Remote access system and method
US7624916B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 23, 2004 |
| Grant date | Dec 1, 2009 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 4, 2026 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/9554
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method and apparatus is disclosed of employing an information device (20) to transfer one or more data items from a remote holding area (32) to a local device (46) in dependence upon an access identifier representing the location of the one or more data items. The method comprises the steps of presenting an audio/visual representation of the access identifier at the information device (20), capturing the audio/visual representation at the local device (46), determining the location of the one or more data items from the captured audio/visual representation, and transferring the one or more data items to the local device (46) from the determined location. In a preferred embodiment, the information device (20) is a mobile device such as a mobile telephone, the audio/visual representation comprises a graphical representation such as a bar code that is displayed on a display (25) of the information device (20), and the bar code representation is captured at the local device (46) using a bar code scanner (49).
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