NeoMedia Technologies, Inc (NEOM)

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Jeff, from announcemobile.com, said:

"With Qode the power of the patents is that it controls how the “dynamic response” from the server to the individual code is handled. The power of the patent is the process for which this is done...

"Lastly, someone e-mailed us and asked us to again differentiate between making a code dynamic through the use of redirects at the server level and the qode application. AGAIN, YES you could make redirects at the server level to change the function of the code. That is not the point. To do so requires a system administrator to go in and make the change. A function not typical of a marketing department within a corporation. With qode the change can be made from a user-friendly WEB-BASED interface that marketing-departments will have access to."

So basically Jeff (presumably a Qode licensee?) is asserting that Neomedia's value-added, a value protected by patents, is some "user-friendly" web application that makes redirecting the webpage a mobile barcode resolves to easier.

Wow, NEOM's patent protected, value-added approach is worth .. ummm .. a lot less than five million, in my opinion.

It is no wonder why NEOM cannot attract traditional sources of venture capital -- opposed to the vulture capital they're so fond of dealing with -- the company's highly touted intellectual property is far from earth shattering. In fact it is down right pedestrian, assuming Jeff is correctly conveying the "patent power".

Here are some ways to accomplish what NEOM's patent covers without violating it. I mean this stuff is really amateur level stuff and general can be accomplished via the cPanel of most quality web hosts.


How to Redirect a Web Page

http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php

301 Redirect

301 redirect is the most efficient and Search Engine Friendly method for webpage redirection. It's not that hard to implement and it should preserve your search engine rankings for that particular page. If you have to change file names or move pages around, it's the safest option. The code "301" is interpreted as "moved permanently".

You can Test your redirection with Search Engine Friendly Redirect Checker

Below are a Couple of methods to implement URL Redirection

IIS Redirect

* In internet services manager, right click on the file or folder you wish to redirect
* Select the radio titled "a redirection to a URL".
* Enter the redirection page
* Check "The exact url entered above" and the "A permanent redirection for this resource"
* Click on 'Apply'

ColdFusion Redirect
<.cfheader statuscode="301" statustext="Moved permanently">
<.cfheader name="Location" value="http://www.new-url.com">

PHP Redirect
<?
Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
Header( "Location: http://www.new-url.com" );
?>

ASP Redirect
<%@ Language=VBScript %>
<%
Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently";
Response.AddHeader("Location","http://www.new-url.com/");
%>

ASP .NET Redirect
<script runat="server">
private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently";
Response.AddHeader("Location","http://www.new-url.com");
}
</script>

JSP (Java) Redirect
<%
response.setStatus(301);
response.setHeader( "Location", "http://www.new-url.com/" );
response.setHeader( "Connection", "close" );
%>

CGI PERL Redirect
$q = new CGI;
print $q->redirect("http://www.new-url.com/");

Ruby on Rails Redirect
def old_action
headers["Status"] = "301 Moved Permanently"
redirect_to "http://www.new-url.com/"
end

Redirect Old domain to New domain (htaccess redirect)

Create a .htaccess file with the below code, it will ensure that all your directories and pages of your old domain will get correctly redirected to your new domain.
The .htaccess file needs to be placed in the root directory of your old website (i.e the same directory where your index file is placed)

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Please REPLACE www.newdomain.com in the above code with your actual domain name.

In addition to the redirect I would suggest that you contact every backlinking site to modify their backlink to point to your new website.

Note* This .htaccess method of redirection works ONLY on Linux servers having the Apache Mod-Rewrite moduled enabled.

Redirect to www (htaccess redirect)

Create a .htaccess file with the below code, it will ensure that all requests coming in to domain.com will get redirected to www.domain.com
The .htaccess file needs to be placed in the root directory of your old website (i.e the same directory where your index file is placed)

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^domain.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

Please REPLACE domain.com and www.newdomain.com with your actual domain name.

Note* This .htaccess method of redirection works ONLY on Linux servers having the Apache Mod-Rewrite moduled enabled.