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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2012
Barnesandnoble.com Llc, New York, NY (US);
Matthew Pallakoff, Mountain View, CA (US);
Harold Edward Cohn, Incline Village, NV (US);
NOOK DIGITAL, LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method of associating an NFC tag to a product and transmitting information about the product are described. An electronic device is used to scan a generic NFC tag affixed to a product to obtain a unique ID code as well as other indicia identifying the product itself, such as a bar code. The unique ID and bar code are then transmitted to a central server, where they are associated with one another and stored in a database. Once associated, a customer may use a separate electronic device, such as a mobile phone or tablet, to scan a product of interest, transmit the unique ID code to the central server, and retrieve from the central server information about the product.