Automatic access of internet content with a camera-enabled cell phone
CA 2528349 C · Owner: Neomedia Technologies, Inc. · Inventors: Hunter, Kevin D.
Overview
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A camera-enabled cell phone (2) that is adapted to image a machine readable code such as a bar code (12), decode the bar code send the bar code data over , the Internet (18) to a resolution server (20) that will return an associated URL that will ink the camera phone to content on information server (22). Thus, by taking a picture of a bar code symbol the camera phone will , automatically retrieve content from the Internet that has been linked to that bar code via the present invention.
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- Filed June 7, 2004 and granted April 3, 2012. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 7, 2024.
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