Patent ID: 7383319

Claim:
A method of enabling a user to access a remote location on a network using a code reader, comprising the steps of: transmitting one of a representation of a unique input code or a dedicated code from a code reader to a first user node disposed on the network, the code reader having an input code capturing system for capturing a representation of an input code, and a dedicated code system, including the steps of: the input code capturing system, in response to the code reader capturing the representation of the unique input code, sending to the first user node the captured representation of the unique input code indicative of information encoded in the unique input code; or the dedicated code system, in response to the user completing an activation sequence, sending to the first user node a representation of the dedicated code indicative of information relating to a particular remote location on the network, the information not originating from the receiving a representation of the unique code or related to the representation of the unique code, the representation of the dedicated code having no routing information contained therein; accessing, in response to the first user node receiving the one of the representation of the unique input code or the representation of the dedicated code from the code reader, a second node disposed on the network; performing a lookup operation at the second node to match the one of the representation of the unique input code or the representation of the dedicated code received from the code reader with routing information for a remote location on the network; returning the routing information from the second node to the first user node; and accessing the remote location on the network in accordance with the routing information returned from the second node.