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PXT® Portal software enables your smartphone to function
just like a PXT® Transponder. It's still a phone, but now it's a transponder
too!
Content can be completely personal, all business, or anywhere in between.
What you communicate is entirely up to you. And you always communicate for
free. As with all PXT® products, there are NO monthly service fees or usage
charges of any kind.
With PXT® Portal software on your phone you can almost
think of yourself as a walking website.
Communicate wherever you go. Anyone within 30ft equipped with
PXT® Portal software can access your content - that is
if you allow them to access your content. You can easily create access control
lists that determine who can and cannot access your portal. If you
don't care - and we expect that most portal owners will not care - just
leave things alone and the content will be available to all probes within
a 30ft radius.
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See the site below created by a guy named Jay, as it might appear
to a PXT® Probe user who crossed paths with him
on Main Street in Pleasanton, CA:
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- Jay's site is visible to any Probe user within 30ft.
- It shows up like any of the fixed-position Transponders
on Main Street.
- Jay created a bicycle icon to reflect his passion for mountain
biking.
- Interested Probe users - information consumers
- can hit his site and find out about his biking, school activities,
his musical tastes, and even get his resume and contact information.
- Jay will not always be 30ft away. Any content viewed with
the Probe can be saved for future reference.
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Now look at things from Jay's perspective - that is from the
perspective of the information supplier. Check out the actual
PXT® Portal UI below and see what
Jay can tell about who is hitting his site and the information that
is being requested:
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- Total hit count is maintained as well as the time and date
associated with each hit.
- Universally unique Probe ID of the requestor is shown along
with specifically what information was requested.
- An optional audible alert sounds whenever the site is hit.
- With a single tap of the menu you can instantly Block or
Unblock access by a specific consumer, and there are easy controls
for managing the access control list as a whole.
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Just as with the PXT® Transponder you create the content
using ordinary Windows tools such as Wordpad and Paint on any USB-equipped
computer running Windows XP or Windows Vista. There are no special
authoring tools required. There are a few rules about what you can and cannot
do and all of this is explained in the user guide that accompanies the software
download.
Nutshell
- PXT® Portal software turns your smartphone into
a mobile PXT® Transponder.
- Information consumers running PXT® Probe software can access your
multimedia content whenever they are within 30ft of you.
- System requirements: Windows Mobile®, version 2003 SE or higher,
Microsoft Bluetooth® software stack.
- Ideal for social networking applications: on campus, on-the-job,
on the street, parties, crowds, events of all kinds.
- Good for business networking too: like your own walking website.
- No special content authoring tools - content can be created on any
computer running XP or Vista using basic tools like Wordpad and Paint.
- Access control capabilities enable you to determine who can sees
your content.
- Activity logs record all incoming information requests.
- Not dependent on the web, GPS, or any wireless carrier for service.
- No monthly service fees or usage charges of any kind.
- Multiple US Patents Pending.
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