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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2005
David Deas Sinkler Poor, Meadowbrook, PA (US);
David Deas Sinkler Poor, Meadowbrook, PA (US);
CTB McGraw-Hill, Monterey, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system to link an article such as a publication to supplemental content through the use of an RFID tag embedded or attached to the article. Based on the electronic data within the RFID tag, a computer system or other network enabled device obtains specific and appropriate supplemental content for the publication or for a specific copy of a the publication. While the primary application of the invention deals with printed publications, connecting to a server as the source of the supplemental content via a network or the internet, and displaying supplemental content through a standard browser, the system and method can be advantageously used to obtain supplemental content for a variety of documents or objects and the content can be obtained from a variety of sources.