Patent ID: 11881956
Assignee: FABZING PTY LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 5:
6. A method for providing a connection from at least one portable physical object to a network location, wherein the at least one portable physical object includes an associated readable code, wherein the portable physical object is one or more of a fashion item, collectable, art object, limited edition or other specialised item, in a system comprising at least one portable computing device adapted to read the code and adapted to connect to the network location and a server associated with the network location, wherein a plurality of viewer groups are predefined for the code, each of the at least one portable computing device being associated with at least one of the plurality of viewer groups, the server is adapted to selectively provide one of a plurality of different communications defined for the code to the at least one portable computing device, at least some of the communications of the plurality of different communications containing information specific to the at least one portable physical object, at least some of the plurality of communications being associated with at least some of the plurality of viewer groups, and wherein an owner of the at least one portable physical object or other authorised person may add additional material to the server, so as to personalise or augment one or more of the communications of the plurality of different communications specific to the at least one portable physical object, wherein the one or more of the plurality of different communications augmented by the additional material is associated with certain of the plurality of predefined viewer groups;
the method including at least the steps of:
(a) reading the code, at the selected portable computing device, to allow access to information to assist in authenticating the portable physical object;
(b) generating, at the selected portable computing device, a request based on the code, and sending the request to the server;
(c) receiving the request, at the server;
(d) determining, at the server, whether the selected portable computing device is associated with a selected viewer group of the one or more of the plurality of predefined viewer groups;
(e) identifying a selected communication, of the plurality of communications, associated with the selected viewer group and the selected portable computing device; and
(e) in response to the identification, transmitting the selected communication to the selected portable computing device.