System and method for presenting information about an object on a portable electronic device

• US 9,740,784 B2
• Filed: 01/18/2017
• Issued: 08/22/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: RFID Technology Innovations, LLC (Leigh M. Rothschild)
• Original Assignee: Symbology Innovations, LLC (Leigh M. Rothschild)
• Inventors: Rothschild, Leigh M.
• Primary Examiner(s): TRAIL, ALLYSON NEEL
• Application Number:
  US15/409,309
• Publication Number:
  US 20170124195A1
• Time in Patent Office: 216 Days
• Field of Search: 235375, 235379, 705 39, 705 411, 705 80
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/381 using identifiers, e.g. barcodes, RFIDs for URLs G06F16/9554
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9554 by using bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/06028 using bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07 with integrated circuit chips
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07758 arrangements for adhering the record carrier to further objects or living beings, functioning as an identification tag
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10 by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. optical sensing; by corpuscular radiation
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10009 sensing by radiation using wavelengths larger than 0.1 mm, e.g. radio-waves or microwaves
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10722 Photodetector array or CCD scanning
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10881 constructional details of hand-held scanners
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/1413 1D bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/10 specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0207 Discounts or incentives, e.g. coupons or rebates
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/188 Electronic negotiation

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for enabling a portable electronic device to retrieve information about an object when the object'"'"'s symbology, e.g., a barcode, is detected. According to one embodiment a method is providing in which symbology associated with an object is detected and decoded to obtain a decode string. The decode string is sent to one or more visual detection applications for processing, wherein the one or more visual detection applications reside on the portable electronic device, and receiving a first amount of information about the object from the one or more visual detection applications. The method also includes sending the decode string to a remote server for processing and receiving a second amount of information about the object from the remote server. The first amount of information is combined with the second amount of information to obtain cumulative information which is displayed on the portable electronic device.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a portable electronic device configured to;

scan an object, wherein the object contains a Radio Frequency Identification Tag (RFID);

detect an image associated with an object using one or more detection applications;

decode the image to obtain a decode string using the one or more detection applications; and

send the decode string to a remote server for processing;

the remote server configured to process the decode string and determine information with regard to the object based on the decode string;

wherein the portable electronic device is further configured to;

receive the information with regard to the object based on the decode string from the remote server;

and display the information on a display device associated with the portable electronic device.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the one or more detection applications comprises at least one viewfinder.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the object is associated with a unique identification code.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the display further comprises an audio output device.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the portable electronic device further comprises a storage module.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the portable electronic device is further configured to encrypt information before it is transmitted to another portable electronic device or the remote server.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the portable electronic device is further configured to decrypt one or more locked digital media content files stored in the storage module.