Automatic access of internet content with a camera-enabled cell phone

摘要

A camera-enabled cell phone that is adapted to image a machine readable code such as a bar code, decode the bar code, send the bar code data over the Internet to a resolution server that will return an associated URL that will ink the camera phone to content on an information server. Thus, by taking a picture of a bar code symbol, the camera phone will automatically retrieve content from the Internet that has been linked to that bar code via the present invention.

主权项

1. A system for accessing content from an information server computer on a computer network comprising:
A) a portable wireless integrated device comprising:
a. a wireless transceiver;b. an image capture module;c. a display screen; andd. processing circuitry programmed to:
i. cause the wireless transceiver to selectively communicate with a wireless network to transmit and receive wireless messages, and to communicate with server computers on a global computer network;ii. capture, via the image capture module, an image of a machine-readable code;iii. process the captured image to decode the machine-readable code into a file identifier comprising a server ID and an item ID;iv. form a data request message comprising the file identifier;v. transmit, via the wireless transceiver, the data request message to a gateway server computer on the global computer network;vi. receive content from the gateway server computer as a function of the data message request; andvii. display at least part of the received content on the display screen; andB) a gateway server computer interconnected to the global computer network and in communication with the portable wireless integrated device, the gateway server computer programmed to:
i. use the file identifier to obtain from a resolution server computer an information URL associated with the file identifier by
analyzing the server ID of the file identifier to determine an associated resolution server computer on the computer network; andsending the item ID of the file identifier to the resolution server computer on the computer network that is associated with the server ID ;ii. send the information URL to an information server computer designated by the information URL;iii. receive content from the information server computer as a function of the information URL; andiv. send the content to the portable wireless integrated device; andC) a resolution server computer interconnected to the global computer network and in communication with the gateway server computer, the resolution server computer programmed to return the information URL to the gateway server computer on request of the gateway server computer by
obtaining the information URL as a function of the server ID and the item ID; andreturning the information URL to the gateway server computer.