Messaging using a coded surface

• US 8,081,994 B2
• Filed: 02/28/2011
• Issued: 12/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Original Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Inventors: Lapstun, Paul, Silverbrook, Kia, Lapstun, Jacqueline Anne, Walmsley, Simon Robert
• Primary Examiner(s): ZEWDU, MELESS NMN
• Application Number:
  US13/037,186
• Publication Number:
  US 20110151905A1
• Time in Patent Office: 295 Days
• Field of Search: 455/66.1, 455410-411, 4554141-4144, 455/415, 455/418, 455/466, 455/517, 455/550.1, 4555561-5562, 455557-558, 455/564, 455/566, 455/412.1, 455/552.1, 358/1.02, 358/1.5, 358473-474, 358/476, 270/52.01, 270/52.14, 713/165, 713167-168, 713/176, 713179-181, 709202-203, 709/219, 709/216
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 3/445 Printers integrated in other types of apparatus, e.g. printers integrated in cameras
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0321 by optically sensing the absolute position with respect to a regularly patterned surface forming a passive digitiser, e.g. pen optically detecting position indicative tags printed on a paper sheet constructional details of pen-shaped pointing devices G06F3/03545, G06F3/03542, G06F3/037
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03545 Pens or stylus
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27475 using interactive graphical means or pictorial representations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2755 by optical scanning
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72409 by interfacing with external accessories hands-free H04M1/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42 Systems providing special services or facilities to subscribers specially adapted for wireless communication networks H04W4/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0018 Computer Telephony Resource Boards
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00204 with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00307 with a mobile telephone apparatus constructional features of portable telephone sets H04M1/0202; mobile radio systems H04W84/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00326 with a data reading, recognizing or recording apparatus, e.g. with a bar-code apparatus arrangements for the associated working of recording or reproducing apparatus with related apparatus G11B31/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00392 Other manual input means, e.g. digitisers or writing tablets
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00968 by scanning marks on a sheet mark-sheet input means H04N1/00355; sensing record carriers G06K7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32122 in a separate device, e.g. in a memory or on a display separate from image data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32133 on the same paper sheet, e.g. a facsimile page header
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32778 using a mark-sheet or machine-readable code request
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0082 : Image hardcopy reproducer H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3247 : Data linking a set of images to one another, e.g. sequence, burst or continuous capture mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3264 : of sound signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3269 : of machine readable codes or marks, e.g. bar codes or glyphs

Abstract

A method of sending a message using a print medium is disclosed. Coded data on a surface of the business card is sensed by a sensor module in a media feed path of a communications device. The coded data encodes an identifier which uniquely identifies the surface. The identifier is determined from sensed coded data, and a representation of the business card is retrieved using the identifier. The representation of the business card is displayed on display of the communications device, with the representation including fields, with one of the fields being a messaging field. Upon receiving a selection of the messaging field, a communications address is retrieved from a database where the communications address is indexed by the identifier. A message editor is opened in the communications device, with a current message being addressed to the communications address.

Claims

1. A method of sending a message using a business card, the method comprising the steps of:

sensing, by a sensor module in a media feed path of a communications device, coded data on a surface of the business card, the coded data encoding an identifier which uniquely identifies the surface;

determining, by a processor of the communications device, from the sensed coded data the identifier;

retrieving, by the processor, using the identifier, a representation of the business card;

displaying on a display of the communications device the representation of the business card, the representation including a plurality of fields with one of the fields being a messaging field;

receiving, by the processor, a selection of the messaging field;

retrieving, by the processor, a communications address from a database where the communications address is indexed by the identifier; and

opening, by a processing device, a message editor, with a current message being addressed to the communications address.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the message editor is an SMS editor and the communications device is a mobile telephone.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising the steps of:

determining from the coded data a digital signature; and

determining whether the digital signature is authentic,

wherein the retrieving of the representation step is performed when it is determined that the digital signature is authentic.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising the step of loading the communications address into an address book.