Patent ID: 9218610
Filing Date: 2015-12-22
Classification: G06F,G06K,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method to identify usage of quick response (QR) codes, the method comprising: inspecting, with a processor, a received request to identify a QR code associated with the request, the request being received from a device in response to a first instruction included in the QR code; determining, in response to the received request, a universal resource locator (URL) associated with the identified QR code, the URL identifying an address of a neutral monitoring server; and transmitting a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) document tagged with a second instruction to the device, the second instruction to instruct the device to transmit a dummy request to the neutral monitoring server identified by the URL, wherein the neutral monitoring server stores a record indicating access to the identified QR code but does not provide content to the device in response to the transmitted dummy request.