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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:
Sep. 03, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2012
Applicants:
Wai Hong Tam, Taipei, TW;
Tammo Spalink, Taipei, TW;
Inventors:
Wai Hong Tam, Taipei, TW;
Tammo Spalink, Taipei, TW;
Assignee:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/10 (2006.01); G06K 7/00 (2006.01); G06K 19/06 (2006.01); G06K 7/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method is disclosed for automatically providing information to a newly-manufactured computing device. During the manufacture of a new computing device at an assembly line, a camera integrated with the computing device is automatically activated as a barcode scanner. On the camera viewing a barcode that includes device-specific configuration information, the barcode is read by the computing device to read the device-specific configuration information for storage in a non-volatile memory of the device.