WO1998012644A1 - Electronic network navigation device and method for linking to an electronic address therewith - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to methods and systems for navigating an electronic network.
- the World Wide Web uses an addressing system known as a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) that defines the location of a resource on the Internet.
- URLs are comprised of up to four parts: a protocol, a domain name, a path, and a filename. The combination of these four parts can produce a complex address for a resource. For example, the address for information on two-way pagers on the Motorola home page is: http://www.mot.com/MIMS/MSPG/Products /Two-way/tango/desc . html .
- Another part of the problem is in the rapid increase of the number of entities and the number of resources on the World Wide Web.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of a network navigation device in accordance with the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is an illustration of a first embodiment of a network navigation device in accordance with the present invention
- FIG. 3 is an illustration of a second embodiment of a network navigation device in accordance with the present invention
- FIG. 4 illustrates a third embodiment of a network navigation device in accordance with the present invention
- FIG. 5 illustrates a fourth embodiment of a network navigation device in accordance with the present invention
- FIG. 6 illustrates a fifth embodiment of a network navigation device in accordance with the present invention.
- FIG. 7 illustrates an example of a network access apparatus and examples of various data readers for reading machine-readable data from a network navigation device
- FIG. 8 is a flow chart of an embodiment of a method of linking to an electronic address in an electronic network .
- Embodiments of the present invention advantageously provide an electronic network navigation device for linking a user to an electronic address.
- the device preferably includes a human-viewable image associated with a resource at an electronic address and machine- readable data for linking to the electronic address.
- a user may link to the electronic address by reading the machine-readable data using a data reader rather than by typing an electronic address.
- the addressing format and the address itself become substantially transparent to the user. Consequently, the problem of address complexity is addressed and the importance of reserving desired domain names is reduced.
- the device is well-suited for utilization by the masses to navigate to desired locations on the Internet and the World Wide Web.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of a network navigation device 10 in accordance with the present invention.
- the network navigation device 10 comprises a substrate 12, a human-viewable image 14 supported by the substrate 12, and machine-readable data 16 supported by the substrate 12.
- the human-viewable image 14 is indicative of a resource at an electronic address 20 in an electronic network 22.
- the machine- readable data 16 provides navigation instructions for automatically linking a network access apparatus 24 to the electronic address 20 via the electronic network 22.
- the machine-readable data 16 can further include instructions which directs the network access apparatus 24 to execute a predetermined network access routine, e.g. a Web browser routine, a Telnet client routine, or others subsequently described.
- the electronic netwoik 22 includes the Internet, the World Wide Web, or an intranet.
- tne electronic address 20 can have the form of a URL or an IP (Internet Protocol) address.
- the substrate 12 is formed by a substantially flat piece of material. Examples of materials which can be utilized to form the substrate 12 include, but are not limited to, dielectric materials such as paper, cardboard, and plastic, and substantially nonmagnetic materials. Preferably, the material and its thickness are selected so that the substrate 12 is stiff, yet flexible.
- the substrate 12 need not be homogeneous, i.e. more than two materials can be utilized to form the substrate 12. It is also preferred that the substrate 12 be shaped and sized to facilitate ease in handling by individuals, such as a human 26.
- the substrate 12 can be card-shaped.
- the substrate 12 can have the size of a business card, a credit card, an index card, a trading card (e.g. a baseball card), or a playing card (e.g. from a deck of playing cards) .
- the substrate 12 includes a page in a book, a magazine, a newspaper, or other printed publication.
- the substrate 12 can have various shapes, such as rectangular, circular, oval, or polygonal shapes, and can have various sizes.
- the human-viewable image 14 can be supported by the substrate 12 in a variety of ways.
- the human-viewable image 14 is printed directly onto the substrate 12.
- the human-viewable image 14 is printed onto a second substrate for affixing or adhering to a surface of the substrate 12.
- the second substrate can have an adhesive backing for affixing the human-viewable image 14 to the substrate 12.
- Examples of two-dimensional bar codes include, but are not limited to, Data Matrix and PDF417.
- the printed machine readable data is not readily interpretable or not readily discernible by the human 26.
- a human may be specially trained to mentally decode a bar code, such a code is practically indiscernible by most humans.
- the printed data can be either visible or invisible to the human 26.
- the machine-readable data 16 can be: (i) stored directly onto a portion of the substrate 12 having a magnetic storage medium; (ii) stored onto a magnetic storage medium for affixing to the substrate 12; or (iii) stored onto a magnetic storage medium contained (e.g. sandwiched) within the substrate 12.
