Patent ID: 8271650

Claim:
A computer-implemented method comprising: identifying, via a processor, an entity making a request for a resource associated with a network address, wherein the entity has extracted the network address from a machine readable code; serving the resource to the entity in response to the request; and determining if request is not abusive, and only if the request is not abusive sending a notification to a user associated with the resource that the resource has been accessed, wherein the determining if the request is not abusive is selected from the group consisting of: determining that a number of requests made by the entity during a predefined period of time is below a first predefined threshold number of requests, determining that a number of requests made by the entity from a predefined geo-region is below a second predefined threshold number of requests, and determining that a number of requests made by the entity during a predefined date and time is below a third predefined threshold number of requests.