Patent ID: 8708224

Claim:
A system comprising: at least one monitor adapted to retrieve and display images from a web server; the images containing one or more barcodes encoding, in part, a network address of the web server and a unique identifier of the monitor; and at least one mobile device having wireless network access, comprising: a camera adapted to scan the one or more barcodes; a software adapted to decode each of the one or more barcodes scanned with the camera, and adapted to retrieve information from the web server address obtained from the barcodes; where the information includes web pages and streaming audio; and hardware adapted to play streaming audio and to display web pages; where the mobile device uses the web page to control the contents of the monitor; where the mobile device uses the web page to alter one or more of the type of barcode encoding, the locations of the barcodes, the resolutions of the barcodes, the duration of the altered barcodes, on the monitor.