Patent ID: 7558838

Claim:
A method of configuring a piece of configurable equipment, comprising the steps of: providing a computer which is in communication with a network, the piece of configurable equipment interfaced to the computer and 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 routing information of a remote location on the network and an association stored at the remote location with software associated with the operation of the configurable equipment; obtaining a representation of the one or more machine resolvable codes; connecting the computer to the remote location disposed on the network, after first connecting to the intermediate location on the network to obtain the routing information of the remote location, in response to and as a function of a representation of a select one of the one or more machine-resolvable codes being obtained; transmitting information associated with the software that is associated with the select one of the one or more machine-resolvable codes from the remote location to the computer; and altering the operation of the piece of configurable equipment via the computer according to the received information.