- the machine-readable data 16 can be stored in a memory device integrated with the substrate 12.
- the electronically-stored data can be externally accessed via an interface integrated with the network navigation device 10, or via a transmitter integrated with the network navigation device 10.
- the machine-readable data 16 is communicated to the network access apparatus 24 by a data reader 30.
- the form of the data reader 30 is dependent upon the form of the machine-readable data 16.
- the data reader 30 can include an optical imaging reader such as a scanning wand, a linear CCD (charge coupled device) reader, or a two-dimensional CCD reader.
- the data reader 30 can include a magnetic read head, such as those within a magnetic stripe reader.
- the data reader 30 can include an electronic interface or a receiver .
- the network access apparatus 24 can have a variety of forms, including but not limited to, a general purpose computer, a network computer, a network television, an internet television, a cable modem and a portable wireless device.
- a display device 32 such as a monitor or a television, is coupled to the network access apparatus 24 to display a visual content of the resource upon linking to the electronic address 20.
- an image 34 viewable on the display device 32 upon linking to the electronic address 20 is similar to (or can be equivalent to) at least a portion of the human-viewable image 14.
- image 34 include any suitable image such as a 2D image, text, a perspective 3D image, or a perspective corrected portion of a wide angle image, such as a 360 degree photosphere or photobubble available from omniview at www.omniview.com.
- FIGS. 2 to 6 illustrate various examples of embodiments of the network navigation device 10. It is noted that the teachings herein can be interchanged among the various examples to form additional embodiments .
- FIG. 2 is an illustration of a first embodiment of a network navigation device in accordance with the present invention.
- the network navigation device includes a substrate 40 which supports a human-viewable image 42 and machine-readable data 44.
- the machine- readable data 44 includes a bar code representation of the full URL of the Motorola home page on the World Wide Web (in particular, http://motorola.com).
- the human-viewable image 42 includes an image which is viewable upon linking to the Motorola home page. Included in the human-viewable image 42 is textual information such as '"Motorola" and the "What you never thought possible” trademark. The human-viewable image 42 further includes graphical information such as the Motorola logo 46.
- the substrate 40 has the size of a business card (3.5 inches by 2 inches) .
- the substrate 40 is formed entirely of a dielectric and/or nonmagnetic material such as paper, cardboard, or plastic. These materials are advantageous for producing a network navigation device which is inexpensive, and hence, can be disposed after use.
- FIG. 3 is an illustration of a second embodiment of a network navigation device in accordance with the present invention.
- the network navigation device includes a substrate 50 which can be similarly sized and shaped, and of a similar material as the substrate 40 in FIG. 2.
- the substrate 50 supports machine-readable data 52 which provides a bar code representation of the IP address of the Discovery Channel's home page on the World Wide Web (in particular, 204.132.253.102).
- the substrate also supports a human-viewable image 54 which intuitively conveys to a user that the network navigation device is for linking to Discovery Channel Online.
- the human-viewable image 54 corresponds to an image which is viewable upon linking to the Discovery Channel home page .
- these network navigation devices can be: d) included as inserts in magazines, newspapers, or other publications; (ii) stacked into decks and packaged for distribution by mail or for marketing in stores; and/or (iii) distributed as one distributes Dusiness cards.
- a second advantage is that a user can rapidly thumb through a number of network navigation devices to find network resources of interest by viewing the image on each network navigation device.
- the network navigation devices can be collected and traded in a manner similar to trading cards.
- each page can define a single network navigation device, or can define a plurality of network navigation devices. If desired, a page defining NOT FURNISHED AT TIME OF PUBLICATION
- the network navigation device includes a substrate 70 which supports a magnetic storage medium 72.
- the magnetic storage medium 72 has the form of a magnetic stripe, although alternative forms can be utilized.
- the magnetic storage medium 72 stores machine-readable data providing navigation instructions for linking to an electronic address.
- the machine-readable data is communicated to a data reader having a magnetic reading head, such as a magnetic stripe reader.
- the substrate 70 supports a human-viewable image 74 indicative of a resource at the electronic address.
- the human-viewable image 74 includes an illustration of Motorola's BitSURFR modems.
- the magnetic storage medium 72 can store a representation of the URL for obtaining information on Motorola' s BitSURFR modems, which is http : //www.mot . com/MIMS/ISG/Products/b ⁇ tsurfr_pro/ .
- the substrate 70 has the size of a credit card (3.375 inches by 2.25 inches) .
- the substrate 70 is formed entirely of a dielectric and/or nonmagnetic material such as paper, cardboard, or plastic.
