Patent ID: 6377986
Filing Date: 2002-04-23
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04H,H04L,H04N,Y10S

Abstract:
A routing string representative of a location on a global communication network of product source information associated with a product having a unique product code commercially associated with the product disposed thereon with encoded information contained therein regarding commercial information about the associated product that is utilized in standard retail commercial transactions, comprising:a first data field having disposed therein information representing the unique product code associated with a product that was obtained from a product; a second data field coupled with said first data field having disposed therein information representing the location of an intermediate node on a global communication network having a database contained thereat that has cross-reference information relating to an associative relationship between stored first data field information and routing information on the global communication network for product source information locations associated with a plurality of different products, each product associated with the database having a separate product source information location, which said stored first data field information can be compared to the information in said first data field to defme a routing path over the global communications network to the associated product source information location; and a third data field coupled with said first data field and said second data field representative of information relating to the transaction whereby said third data field was created including a unique input device ID; wherein the combination of said first data field, said second data field and said third data field provides a user of a computer routing access to said product source information location on the global communication network that is defined in said database.