Patent ID: 7765126

Claim:
A method of connecting a user computing device to one of a plurality of remote information computers available for communication over a network comprising: a) scanning, with a bar code scanner, a bar code encoded with an index; b) transmitting, with a user computing device associated with the bar code scanner, the index to a remote server computer over the network; c) the remote server computer accessing, with the index, a database associated with the remote server computer, the database comprising a plurality of records that link an index to at least one Uniform Resource Locators which each identify a remote information computer on the network; d) the remote server computer extracting at least one Uniform Resource Locator from the database as a function of the index; e) the remote server computer returning the at least one Uniform Resource Locator to the user computing device over the network; and f) the user computing device using one of the at least one Uniform Resource Locators to establish communication directly with the remote information computer identified thereby.