- the only magnetic material in the network navigation device is within the magnetic storage medium 72.
- FIG. 6 illustrates a fifth embodiment of a network navigation device in accordance with the present invention.
- the network navigation device includes a radio frequency tag 80 containing navigation instructions for linking to an electronic address.
- the radio frequency tag 80 includes a memory containing data representative of the navigation instructions, and a transmitter which transmits a signal representative of the data for external reception.
- the memory can be either read-only or read-write.
- the radio frequency tag 80 can be either active (i.e. having an internal battery for powering its circuits) or passive (i.e. powering its circuits using externally-generated power) .
- radio frequency tag 80 can be utilized for the radio frequency tag 80, including but not limited to, tags produced by Indala Corporation and the MicroStamp RIC (Remote Intelligent Communication) tags available from Micron Communications, Inc. Illustrated in FIG. 6. is a network navigation device based on the MicroStamp RIC unit, which is postage-stamp sized (1.25 inches by 1.25 inches) .
- a human-viewable image 82 is supported by an exterior surface of the radio frequency tag 80.
- the substrate as described earlier includes a portion of the housing of the radio frequency tag 80.
- the human-viewable image 82 includes the Motorola logo, which indicates that the navigation instructions will link a user to an electronic address which provides information about Motorola, Inc.
- FIG. 7 illustrates an example of a network access apparatus and examples of various data readers for reading machine-readable data from a network navigation device.
- the network access apparatus includes a personal computer 90 having an input interface, such as a keyboard 92, and a display device, such as a monitor 94, coupled thereto.
- the personal computer 90 communicates with an electronic network via a line 96, which can include a telephone line, an ISDN line, a cable television line, a fiber optic line, a computer network line, or the like.
- the personal computer 90 can wirelessly communicate with the electronic network.
- the personal computer 90 can include a modem and/or a transceiver to communicate with the electronic network.
- the electronic network can be provided by an online service, an Internet service provider, a local area network service, a wide area network service, a cable television service, a wireless data service, an intranet, or the like.
- the various data readers coupled to the personal computer 90 include a bar code reader 98, an RF tag reader 100, a PCMCIA card reader 102, and a magnetic stripe reader 104.
- the data readers may be coupled wirelessly or by a wireline connection.
- the bar code reader 98 is utilized to read bar-coded navigation instructions from a network navigation device, such as those illustrated in FIGS. 2 and 3.
- the RF tag reader 100 is utilized to receive and decode an electromagnetic signal representative of the navigation instructions generated by an RF tag, such as one illustrated in FIG. 6.
- the PCMCIA card reader 102 interfaces with a PCMCIA card, such as one illustrated in FIG. 4, to read navigation instructions stored therein.
- the magnetic stripe reader 104 reads magnetically-stored navigation instructions stored by a magnetic stripe, sucn as one illustrated in FIG. 5. It is noted that the bar code reader 98 illustrative of any optical reading device which can be utilized. Similarly, the PCMCIA card reader 102 is illustrative of any memory card reader which can be utilized, and the magnetic stripe reader 104 is illustrative of any magnetic reading device which can be utilized.
- FIG. 8 is a flow chart of an embodiment of a method of linking to an electronic address in an electronic network.
- the method can be utilized by the network access apparatus 24 in FIG. 1 to automatically link a user to the electronic address encoded on the network navigation device 10.
- the user selects a desired electronic address to visit based upon the human-viewable image 14 associated therewith or the network navigation device 10.
- the method includes a step of reading machine-readable data from a network navigation device.
- the machine-readable data can be read using the data reader 30.
- the specific type of data reader utilized is selected based upon how the machine-readable data is stored on the network navigation device.
- a step of decoding the machine-readable data is performed to generate navigation instructions.
- the navigation instructions tell the network navigation apparatus 24 how to link to the electronic address.
- the navigation instructions can include at least a portion of a URL or at least a portion of an IP address. If a partial address is received, an additional step of completing the electronic address can be performed. For example, if an IP address is received, such as from the bar code for 204.132.253.102 illustrated in FIG. 3, the IP address can be prepended by "http://" in this step.
- a URL can includes up to four parts: a protocol, a domain name, a path, and a filename.
- URL protocols include: "file:” for accessing a file stored on a local storage medium; “ftp:” for accessing a file from an FTP (file transfer protocol) server; "http:” for accessing an HTML (hypertext marking language) document; “gopher:” for accessing a Gopher server; “mailto:” for sending an e-mail message; "news:” for linking to a Usenet newsgroup; “telnet”: for opening a telnet session; and “wais:” for accessing a WAIS server.
