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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.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2015

Filed:

Jan. 18, 2012
Applicant:

Jason Barrie Morley, Cambridge, GB;

Inventor:

Jason Barrie Morley, Cambridge, GB;

Assignee:

RealVNC Ltd., Cambridge, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/445 (2006.01); G06F 21/12 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/65 (2013.01); G06F 8/61 (2013.01); G06F 21/125 (2013.01); G06F 2221/0742 (2013.01);
Abstract

We describe a method of activating functionality of an item of software installed on a mobile device, the method comprising: installing said software on said mobile device, wherein said installing includes registering in an operating system of said mobile device a link between an application URI scheme and said software such that a URI having said application URI scheme will be passed to said installed software for processing; scanning a code into said mobile device, wherein said code includes a code URI comprising said application URI scheme and activation data for said item of software; interpreting said application scheme of said code URI using said registered link to pass said code URI to said installed software; and processing said code URI using said installed software to activate a function of said item of software using said activation data in said code URI.


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