Patent ID: 9256774
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: G06K,G06Q,H04M,H04N,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A non-transitory, computer readable medium storing computer-executable instructions thereon that when executed by a computer processor cause the computer processor to: receive a short message service (“SMS”) message comprising an electronic consent for receiving at least one subsequent communication, the message sent by a camera-equipped mobile phone in response to reading a two dimensional barcode (“2D Barcode”) provided on an advertisement associated with an advertising campaign, wherein the 2D Barcode is encoded to indicate an action to be performed by the camera-equipped mobile phone, the action comprising transmitting text data encoded by the 2D Barcode uniquely identifying the advertising campaign and requesting a subsequent communication associated with a product or service indicated by the advertisement; identify an originating telephone number associated with the SMS message; determine a campaign identifier by analyzing the text data uniquely identifying the advertising campaign in the SMS message, wherein the campaign identifier identifies the advertising campaign; store in a database the text data, the originating telephone number, the campaign identifier, and a received date indicating when the SMS message was received as proof of receiving the electronic consent; receive a request for proof of the electronic consent, wherein the request for proof originates from a computer processing system in a call center and the request is associated with the originating telephone number; and in response to receiving the request: