Patent ID: 6622919
Filing Date: 2003-09-23
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
An Internet-based client-server transaction-enabling system for enabling information-related transactions over the infrastructure of the Internet, comprising:a remote http information server connected to the Internet, for storing information files associated with a transaction-enabling Java-Applet for use in enabling an information-related transaction over the Internet, said transaction-enabling Java-Applet comprising HTML Applet code and said information files; and an Internet-enabled client terminal for reading a bar code symbol encoded with said HTML Applet code and for downloading said information files from said remote http information server and executing said downloaded information files on said Internet-enabled client terminal, said Internet-enabled client terminal including a Java-enabled browser program for executing said information files associated with said transaction-enabling Java-Applet; a display screen for visually displaying one or more HTML-encoded documents generated during the execution of said information files on said Internet-enabled client terminal, a data entry means for entering data into said Internet-enabled client terminal, and a code symbol reader, operably connected to said Java-enabled browser program, for reading a bar code symbol encoded with said HTML Applet code, and producing data representative of said HTML Applet code and providing said produced data to said Java-enabled browser program for downloading said information files from said remote http information server to said Internet-enabled client terminal and executing said downloaded information files on said Internet-enabled client terminal to enable said information-related transaction, wherein, when said bar code symbol is read by said code symbol reader, produced data representative of said HTML Applet code is automatically produced and provided to said Java-enabled browser program, and whereupon said Java-enabled browser program automatically downloads said information files from said remote http information server and executes said downloaded information files on said Internet-enabled client terminal and thereby enables the user to conduct said information-related transaction over the Internet at said Internet-enabled client terminal.