SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCH CODE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

• US 20110055075A1
• Filed: 04/13/2010
• Published: 03/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/01/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: The TMS WAY Limited
• Original Assignee: The TMS WAY Limited
• Inventors: Saurat, Frederick Henry
• Application Number:
  US12/759,421
• Publication Number:
  US 20110055075A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/39
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• 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]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/10 specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

An information retrieval system using a search code is provided. Embodiments of the present invention may include a processor component configured to perform the operations of a system application, the system application configured to generate one or more data records, the system application further configured to generate multiple search codes and store the multiple search codes and the one or more data records in memory and associate each of the one or more data records with one or more of the multiple search codes, each of the one or more data records including instructions for the execution of a predetermined action. The predetermined action may be, for example, delivering content, sales, a marketing activity, a discount offering, an advertisement campaign, a transaction, an application to use, or any other type of offer that is generally directly at users of offline or online media.

Claims

1. An information retrieval system using a search code, the information retrieval system comprising:

a processor component configured to perform the operations of a system application, the system application configured to generate one or more data records, the system application further configured to generate multiple search codes and store the multiple search codes and the one or more data records in memory and associate each of the one or more data records with one or more of the multiple search codes, each of the one or more data records including instructions for the execution of a predetermined action.

2. The information retrieval system of claim 1, wherein each of the multiple search codes is a visible part of the search code, and wherein the processor component is further configured to receive data, wherein the data represents a non-visible part of each of the multiple search codes.

3. The information retrieval system of claim 2, wherein the non-visible data includes location information.

4. The information retrieval system of claim 2, wherein the non-visible data includes GPS positioning information.

5. The information retrieval system of claim 1, wherein the user notification is offline media including one of the one or more multiple search codes.

6. The information retrieval system of claim 1, wherein the user notification is online media including one of the multiple search codes.

7. The information retrieval system of claim 1, further comprising a device in operable communication with the system application, the device is configured to transmit a search code query including a predetermined one of the multiple search codes to the system application, and wherein the system application is further configured to receive the search code query and query the database using the predetermined one of the multiple search codes to locate a data record associated with the predetermined one of the multiple search codes, the system application further configured to execute the instructions for the execution of the predetermined action.

8. The information retrieval system of claim 7, wherein the system application is further configured to generate and update user profiles and store the user profiles on the database, wherein a corresponding user profile is updated in response to the search code query.

9. The information retrieval system of claim 7, wherein the device is in operable communication with the system application over the Internet, and the search code query is transmitted to the system application using a web browser.

10. The information retrieval system of claim 7, wherein the predetermined action is a transmission of a sales offer.

11. The information retrieval system of claim 7, wherein the predetermined action is a launching of an application.

12. The information retrieval system of claim 7, wherein the predetermined action is a transmission of launching sales offer.

13. The information retrieval system of claim 7, wherein the predetermined action is a transaction.

14. The information retrieval system of claim 13, wherein the transaction is a purchase, and wherein the transaction includes step of transferring currency units from a first user to a second user.

15. The information retrieval system of claim 8, wherein the predetermined action is a transaction, and wherein each of the user profiles includes a currency unit account configured to store and track the deposit and withdrawal of currency units from the currency unit account, and the transaction includes the step of withdrawing a predetermined amount of currency units from a first user profile and deposing the predetermined amount of currency units to a second user profile.

16. The information retrieval system of claim 1, wherein the data record includes qualification information and instruction information.

17. An information retrieval method comprising of:

generating one or more data records;

storing multiple search codes and the one or more data records in memory; and

associating each of the one or more data records with one or more of the multiple search codes, each of the one or more data records including instructions for the execution of a predetermined action.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

receiving a search code query, wherein the search code query includes one of the multiple search codes and data representing a non-visible part of the one of the multiple search codes;

querying the memory using the search code query to retrieve the data record associated with the one of multiple search codes; and

initiating an action according to instructions included in the data record.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising updating a user profile and storing the user profile on the database, wherein the user profile is updated in response to the search code query.

20. A computer-readable memory medium having computer-executable instructions for controlling a computer processor to retrieve information, comprising:

instructions for generating one or more data records;

instructions for storing multiple search codes and the one or more data records in memory; and

instructions for associating each of the one or more data records with one or more of the multiple search codes, each of the one or more data records including instructions for the execution of a predetermined action.

21. The computer-readable memory medium of claim 20, further comprising:

instructions for receiving a search code query, wherein the search code query includes one of the multiple search codes and data representing a non-visible part of the one of the multiple search codes;

instructions for querying the memory using the search code query to retrieve the data record associated with the one of the multiple search codes; and

instructions for initiating an action according to instructions included in the data record.

22. The computer-readable memory medium of claim 21, further comprising instructions for updating a user profiles and storing the user profile on the database, wherein the user profile is updated in response to the search code query.