DEVICE AND METHOD FOR LINKING MATERIALITY WITH NETWORK SERVICE

• Main Authors: ROGER LAKHANI, WATABE KAORU
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 05.10.2001
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS; PHYSICS; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECOGNITION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To link all materialities in the analog world with the digital world by embedding the link for accessing an electronic network in the materiality. SOLUTION: A tag 1 for transmitting the information of a network connection destination such as URL or electronic mail address by a radio wave is attached to a materiality 10, that radio wave is received by a tag reader 2, information is transmitted to an Internet terminal 3 and a browser 33 or electronic mail software 34 on the Internet terminal 3 accesses the Internet 4 on the basis of the received information.