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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2009
Applicant:
Eric Lauper, Bern, CH;
Inventor:
Eric Lauper, Bern, CH;
Assignee:
Swisscom AG, , CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method is disclosed with which a terminal () can retrieve information associated to an EPC code from an EPC network (). The EPC code is virtual, is generated independently of RFID tags and is stored permanently and is not—or not permanently—associated to an RFID tag. A terminal () sends a message with the EPC code over a telecommunication network () to an object name server (), the server () replies with the address of the desired PML page and the terminal () access the content of said PML page. The invention also relates to a corresponding device.