Patent ID: 7185824

Claim:
A method for associating pre-printed machine-readable graphical codes with electronically-accessible data, the method comprising: generating a sequence of reference identifiers; generating machine-readable graphical codes for the sequence of reference identifiers; printing labels that include the machine-readable graphical codes to provide pre-printed machine-readable graphical-code labels; placing one of the pre-printed machine-readable graphical-code labels on an object; scanning the pre-printed machine-readable graphical-code label; receiving graphical code data from a graphical code reading device in electronic communication with a computing device; determining a reference identifier of the graphical code data; accessing a database to look up the reference identifier; associating electronically-accessible data with the reference identifier by providing a user interface to associate electronically-accessible data with the reference identifier; scanning the pre-printed machine-readable graphical-code label; receiving the graphical code data from the graphical code reading device; determining the reference identifier of the graphical code data; accessing the database to look up the reference identifier; and accessing the electronically-accessible data identified by a data specifier associated with the reference identifier in the database.