USB AUTORUN DEVICE
First Claim
1. A method of enabling a loyalty card to connect to a loyalty card management or rewards web server, comprising the steps of:
- (a) a user inserting or connecting the loyalty card, including a USB autorun peripheral device, into a computing device;
(b) the USB autorun peripheral device sending to the computing device a sequence of data complying with a standard protocol;
(c) the sequence of data being processed at the computing device to automatically open a connection to the web server; and
(d) in which the sequence of data, without any prior input of a website address for the web server or login data for that website or prior input of unique data identifying the device at any earlier time by a user, automates the direct access, over the internet, to the web server.
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Abstract
A portable, application-specific USB autorun device, following connection to a computer terminal, automatically initialises or presents itself as a known type of device and then automatically sends to the terminal a sequence of data complying with a standard protocol, that sequence of data automatically causing content to be accessed or a task to be initiated. The device (i) includes a standardised USB module that includes a USB microcontroller, the standardised module being designed to be attached to or embedded in multiple types of different, application specific packages but (ii) excludes mass memory storage for applications or end-user data.
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20 Claims
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1. A method of enabling a loyalty card to connect to a loyalty card management or rewards web server, comprising the steps of:
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(a) a user inserting or connecting the loyalty card, including a USB autorun peripheral device, into a computing device; (b) the USB autorun peripheral device sending to the computing device a sequence of data complying with a standard protocol; (c) the sequence of data being processed at the computing device to automatically open a connection to the web server; and (d) in which the sequence of data, without any prior input of a website address for the web server or login data for that website or prior input of unique data identifying the device at any earlier time by a user, automates the direct access, over the internet, to the web server. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A loyalty card that connects to a retailer'"'"'s or manufacturer'"'"'s web server;
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(a) the loyalty card includes a USB autorun peripheral device; (b) the USB autorun peripheral device sends to a computing device a sequence of data complying with a standard protocol; (c) the sequence of data is processed at the computing device to automatically open a connection to the web server; and (d) in which the sequence of data, without any prior input of a website address for the web server or login data for that website or prior input of unique data identifying the device at any earlier time by a user, automates the direct access, over the internet, to the web server. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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