Patent ID: 7124953

Claim:
A system for establishing short range communication between digital devices, the system including: a first digital device having a first data processor, the first digital device being in communication with a display; a visual encoding application that is executed by the first data processor and comprises a computer readable storage medium having computer-readable program instructions embodied in the medium, the computer-readable program instructions include instructions for generating a visual code displayable on the display, wherein the visual code encodes an address of the first digital device and a storage location of a predetermined data element within the first digital device; a second digital device having a second data processor, the second digital device being in communication with an image capture device that captures the visual code from the display; and a visual decoding application that is executed by the second data processor and comprises a computer readable storage medium having computer-readable program instructions embodied in the medium, the computer-readable program instructions include instructions for decoding the captured visual code for establishing a wireless short-range communication link with the first digital device to access the predetermined data element.