Patent ID: 9235571
Filing Date: 2016-01-12
CPC Classification: G06F,G06K

Claim Text:
1. A method for capturing and evaluating data of interest to a user, comprising: automatically scanning a user environment by a mobile imaging device for one or more tags containing non-human-readable data without the mobile imaging device being specifically directed at a particular tag owned by an owner; identifying a tag, via the mobile imagining device, within the user environment that satisfies one or more user preferences; identifying, via the mobile imaging device, a third party associated with one of the identified tag, the user, and the owner; determining, via the mobile imaging device, an action associated with the identified tag; performing the action by a computing device associated with the mobile imaging device; and transmitting information to the third party related to the user that notifies the third party that the identified tag satisfied the one or more user preferences of the user.