Patent ID: 7516904

Claim:
A method of encoding and electronically storing at least one of personal, biometric or financial information within an electronic storage device so as to facilitate the use of the stored information from the storage device as part of an activity that utilizes at least some of the stored information, the method comprising the steps of: providing at least one of personal, biometric or financial information to be encoded; encoding the information into digital data; generating a two-dimensional matrix of digital data cells from the encoded information; and electronically storing the two-dimensional matrix of encoded information by electronically writing the two-dimensional matrix of encoded information to an electronic memory storage device as a data file usable for printing a two-dimensional bar code symbol and allowing access to the two-dimensional matrix data file to permit decoding of the two-dimensional matrix data file and information decoding for use in an activity without utilizing either of optical scanning and image capturing of a printed bar code symbol.