Patent ID: 6792452
Filing Date: 2004-09-14
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04H,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
A method of configuring a piece of configurable equipment, comprising the steps of:providing a computer which is in communication with a network, the piece of configurable equipment interfaced to the computer and having one or more machine-resolvable codes associated therewith which machine-resolvable codes have an association stored at an intermediate location on the network with a network address of a remote location on the network and an association stored at the remote location with software with which to configure the configurable equipment; reading with a reader the machine resolvable codes; connecting the computer to the remote location disposed on the network, after first connecting to the intermediate location on the network to obtain the network address of the remote location, in response to and as a function of a select one of the one or more machine-resolvable codes being read with the reader; transmitting configuration information associated with the select one of the one or more machine-resolvable codes from the remote location to the computer; and configuring the piece of configurable equipment via the computer according to the received configuration information.