ScanLife - Real Estate Shopping Got Easier
May 20, 2008 – 10:45 am 
ScanLife, an innovative company that takes virtually any camera phone and turns it into a scanner, has great potential for changing the way we shop for rentals and for sale properties. Currently, you can download the scanlife software on your phone, and the you can take pictures of anything that has a scanner code on it. Something similar to this:
Now imagine this. You are looking for a rental or a forsale property and are driving through various neighborhoods you are interested in. You see a home for sale and get out of your car to see if there are any flyers or more information. Of course, there is flyer box with no flyers. Here is what agents and property managers should do.
They should allow for scanner enabled phones to be able to scan the sign in the yard. The information of the property would then be delivered instantly to the recipient.
Presto. We save paper and give the potential buyer or renter much more information instantly.
One Response to “ScanLife - Real Estate Shopping Got Easier”
It should be noted that:
Scanbuy’s indirect resolution process, which they use for their proprietary EZcode, is infringing on NeoMedia Technologies’ core patents.
Scanbuy uses the indirect encoding method for their barcode resolution process.
Indirect encoding (patented by NeoMedia) is the process of linking the target information to an index (364528 for example) and putting that unique identifier into a 1D UPC/EAN or 2D barcode. The code reader on the mobile phone reads the barcode and sends the code data over the Internet to a central resolution server that will tell the mobile phone what action is associated with the index, i.e. access a URL, download media, initiate a phone call, ect.
NeoMedia Technologies has a suite of twelve issued patents covering the core concepts behind linking the physical world to the electronic world dating back to 1995. These patents cover various linkage methods including: Barcodes, RFID, Mag Stripe, Voice, and Other machine readable and keyed entry identifiers.
http://neom.com/13.html
NeoMedia brought suit against Scanbuy. Litigation has been ongoing.
By streetstylz on Jun 5, 2008