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InventorsRobert J. Schena, Mike Anderer, Peter B. Ritz, Mike Bernstein
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A method for bridging the gap between the virtual multimedia-based Internet world and the physical world of tangible object media, such as print media. More particularly, a method for managing a domain name service based on initiating a communication from an object containing provider information using a scanner, a portal server and a receiver connected across a network. The method involves scanning a machine-readable code containing a link information corresponding to the provider information from the object using the scanner and storing the machine-readable code in a memory. The link information is then extracted from the machine readable code in the memory. A user input information corresponding to the provider information is also obtained and stored in the memory. The link information and the user input information are then sent to the portal server via the network. The portal server receives the link information and user input information and selects a multimedia information sequence corresponding to the link information and the user input information. The multimedia information sequence is then sent to the receiver via the network. The receiver receives and stores the multimedia information sequence plays the sequence automatically or in response to a stimulus, such as a user request.
A method for managing a domain name service based on initiating a communication from an object containing provider information via a network connecting a scanner, a portal server, and a receiver, the method comprising the steps of:
The method of claim 8 wherein the food chain includes portal providers, hardware manufacturers, bandwidth carriers, media companies, ad firms, persons placing the ad, stores where the transaction was initiated, information providers, and any other parties facilitating the transaction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.
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Commerce: buying, selling or leasing transactions
Retrieval from the web: using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
Buying, selling or leasing transactions: electronic shopping [e-shopping]
Information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial
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The present invention is related to a method for bridging the gap between the virtual multimedia-based Internet world and the physical world of tangible object media. More particularly, the invention relates to a method for managing a domain name service based on initiating a communication from an object containing provider information using a scanner, a portal server and a receiver connected across a network.
Each server connected to the Internet has associated with it at least one unique Internet protocol (IP) address. The IP address is typically represented by a series of four numbers each separated by a period, such as “192.33.44.1” and is translated into a domain name by a Domain Name Server also known as a domain name service (“DNS”). The DNS is a static, hierarchical name service that maintains a database for resolving host names and IP addresses. For example, the numeric IP address “209.224.235.137” is converted by the DNS into the domain name “CLIC-THRU.COM”. This conversion allows users to connect to remote computers by inputting host names as well as IP addresses.
Until recently, only one company, Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI), was charged with allocating and administering DNS. Thus, any entity interested in obtaining a DNS entry had to register with NSI by providing, among other things, a unique alphanumeric sequence (e.g. “CLIC-THRU.COM”) which NSI would associated with an internet protocol (IP) address (e.g. 209.224.235.137). Recently, businesses other that NSI have been permitted to register DNS entries. The invention described herein provides for an alternative to the present DNS schema by using a system which incorporates scanner technology to manage the DNS.
FIG. 1 depicts an embodiment of a system performing a method of the present invention using a receiver to communicate with both a scanner and a portal server.
FIG. 2 depicts an embodiment of a system performing a method of the present invention wherein the scanner communicates with a portal server directly without a receiver.
FIG. 3 depicts an embodiment of a system performing a method of the present invention wherein the scanner and the customer premises equipment are integrated into one device.
FIG. 1 depicts an embodiment of a system performing a method of the present invention including three components: a scanner 100, a receiver 180, and a portal server 200. In one embodiment, the scanner 100 and the receiver 180 comprise into a single device. In another embodiment, the scanner 100 communicates with the portal server 200 directly, and a customer premises equipment (“CPE”) 300, serving as the receiver 180, plays multimedia sequence information received from the portal server 200.
The scanner 100 may be a handheld device, preferably, but not necessarily, wireless. The scanner 100 may be, for example, an enhanced existing electronic device, a TV remote control, a mouse, a cell phone, a PC card device, a palmtop, a calculator, a key chain, a pen, an identification card, a smart card, a hand held GPS device, a desktop or laptop computer, a digital appliance, a microprocessor-based device., a personal digital assistant, a pager or a two-way pager.
The scanner 100 is capable of reading data such as non-coded data and machine-readable code 10 from the printed medium 50. The machine-readable code 10 may be a barcode, an enhanced barcode, a new enhanced code, or any type of code, including dynamic codes and high density barcodes.