Association of a portable scanner with input/output and storage devices
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorsMartin T. King, Dale L. Grover, Clifford A. Kushler, James Q. Stafford-Fraser
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Abstract
A device identifier is scanned with a portable scanner and communicated to a service provider. The service provider associates the device with the portable scanner. Information is scanned from a printed source and communicated to the service provider and subsequent information is received in response at a device identified by the device identifier. In some embodiments, a communication session identifier is scanned with a portable scanner and communicated to the service provider rather than (or in cooperation with) the device identifier.
Claims16
A method, implemented in a computer system, of associating an input/output device with a portable scanner, comprising:
- receiving a device identifier scanned from a device;
- and
- associating, in a database in the computer system, the device with a scanner.
A method, implemented in a computer system, of associating an electronic device with a portable scanner, comprising:
- receiving a request to associate a portable scanner with a device, the request including scanned information, the scanned information identifying the device;
- and
- indicating, in a database in the computer system, the device as an associated device of the portable scanner.
A method, implemented in a computer system, of delivering content to an electronic device associated with a portable scanner, comprising:
- receiving a device identifier scanned using a portable scanner;
- receiving additional information scanned using the portable scanner;
- identifying a network address of a device identified by the device identifier;
- and
- communicating content to the network address in response to receiving the additional information scanned using the portable scanner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.