Patent ID: 6704864
Filing Date: 2004-03-09
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
A method of configuring software on a piece of configurable equipment, comprising the steps of:providing the piece of configurable equipment in communication with a 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 and as a function of reading a select one of the one or more machine-resolvable codes with the reader; downloading software associated with the select one of the one or more machine-resolvable codes from the remote location to the piece of configurable equipment; and configuring the piece of configurable equipment according to the downloaded software.