	US 12,218,904 B2
	Network address compression for electronic devices
Reza Abbasian, Los Gatos, CA (US); Charles H. Ying, San Mateo, CA (US); and Steven J. Falkenburg, Los Altos, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 28, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/227,886.
Application 18/227,886 is a continuation of application No. 17/826,155, filed on May 26, 2022, granted, now 11,750,557.
Application 17/826,155 is a continuation of application No. 17/199,426, filed on Mar. 11, 2021, granted, now 11,374,901, issued on Jun. 28, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/083,015, filed on Sep. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0403253 A1, Dec. 14, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 61/301 (2022.01); H04L 101/672 (2022.01); G06F 16/955 (2019.01); H04L 101/604 (2022.01)

CPC H04L 61/301 (2013.01) [G06F 16/9566 (2019.01); H04L 2101/604 (2022.05); H04L 2101/672 (2022.05)]

21 Claims

1. A method, comprising:

scanning, using a camera of an electronic device, an object in a physical environment of the electronic device, wherein the object comprises an embedded visual representation of an encoded network identifier, wherein the encoded network identifier comprises characters, wherein the characters of the encoded network identifier are not included in the embedded visual representation, and wherein the object comprises a visual complexity capable of encoding a first number of bits;

extracting, at the electronic device, the encoded network identifier from the embedded visual representation;

decoding, at the electronic device, the encoded network identifier to obtain a network identifier having a domain, wherein the network identifier has a size corresponding to a second number of bits larger than the first number of bits, and wherein the encoded network identifier does not include domain information associated with any domain other than the domain of the network identifier; and

accessing, by the electronic device, a resource corresponding to the network identifier.