Comment Digitalconvergence.com Patent (Score 3) 279
If anyone is interested, you can find the one and only Digitalconvergence.com patent here. The patent number is 6098106 and it was issued August 1, 2000. It covers using sound to link to a web site. IANAL, but it doesn't look like it covers bar codes.
As for bar codes, they really don't encode much information. The first part of the number is the company producing the product, and the last part is a unique identifier for the specific product (a green widget would have a different identifier than a red one). So really it's just a pointer or index that links into a database elsewhere. Forget any hopes of scanning your CD's and getting a song list from the barcode, unless you link it to a database that contains what you're looking for.
As for bar codes, they really don't encode much information. The first part of the number is the company producing the product, and the last part is a unique identifier for the specific product (a green widget would have a different identifier than a red one). So really it's just a pointer or index that links into a database elsewhere. Forget any hopes of scanning your CD's and getting a song list from the barcode, unless you link it to a database that contains what you're looking for.
