Device for actuating a portable terminal

• US 9,022,283 B2
• Filed: 01/05/2011
• Issued: 05/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Connecthings Co.
• Original Assignee: Laetitia Gazel Anthoine
• Inventors: Gazel Anthoine, Laetitia
• Primary Examiner(s): Marshall, Christle I
• Application Number:
  US13/978,085
• Publication Number:
  US 20140001255A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,581 Days
• Field of Search: 235/375
• 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. A system enabling a user to actuate a portable terminal using a set of tags having a unique identifier, the system comprising:

a set of tags each having a unique identifier, a portable terminal that is transportable by a user, the portable terminal being configured to sequentially read, among the set of tags, unique identifiers and a database hosted on a server computer that is remote from said portable terminal and linked with the portable terminal, the database configured to identify the portable terminal, wherein the database is configured to actuate the identified portable terminal as a function of the number of times that said portable terminal has read a same tag among said set of tags.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the database is configured to actuate the identified portable terminal by sending commands to said portable terminal.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein said commands are a command to inhibit or authorise a sound signal of the portable terminal.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the database is configured to actuate the identified terminal by sending data to said portable terminal.

5. The system according to claim 4, wherein said data are sent to an internet browser of the portable terminal.

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

7. A method comprising creating a personalised route with the method of claim 6, 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.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein the set of tags are located in a museum, a monument, a commercial center or a town.

9. The system according to claim 1, wherein the database is adapted to actuate the identified portable terminal by selecting a particular content for display by the portable terminal based on the number of times that said portable user terminal has consecutively read said same tag among said set of tags.

10. The system according to claim 9, wherein said particular content is a language.

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

a set of tags having a unique identifier, the portable terminal configured to sequentially read, among the set of tags, unique identifiers, and a database hosted on a server computer that is remote from said portable terminal and linked with the portable terminal, the database configured to identify the portable terminal, wherein the database is configured to actuate the identified portable terminal as a function of the number of times that said portable terminal has consecutively read a same tag among said set of tags.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein the set of tags are located in a museum, a monument, a commercial center or a town.

13. The system according to claim 11, wherein the database is adapted to actuate the identified portable terminal by selecting a particular content for display by the portable terminal based on the number of times that said portable user terminal has consecutively read said same tag among said set of tags.

14. The system according to claim 13, wherein said particular content is a language.

15. A system for actuating a portable user terminal, the system comprising:

a set of physical tags positioned at different locations and each having a unique identifier, the portable user terminal adapted to read the unique identifiers of the set of physical tags, and

a database hosted on a server computer that is remote from said portable user terminal and linked with the portable user terminal, the database configured to identify the portable user terminal and to actuate the identified portable user terminal, wherein the database is adapted to select a particular content for display by the portable user terminal as a function of the number of times that said portable user terminal has consecutively read a same physical tag among said set of physical tags.

16. The system according to claim 15, wherein said particular content is a language.

17. The system according to claim 15, wherein the set of physical tags are located in a museum, a monument, a commercial center or a town.