Generating a hybrid quick response (QR) code

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9082052-B2
Application number	US-201314102902-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 11, 2013
Priority date	Dec 11, 2013
Publication date	Jul 14, 2015
Grant date	Jul 14, 2015

Abstract

An apparatus supporting hybrid quick response (QR) codes may include: a computer chassis; a dynamic display on the exterior of the computer chassis, the dynamic display configured to render dynamic QR code portions; and a static display that includes static QR code portions, where the static display is adapted to the chassis such that the static QR code portions and dynamic QR code portions rendered by the dynamic display comprise a single, hybrid scannable QR code.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus for generating a hybrid Quick Response (QR) code for a computer system, the apparatus comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions that, when executed by the computer processor, cause the apparatus to carry out the steps of:
identifying portions of a display that remain static for each of a plurality of QR codes, where each of the plurality of QR codes represents one of a plurality of error codes; and
generating a static display that comprises each of the identified static portions.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising computer program instructions that, when executed by the computer processor, cause the apparatus to carry out the steps of:
printing a static QR code display that includes the static portions;
adhering the static QR code display to an area proximate to a dynamic display of a computer system;
utilizing the dynamic display of the computer system to display dynamic portions of a QR code, wherein the dynamic portions and the static portions comprise a single, hybrid QR code.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein:
printing the static QR code display includes printing a sticker that includes the static portions.

4. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein:
adhering the static QR code display to an area proximate to a dynamic display of a computer system comprises adhering the static QR code so that a plurality of static portions border at least one side of the dynamic display of the computer system.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein:
the error codes comprise a plurality of predefined error codes assigned to errors and a plurality of error codes reserved for assignment to errors.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein identifying portions of a display that remain static for each of a plurality of QR codes further comprises:
identifying the plurality of error codes capable of being displayed as a QR code including:
determining a number of error codes to be displayed;
identifying a range of Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) for the identified number of error codes to be displayed; and
identifying a number of QR code permutations for the range of URLs.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein:
the static portions of the static display comprise unique, scannable QR code.

8. An apparatus supporting hybrid quick response (QR) codes, the apparatus comprising:
a computer chassis;
a dynamic display on the exterior of the computer chassis, the dynamic display configured to render dynamic QR code portions; and
a static display comprising static QR code portions, the static display adapted to the chassis such that the static QR code portions and dynamic QR code portions rendered by the dynamic display comprise a single, hybrid scannable QR code.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the static QR code portions of the static display comprise a unique, scannable QR code.

10. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the apparatus comprises a rackmount server.

11. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the apparatus comprises a blade server.

Assignees

• Lenovo Entpr Solutions Singapore Pte Ltd

Inventors

• Rodriguez Adrian X
• Soto Felicia N

Classifications

• G06K19/06037 Primary

  multi-dimensional coding · CPC title

• G06K19/06112

  the marking being simulated using a light source, e.g. a barcode shown on a display or a laser beam with time-varying intensity profile · CPC title