Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Qualcomm Incorporated

Timothy Kindberg

Kenton O'Hara

A user acquires a data itemin a mobile device, the data item representing, for example, the right to a digital asset. A web pageincluding bar code symbolis displayed on the displayof a further device such as a PC. The bar code symbol codes a location of a resource. The mobile devicereads the bar code symboland sends data from the data item to the resource at the location coded by the bar code symbol. The further devicesubsequently carries out an action using the data-item data received at the resource, or associated data; for example, the further device uses the data to fetch a related digital asset. In one embodiment the location coded by the bar code symbol is that of a database record uniquely associated with the symbol. In another embodiment, the location coded by the bar code symbol is the address on a local network of the further device

Method and apparatus for enabling interaction between a mobile device and another device

A computer voting system arranged to receive votes from one or more mobile communications devices through a wireless personal area network in order to select content stored on the system, each mobile device comprising a mobile device name that can be edited by a user to include a user-entered vote, the system comprising: inputs arranged to receive one or more mobile device names; a processor arranged to analyse the or each device name to determine the presence of user-entered votes; storage apparatus arranged to store content; and an output arrangement arranged to output content; wherein the processor is further arranged to determine the content to be output by the output arrangement based on the or each user-entered vote.

Data communication

A method and apparatus is provided for moving content to a mobile device (). A data item () of a predetermined type is received at a first device (), the data item () including a content URI for fetching content associated with the data item. Upon detecting that the data item () is of the predetermined type, the first device () generates a symbol () representing at least: a local address of a content-retrieval device () on a local wireless network, and an explicit or implicit identifier of the content associated with the data item. The symbol () is then read using the mobile device (). The mobile device () decodes the symbol and transmits a request, containing the content identifier, to the content-retrieval device (). On receiving the request, the content-retrieval device () uses&#x2014;the content identifier in the request to obtain that content, and replies to the request with the obtained content.

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Bristol, United Kingdom

Timothy Kindberg