Communications: electrical – Selective – Intelligence comparison for controlling
Reexamination Certificate
1997-04-24
2001-02-27
Saras, Steven (Department: 2675)
Communications: electrical
Selective
Intelligence comparison for controlling
C340S005910, C235S380000, C235S382500
Reexamination Certificate
active
06194992
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention is a novel way to develop and view a record of an individual's transactions using a Mobile Web. The invention is a data storage device that allows one to have a database of all the information gathered at different sites as well as for service providers to have a database of interested participants, and/or their activities either via the internet or through other communication channels including conferences, exhibitions, and other events.
With the advent of the internet and tele-conferencing along with numerous exhibitions, it is difficult for the organizers and participants of shows to keep track of the attendees as well as difficult for those attendees to keep track of all the information gathered at those sites. There is therefore a need for a device that can be easily carried along by attendees and by organizers for keeping track of each other and for exchanging information and constantly updating information on interested participants.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention addresses that problem by providing a Mobile Web. The Mobile Web is similar to the World Wide Web which is accessible using a browser such as Netscape, except this Mobile Web need not rely on hosts or network access to retrieve pages of information (i.e., Web pages). This Mobile Web is even accessible without necessarily having any network-access (e.g., the Internet). All the information and navigational links are stored on any media storage device, such as a personal electronic recordable medium.
In a preferred embodiment, the mobile web ID system has a portable identification memory device with user's identification data stored in the memory device. Storage reader-writers at exhibitor locations having a memory storage for storing exhibitor information about the exhibitors are provided. Memory device slots in the reader-writers temporarily receive the portable memory devices with reading heads adjacent the slots reading the identification data into the storage and writing heads adjacent the slots writing stored exhibitor information into the portable identification memory device.
Preferably, the reader-writer is a computer and the memory storage is a computer. The portable identification memory device may preferably be a 3.5″ floppy disk, a PCMCIA or PC Card, a smart card, a Flash card, a ZipDisk, a Floptical disk, a swipe card or the like.
In preferred embodiments, a convention information exchange system has an exhibitors station having a programmable computer with a program for automatically receiving and storing information from a user's identification data storage medium and for writing on that data storage medium information about the exhibitor and its products from a hard disk storage in the computer or from the Internet under control of the user according to the user's selection of menus on a screen on the computer via devices such as a keyboard, touch screen, or mouse connected to the computer. The user's identifying data is provided on the data storage medium such as identification data including the user's name, title, organization and addresses.
Preferably, a data storage device may be provided at plural locations each having a computer with a memory for storing and providing information data, a screen for displaying menus, a keyboard, touch screen, or a mouse for entering selections from the menu. A control is stored either on the user carried device or on the data storage device. The data storage device receives the user carried device and an interface in the data storage device receives and writes the identification data from the user carried device into the memory under direction of the control. Thus, the exhibitor information data from the memory is provided to the user carried device under direction of the control and the user's inputs on the input device.
In preferred embodiments, the user carried device includes a complementary user's interface and the exhibitor station computer interface comprises an interface for communicating data with the user's complementary interface by radio, infrared or wire. The control provides the exhibitor with a complete record of identification of users who visited the exhibitor's booth.
The data storage device is provided at exhibitor booths at a show or convention; or at manufacturing plants, where the information data comprises information about machines in the plants, and the user is an employee, such as a manager, checking on the machines by exchanging information about the machines via the user carried device. The data storage device may be provided at learning stations, and the user being a student exchanging information with the learning stations via the user carried device. The data storage device may be provided at home sales sites, and the user being a realtor exchanging information with the sites via the user carried device. The data storage device may be provided at gyms, with the user being an exerciser exchanging information with equipment in the gyms via the user carried device.
A preferred method of information exchange includes providing a mobile web recording medium to a user, recording information about the user on the mobile web recording medium, providing information terminals at locations for receiving the mobile web recording medium, storing information data on the terminals, communicating the mobile web recording medium with the terminals, providing a control for enabling the communicating of the mobile web recording medium with the terminals, exchanging information by supplying the information about the user to the terminal and by recording selective information data from or through the terminal to the mobile web recording medium by providing commands by inputting means, terminating communication of the mobile web recording medium with the terminal, and if desired repeating the above steps at a different terminal. Preferably, the terminals are computers. Inputting means may be a mouse, a keyboard, a touch screen, or the like attached to the terminals and the mobile web recording medium may be a floppy disk.
Preferably, the control is provided on the mobile web recording medium or the terminals as a batch of executable commands, scripts, or programs.
These and further and other objects and features of the invention are apparent in the disclosure, which includes the above and ongoing written specification, with the claims and the drawings.
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Kleinrock Leonard
Short Joel E.
Alphonse Fritz
Brooks & Kushman P.C.
Nomadix, LLC
Saras Steven
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