- a step of storing the navigation instructions is performed as indicated by block 114.
- the navigation instructions can be stored as a bookmark or stored in a favorites list, such as those available in many Web browsers, to provide a shortcut tc the electronic address.
- a user can link to the electronic address by selecting the shortcut rather than having to re-read the navigation instructions from the network navigation device.
- a representation of the human-viewable image 14 is stored to provide an iconic representation for the shortcut to the electronic address .
- the machine-readable data can include machine-readable data representative of the human-viewable image 14 which is read in block 110.
- the human-viewable image 14 can be optically scanned into the network access apparatus 24 using a page scanner or the like.
- an electronic representation of the human-viewable image 14 can be downloaded from the electronic address 20 upon linking thereto.
- a step of executing a predetermined network access routine is performed.
- the step of executing the predetermined network access routine can include any of: (i) executing a routine to connect and/or logon to a service provider (e.g. executing a dial-up routine or a wireless authentication routine to connect to a service provider); and (ii) executing a client routine for subsequent user interaction with the electronic address (e.g. executing a graphical user interface routine or a Web browsing routine) .
- the step of executing the predetermined network access routine can be executed prior to reading the machine-readable data in block 110.
- the predetermined network access routine can be automatically initiated upon reading the machine- readable data in block 110.
- the machine-readable data 16 can include instructions for directing the initiation of the predetermined network access routine, and for directing which predetermined network access routine is to be executed.
- the machine-readable data 16 can include instructions for directing the type and the specifics of the connection to be made to the electronic network 22. These instructions can dictate whether a wireline connection or a wireless connection should be made, and/or which wireline connection or which wireless connection should be made.
- the instructions on one network navigation device may direct a connection to a first service provider (e.g. America Online) while the instructions on another network navigation device direct a connection to a second service provider (e.g. CompuServe).
- a first service provider e.g. America Online
- a second service provider e.g. CompuServe
- the machine-readable data 16 can include instructions for selecting which client routine is to be executed.
- the instructions on one network navigation device may direct that a first graphical user interface routine (e.g. Netscape Navigator) be executed, while the instructions on another network navigation device direct a that second graphical user interface routine (e.g. Microsoft Internet Explorer) be executed.
- a first graphical user interface routine e.g. Netscape Navigator
- a second graphical user interface routine e.g. Microsoft Internet Explorer
- the method includes a step of linking to the electronic address using the navigation instructions.
- This step typically includes transmitting the navigation instructions to the electronic network 22 to establish the link to the electronic address 20.
- the method includes a step of receiving content from electronic address 20 once the link is established.
- the content from the electronic address 20 can include audible information and/or visual information, such as graphical information and/or textual information.
- Examples of the content include, but are not limited to, a file from a local hard drive, a file from a FTP server, an HTML document, content from a Gopher server, a message from a newsgroup, a transmission from a Telnet session, and a transmission from a WAIS server.
- the method includes a step of displaying the content from the electronic address 20.
- the content can include an image which corresponds to at least a portion of the human-viewable image 14 on the network navigation device 10.
- An article of manufacture can be formed to direct a network access apparatus to perform the above-described steps.
- the article of manufacture can include a computer-readable storage medium having computer- readable data stored therein which directs the network access apparatus to perform the above-described steps.
- Examples of the computer-readable storage medium include, but are not limited to, a logic circuit, a memory, a mass storage medium, an optical disk, a CD- ROM, a magnetic disk, a floppy disk, a hard disk, and a PCMCIA card.
- the various embodiments of the present invention provide a device having a human-viewable image which is intuitively associated with a resource at an electronic address and machine-readable data for linking to the electronic address, they provide a significant improvement in that the addressing format and the address itself may become transparent to the user. Consequently, the problem of address complexity is addressed using embodiments of the network navigation device. Further, the dependency on reserving desired domain names is reduced.
- the intuitive association between the human- viewable image and the electronic address can be reinforced by including at least a portion of the human- viewable image within the content provided by the electronic address, or within an iconic representation of a shortcut link to the electronic address in a graphical user interface.
- the various embodiments of the present invention as herein-described allows a user to automatically establish a connection to an electronic network and automatically execute a client routine upon reading the machine-readable data from the network navigation device.
- the process of initiating the connection e.g. dialing a service provider and logging on
- executing the client routine e.g. the Web browser
- the various embodiments of the present invention as herein-described provide network navigation devices which can be inexpensively produced for wide distribution, are easy to handle for selecting electronic addresses of interest, can be collected and traded like trading cards, and can be disposed or discarded after use.
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