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US 6,032,195 AGranted
Method, system, and article for navigating an electronic network and performing a task using a destination-specific software agent
AssigneeMotorola, Inc.
InventorsWilliam L. Reber, Cary D. Perttunen
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Abstract
A method comprises steps of reading (80) an optical code (14) associated with a destination (20) of an electronic network (10), retrieving (92) task information associated with the destination (20) based upon the optical code (14), linking (94) to the destination (20) based upon the optical code (14), and performing (96) a task with the destination (20) using the task information. A system and an article are provided to perform the aforementioned steps.
Claims27
A method comprising the steps of:
- reading an optical code associated with a destination of an electronic network;
- retrieving task information associated with the destination based upon the optical code;
- retrieving, from a location remote from the destination, at least one software agent specific to the destination based upon the optical code;
- linking to the destination based upon the optical code;
- and
- performing a task with the destination using the task information and the at least one software agent.
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A system comprising:
- an optical code reader to read an optical code associated with a destination of an electronic network;
- and
- a network navigation apparatus responsive to the optical code reader to retrieve task information associated with the destination based upon the optical code, to retrieve, from a location remote from the destination, at least one software agent specific to the destination based upon the optical code, to link to the destination based upon the optical code, and to perform a task with the destination using the task information and the at least one software agent.
An article of manufacture comprising:
- a computer-readable storage medium;
- and
- computer-readable data stored by the computer-readable storage medium, the computer-readable data to direct a network navigation apparatus to retrieve task information associated with a destination of an electronic network based upon an optically-read code, to retrieve, from a location remote from the destination, at least one software agent specific to the destination based upon the optical code, to link to the destination based upon the optically-read code, and to perform a task with the destination using the task information and the at least one software agent.
A method comprising the steps of:
- reading a bar code associated with a destination of an electronic network;
- retrieving a software agent and task information specific to the destination based upon the bar code, the task information including user information and transaction information, the software agent and the task information retrieved from a database via the electronic network, the database remotely located from the destination, the database having a plurality of software agents, each of the software agents being specific to a corresponding one of a plurality of destinations;
- creating an electronic address having a prefix based upon the bar code and a suffix based upon the task information;
- linking to the destination based upon the electronic address;
- and
- performing an on-line transaction with the destination using the software agent.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.