Patent ID: 8484362

Claim:
A method of accessing one or more remote locations on a network by sensing a machine-resolvable code, comprising the steps of: providing a first computer disposed on the network, the first computer being interfacable to an input device for sensing a machine-resolvable code proximate a first location, the first computer running a software application which includes a non IP address, software identification code unique to the software application and unrelated to the machine resolvable code having an association with at least one of the one or more remote locations, wherein the non IP address, software identification code identifies the software application and wherein the software application identified by the non IP address, software identification code can run on multiple computers at different locations on the network; accessing with the first computer a second computer disposed on the network in accordance with routing information provided by the first computer and in response to sensing by the input device the machine-resolvable code proximate the first location; transferring to the second computer from the first computer at least the non IP address, software identification code; storing in an associative database at the second computer associations between non IP address, software identification codes and ones of the one or more remote locations and operable to have routing information associated with each of the one or more remote locations; performing a lookup operation at the second computer to match the non IP address, software identification code with the associated at least one of the one or more remote locations in accordance with the stored associations to obtain associated remote routing information corresponding to the associated at least one of the one or more remote locations; returning to the first computer from the second computer the remote routing information of the at least one of the one or more remote locations determined at the second computer to correspond to the non IP address, software identification code that was transferred from the first computer to the second computer; and accessing with the first computer the associated at least one of the one or more remote locations according to the returned remote routing information to retrieve remote information from the one of the one or more remote locations associated with the returned remote routing information.