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Printable interfaces and digital linkmarks

  • US 6,587,859 B2
  • Filed: 04/24/2001
  • Issued: 07/01/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/07/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system, comprising:

  • a physical medium including a first region having a hotspot encoded with a uniform resource locator (URL) and a second region having a data link encoded separately from the hotspot encoded in the first region with data associated with an item of interest associated with the URL;

    a sensor including a memory that can operate in an off-line mode and an on-line mode, the sensor, when operating in the off-line mode, operable to detect the hotspot and the data link, decode the URL encoded in the hotspot, separately decode, the associated data encoded in the data link, and store the URL and associated data in the memory, the sensor, when operating in the on-line mode, operable to transmit the URL and the associated data to a computer system; and

    a computer system coupled to the sensor, the computer system being operable to receive the URL and the associated data from the sensor, retrieve a file from a remote server at the URL, and use the associated data to perform an operation associated with the URL.

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