Launching a web site using a passive transponder

• US 7,975,022 B2
• Filed: 10/23/2007
• Issued: 07/05/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: RPX-LV Acquisition LLC (RPX Corporation)
• Inventors: Philyaw, Jeffry Jovan
• Primary Examiner(s): SHAW, PELING ANDREW
• Application Number:
  US11/877,510
• Publication Number:
  US 20080046981A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,351 Days
• Field of Search: 709/217, 709/219, 709/227, 709/204, 709/207, 709/208, 709/245, 709/238, 707/999.01, 707/E17.112, 707/999.002, 707/999.003, 707/999.004, 235/454, 705/23, 705/26
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9554 by using bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/93 which locates resources of other pieces of information, e.g. URL [Uniform Resource Locator]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/00 Network arrangements, protocols or services for addressing or naming
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/30 Managing network names, e.g. use of aliases or nicknames name-to-address mapping H04L61/45
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/301 Name conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/45 Network directories; Name-to-address mapping
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25841 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; arrangements for identifying locations of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/51; location of the user terminal in data switching networks H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4182 for identification purposes, e.g. storing user identification data, preferences, personal settings or data restricting access to computer systems by authenticating users using a predetermined code in combination with an additional device, e.g. dongle or smart card G06F21/123
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42202 environmental sensors, e.g. for detecting temperature, luminosity, pressure, earthquakes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42684 Client identification by a unique number or address, e.g. serial number, MAC address, socket ID network arrangements, protocols or services for addressing or naming H04L61/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 : Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 : Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6581 : Reference data, e.g. a movie identifier for ordering a movie or a product identifier in a home shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 : involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 : Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A method of displaying a web page to a user. A triggering device having a unique code stored therein is provided to the user. The unique code is extracted from the triggering device with an activation system, the activation system disposed on a network. Location information associated with the unique code is retrieved from a database, the location information corresponding to a location of the web page on a remote location disposed on the network. In response to retrieving the location information, the activation system is connected to the remote location. The web page corresponding to the location information of the remote location is then presented to the user via the activation system.

Claims

1. A method of forwarding information to a user, comprising the steps of:

providing a portable triggering device having a unique code and a unique transponder identification code stored therein, the unique transponder identification code being exclusively associated with that portable triggering device;

causing, by activation of the portable triggering device by an activation system, the unique code and the unique transponder identification code to be output from the portable triggering device in response to the portable triggering device being proximate to the activation system, the activation system disposed on a network and physically separate from the portable triggering device;

retrieving location information associated with the unique code from a database, the location information corresponding to a location of the web page on a remote location disposed on the network, wherein the step of retrieving location information further comprises the step of matching the unique code and the unique transponder identification code with the location information of the database;

in response to retrieving the location information, automatically connecting the activation system to the remote location; and

presenting the web page corresponding to the location information of the remote location to the user via the activation system.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the portable triggering device in the step of providing is a portable wireless passive transponder.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the passive transponder has the unique code stored therein in a non-volatile memory.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the unique code in the step of providing is uniquely associated with the web page.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the activation system in the step of causing comprises a transmitter and a receiver each operatively connected to a computer, the transmitter for activating the portable triggering device with an activating signal, and the receiver for receiving a triggering signal from the portable triggering device having the unique code contained therein.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of retrieving location information further comprises the step of matching the unique code with the location information of the database.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the database in the step of retrieving is local to the activation system.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the database in the step of retrieving is located at an intermediary location on the network.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the step of retrieving location information from the intermediary location further comprises the step of appending to the unique code routing information which defines the location of the intermediary location on the network such that the unique code is transmitted to the intermediary location in accordance with the appended routing information.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the activation system in the step of causing further includes a unique interface identification code associated with the activation system.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the step of retrieving location information further comprises the step of appending the unique interface identification code to the unique code and transmitting it to the database.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the step of retrieving location information further comprises the step of matching the unique code and the unique interface identification code with the location information of the database.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of connecting is performed using a browser program.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of presenting comprises displaying the web page to the user via a display operatively connected to the activation system.

15. An apparatus for forwarding information to a user, comprising:

an activation system disposed on a network that, when a portable triggering device having a unique code stored therein and a unique transponder identification code stored therein is proximate to the activation system, the unique transponder identification code being exclusively associated with that portable triggering device, such proximity results in the activation system causing the unique code and the unique transponder identification code to be output from the portable triggering device through activation thereof by the activation system, the activation system physically separate from the portable triggering device;

wherein location information associated with the unique code is retrieved from a database by matching the unique code and the unique transponder identification with the location information, the location information corresponding to a location of a web page on a remote location disposed on the network;

wherein in response to retrieving the location information, the activation system is automatically connected to the remote location; and

wherein the web page corresponding to the location information of the remote location is presented to the user via the activation system.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the portable triggering device is a portable wireless passive transponder.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the passive transponder has the unique code stored therein in a non-volatile memory.

18. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the unique code in the step of providing is uniquely associated with the web page.

19. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the activation system comprises a transmitter and a receiver each operatively connected to a computer, the transmitter for activating the portable triggering device with an activating signal, and the receiver for receiving a triggering signal from the portable triggering device having the unique code contained therein.

20. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the database is local to the activation system.

21. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the database is located at an intermediary location on the network.

22. The apparatus of claim 21, wherein routing information is appended to the unique code, the routing information defining the location of the intermediary location on the network such that the unique code is transmitted to the intermediary location in accordance with the appended routing information.

23. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the activation system further includes a unique interface identification code associated with the activation system.

24. The apparatus of claim 23, wherein the unique interface identification code is appended to the unique code and transmitted to the database.

25. The apparatus of claim 24, wherein the unique code and the unique interface identification code is matched with the location information of the database.

26. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the activation system is connected to the remote location using a browser program.

27. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the web page is presented to the user via a display operatively connected to the activation system.