Machine-readable tape
AssigneeAdvanced Functional Fabrics of America, Inc.
InventorsYoel Fink, Nicholas Dimitruk, Federico Bescotti, Catherine Chapman
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Abstract
Exemplary embodiments use a single, physical embodiment that compiles independent machine-readable codes together with little to no space in between codes. This physical embodiment is in two primary forms—adhesive tape or fabric strips with hook and loop backing. A code reader device, with software compatible with the machine-readable codes, can rapidly or simultaneously aggregate independent codes together on the physical embodiment in order to assign them to one or more digital addresses.
Claims19
A computer program product comprising a tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied therein computer program instructions that, when executed on a mobile computing device of a user, cause the mobile computing device to implement a mobile application for use with encoded tapes comprising at least one fastener material on at least one surface of the tape and a non-repetitive varying pattern on at least one surface of the tape encoding a plurality of different machine-readable codes, wherein the tape is separable into a plurality of arbitrary length segments including distinct sets of machine-readable codes that uniquely identify each such segment from other such segments of the tape, and wherein each arbitrary length segment of tape is attachable to an object using the at least one fastener material on the at least one surface of the arbitrary length segment of tape, the computer program instructions comprising:
- computer program instructions which, when executed on the mobile computing device, provide a user interface allowing user activation of an image scanner of the mobile computing device;
- computer program instructions which, when executed on the mobile computing device, receive from the image scanner a first scanned-image input including at least one scanned image of at least a portion of a first arbitrary length segment of encoded tape;
- computer program instructions which, when executed on the mobile computing device, identify a first distinct set of machine-readable codes on the portion of the first arbitrary length segment of the tape based on the at least one scanned image of the first scanned-image input;
- computer program instructions which, when executed on the mobile computing device, provide a user interface allowing the user to associate the first distinct set of machine-readable codes with a first common set of digital addresses;
- computer program instructions which, when executed on the mobile computing device, receive from the image scanner a second scanned-image input at least one scanned image of at least a portion of a second arbitrary length segment of encoded tape including a second distinct set of machine-readable codes;
- computer program instructions which, when executed on the mobile computing device, identify at least one machine-readable code of the second distinct set of machine-readable codes based on the at least one scanned image of the second scanned-image input;
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- computer program instructions which, when executed on the mobile computing device, provide user access to at least one member of a second common set of digital addresses associated with the at least one machine-readable code of the second distinct set of machine-readable codes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.