Patent ID: 8123115
Filing Date: 2012-02-28
Classification: G06K,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a customer device configured to receive an RF signal from an RF chip via a first communication path, and responsively (i) start communicating with a communication network via a second separate communication path and (ii) send an enabling ID to the RF chip, the enabling ID uniquely identifying the customer device to the RF chip, the RF chip configured to transmit the RF signal to the customer device via the first communications path, receive the enabling ID from the RF chip, and store the enabling ID; and means for causing an entity associated with the RF chip to be financially compensated by a communication provider associated with the communication network for the network communications of the device triggered by the RF chip, based at least in part on the enabling ID, wherein the RF signal transmitted from the RF chip to the customer device via the first communications path comprises a link to information associated with a product to which the RF chip is attached.