device is a modular device comprising:

a first module implementing the interpretation layer for extracting an information source from the string and for generating an instruction for retrieving the information from the information source; and

the processor for executing the generated instruction; and

a second module implementing the interface for connecting the information access device to a network and the further interface for providing the information access device with a string of information request indicators.

11. An information access device according to claim 10, which comprises a display for displaying the retrieved information.

12. An information access device according to claim 10, wherein the interface module is configured to access a network server, wherein the network server is arranged to impose a pay charge on the information retrieval to the user of the second module.

13. An information access device according to claim 1, further comprising user credit identification means, wherein access to the device is provided in response to user credit identification that enables charging the user.

14. An information access device according to claim 1, wherein the further interface is further arranged to provide the information access device with user authentication information prior to providing the information access device with the string.

15. An information access device according to claim 14, wherein the accessible information is defined by the user identification information.

16. An information access device according to claim 14, wherein the interpretation layer is adapted in response to the user identification information.

17. An information access device according to claim 16, wherein the adaptation comprises the generation of an instruction for retrieving the information from an information source selected on the basis of the user identification information.

18. An information access device according to claim 2, wherein the user profile comprises user credit source information.

19. An information access device comprising:

an interface for connecting the information access device to a network;

a further interface for providing the information access device with a string of information request indicators; and

an interpretation layer for extracting an information source from the string and for generating an instruction for retrieving the information from the information source;

the device further being arranged to forward said instruction to a network server, said server comprising a processor for executing the generated instruction.

20. A network comprising:

an information source located on a server; and

an information access device comprising;

an interface connecting the information access device to the network;

a further interface for providing the information access device with a string of information request indicators;

an interpretation layer for extracting an information source from the string and for generating an instruction for retrieving the information from the information source; and

a processor for executing the generated instruction.

21. A computer program product arranged to, when being executed on a computer, extract an information source from a string of information request indicators, and to generate an instruction for retrieving the information from the information source.