Patent ID: 6725260
Filing Date: 2004-04-20
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04H,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
A method of configuring a piece of configurable equipment, comprising the steps of:providing the piece of configurable equipment in communication with a communication network, the piece of configurable equipment 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 piece of configurable equipment 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 a select one of the one or more machine-resolvable codes being read with the reader; receiving configuration information associated with the select one of the one or more machine-resolvable codes transmitted from the remote location to the piece of configurable equipment; and configuring the piece of configurable equipment according to the received configuration information.