Patent ID: 9177325
Filing Date: 2015-11-03
Classification: G06F,G06K,G06Q,G08B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for communicating product or service information to a potential purchaser through one or more smartphones, comprising: downloading a first application from a server to a first smartphone of a first user, wherein the first application allows the first smartphone of the first user to scan a product or an item describing a service to obtain both a product or service code that provides product or service information of a product or a service and an advertisement promotion code provided by a vendor/retailer or manufacturer of the product or service that provides a monetary incentive for a first user to communicate information about the product or service, wherein the first application registers the first user with a first advertiser code that uniquely identifies the first user; generating a first barcode, using the first application, by combining the product or service code and the advertisement promotion code with information from the first smartphone associated with the product or service and with the first advertiser code, wherein the product or service code, the advertisement promotion code, the information from the first smartphone associated with the product or service, and the first advertiser code are encoded in the first barcode, using the first smartphone of the first user; and communicating the first barcode to a second smartphone of a second user that is the potential purchaser of the product or service using a network, using the first application on the first smartphone of the first user, wherein the second smartphone of the second user downloads a second application that registers the second user with a second advertiser code that uniquely identifies the second user, and, using the second application, encodes the first barcode and the second advertiser code into a second barcode and sends the second barcode to a third smartphone of a third user that is a second potential purchaser of the product or service using the network, wherein when the third smartphone of the third user is presented to a point of sale (POS) terminal, the POS terminal scans the second barcode, decodes the second barcode into the product or service code, the advertisement promotion code, the information from the first smartphone associated with the product or service, the first advertiser code and the second advertiser code, and compensates the first user identified by the first advertiser code and compensates the second user by the second advertiser code according to the incentive described in the advertisement promotion code, after the third user purchases the product or service.