Network address compression for electronic devices
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsReza Abbasian, Charles H. Ying, Steven J. Falkenburg
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Abstract
The subject technology provides an in-place encoding of a network identifier that compresses the network identifier without mapping the network identifier to a another server or service, such as URL shortening service. The network identifier may be compressed using segmented encoding operations that segment the network identifier, and encode the characters of the network identifier using a first set of encoding operations for a first portion of the network identifier and a second set of encoding operations for a second portion of the network identifier. Template encoding may also be provided for network identifiers that conform to a predefined template format.
Claims21
A method, comprising:
- scanning, using a camera of an electronic device, an object in a physical environment of the electronic device, wherein the object comprises an embedded visual representation of an encoded network identifier, wherein the encoded network identifier comprises characters, wherein the characters of the encoded network identifier are not included in the embedded visual representation, and wherein the object comprises a visual complexity capable of encoding a first number of bits;
- extracting, at the electronic device, the encoded network identifier from the embedded visual representation;
- decoding, at the electronic device, the encoded network identifier to obtain a network identifier having a domain, wherein the network identifier has a size corresponding to a second number of bits larger than the first number of bits, and wherein the encoded network identifier does not include domain information associated with any domain other than the domain of the network identifier;
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- accessing, by the electronic device, a resource corresponding to the network identifier.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising code that, when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- scanning, using a camera of an electronic device, an object in a physical environment of the electronic device, wherein the object comprises an embedded visual representation of an encoded network identifier, wherein the encoded network identifier comprises characters, wherein the characters of the encoded network identifier are not included in the embedded visual representation, and wherein the object comprises a visual complexity capable of encoding a first number of bits;
- extracting, at the electronic device, the encoded network identifier from the embedded visual representation;
- decoding, at the electronic device, the encoded network identifier to obtain a network identifier having a domain, wherein the network identifier has a size corresponding to a second number of bits larger than the first number of bits, and wherein the encoded network identifier does not include domain information associated with any domain other than the domain of the network identifier;
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- accessing, by the electronic device, a resource corresponding to the network identifier.
An electronic device comprising:
- a memory;
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- one or more processors configured to:
- scan, using a camera of the electronic device, an object in a physical environment of the electronic device, wherein the object comprises an embedded visual representation of an encoded network identifier, wherein the encoded network identifier comprises characters, wherein the characters of the encoded network identifier are not included in the embedded visual representation, and wherein the object comprises a visual complexity capable of encoding a first number of bits;
- extract the encoded network identifier from the embedded visual representation;
- decode the encoded network identifier to obtain a network identifier having a domain, wherein the network identifier has a size corresponding to a second number of bits larger than the first number of bits, and wherein the encoded network identifier does not include domain information associated with any domain other than the domain of the network identifier;
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- access a resource corresponding to the network identifier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.