DEVICE FOR ACTUATING A PORTABLE TERMINAL

• US 20140001255A1
• Filed: 01/05/2011
• Published: 01/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Connecthings Co.
• Original Assignee: Laetitia Gazel Anthoine
• Inventors: Gazel Anthoine, Laetitia
• Granted Patent: US 9,022,283 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/375
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/01 Details
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location

Abstract

A device enabling a user to actuate a portable terminal using a set of tags having a unique identifier, the device including the set of tags having a unique identifier and the portable terminal for the user, the terminal being capable of sequentially reading unique identifiers among the set of tags. The device further includes a device for identifying the terminal and for actuating the identified terminal depending on a sequence of the unique identifiers read by the terminal.

Claims

1. Device enabling a user to actuate a portable terminal using a set of tags having a unique identifier, the device comprising:

a set of tags having a unique identifier, a terminal that can be carried by a user, the terminal capable of sequentially reading, among the set of tags, unique identifiers and a database hosted on a server computer remote from said terminal, linked with the terminal, capable of identifying the terminal and actuating the identified terminal, as a function of a sequence over time of the movements of the user represented by the history of the separate tags read by a same terminal over time or the number of times that a same terminal has read a same tag, said history being sent to the remote server computer and being associated to a number or an identifier of the terminal.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein said set of tags is a set constituted of a single tag and wherein said sequence of unique identifiers consists of a repetition of the unique identifier of said single tag.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein said sequence of unique identifiers consists of a sequencing of the unique identifiers of at least two tags.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein the database is capable of actuating the identified terminal by sending commands to said terminal.

5. The device according to claim 1, wherein the database is capable of actuating the identified terminal by sending data to said terminal.

6. The device according to claim 4, wherein said commands are a command to inhibit or authorise a sound signal of the terminal.

7. The device according to claim 5, wherein said data are sent to an internet browser of the terminal.

8. Method for implementing the device according to claim 1, including reading in sequence, among the set of tags, unique identifiers, by the terminal, sending in sequence, to the database, the unique identifiers read, receiving in sequence, in the database, the unique identifiers sent, identifying the terminal, in the database, and actuating the identified terminal, by the database, as a function or the sequence of unique identifiers received.

9. A method comprising creating a personalised route with the method of claim 8, for a visitor using said portable terminal, in a place of visit equipped with stations provided with tags having a unique identifier of said set, the visitor wishing to reach once each station in any order, in which the database sends to the terminal, at the reading of a tag of any station of the place of visit, a list of the stations of said place, without mentioning the stations of which the tags have already been read, in sequence, by the terminal used by the visitor.

10. A device enabling a user to actuate a portable terminal using a set of tags having a unique identifier, the terminal to be carried by a user, the device comprising:

a set of tags having a unique identifier, the terminal capable of sequentially reading, among the set of tags, unique identifiers, and a database hosted on a server computer remote from said terminal, linked with the terminal, capable of identifying the terminal and actuating the identified terminal, as a function of a sequence over time of the movements of the user represented by the history of the separate tags read by a same terminal over time or the number of times that a same terminal has read a same tag, said history being sent to the remote server computer and being associated to a number or an identifier of the terminal.