Conveying information to a communication device using sonic representations
OwnerGavin Brebnerinventor
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Abstract
A method of conveying network location information to a communication device, comprising procuring the network location information as a sonic representation thereof, and effecting wireless transmission of the sonic representation towards the communication device, the sonic representation, during transmission, being imperceptible or unintelligible to a user of the device.
Claims10
A method of conveying network location information to a communication device, comprising procuring the network location information as a sonic representation thereof, and effecting wireless transmission of the sonic representation towards the communication device, the sonic representation, during transmission, being imperceptible or unintelligible to a user of the device.
A method according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the network location information is a URL.
A method according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the communication device is a PDA.
A method according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the sonic representation is blended or tranmitted with an audible stream.
A communication device having a receiving element operative to receive, in a form imperceptible or unintelligible to a user thereof, a sonic representation of network location information, and a conversion element operative to convert the sonic representation to a machine-readable format.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.