Patent ID: 8752758

Claim:
A system for providing context-sensitive information to a user in response to a weighing device event/condition or a request for operational and/or configuration information, comprising: a weighing device having a display and a microprocessor, and programmed to generate and display a 2-D barcode in response to the weighing device event/condition or request for operational and/or configuration information; a scanning device having Internet connectivity and adapted to capture a digital image of the 2-D barcode presented on the display of the weighing device, the scanning device including a microprocessor and an associated scanning application that is adapted to decode the 2-D barcode; a hyperlink embedded in the 2-D barcode so as to cause the scanning device to request a 2-D barcode context-sensitive web page as directed by the hyperlink upon decoding of the 2-D barcode; a server for receiving a web page request from the scanning device; and an application on the server that, in response to receiving the web page request from the scanning device, is operative to retrieve the requested web page and transmit the web page to the scanning device for display to the user.