Messaging via a coded business card and mobile telephone
AssigneeSilverbrook Research Pty Ltd
InventorsPaul Lapstun, Kia Silverbrook, Jacqueline Anne Lapstun, Simon Robert Walmsley
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Abstract
A method of sending a message using a business card with data encoded on a surface, and a mobile phone. The data includes an identifier which uniquely identifies the surface and the mobile telephone senses the coded data to determine the identifier. Using the identifier, the phone retrieves a representation of the business card, which has a plurality of fields, one of which being a messaging field. The business card is displayed on the phone such that the messaging field can be user selected, a message generated and transmitted to a communications address retrieved from a database.
Claims4
A method of sending a message using a business card with data encoded on a surface of the business card, the data including an identifier which uniquely identifies the surface of said business card, and the method further including a mobile telephone with a processor, a display, a media feed path for receiving the business card and a sensor module in the media feed path, the method comprising the steps of:
- positioning the business card in the media feed path;
- sensing the encoded data on the surface of the business card;
- using the processor to determine the identifier from the sensed encoded data;
- using the identifier to retrieve a representation of the business card, the representation including a plurality of fields with one of the fields being a messaging field;
- displaying the representation of the business card on the display;
- selecting the messaging field;
- using the processor and the identifier to retrieve a communications address from a database;
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- using the processor to open a message editor, with a current message being addressed to the communications address.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.