Patent ID: 8301516

Claim:
A method for consumer product database management, the method comprising: providing a capture station at a remote location; engaging a consumer product with the capture station, wherein the consumer product includes any tangible good that is purchased by a consumer in a retail environment; capturing product data from the consumer product using at least one input device, wherein the product data comprises at least one product image and at least one of graphics, bar codes, sounds, heights, lengths, depths, weights, text, nutritional information, ingredient lists, and metadata; transmitting the product data from the capture station to a home location; updating a database of consumer products with the product data resulting in an updated database of related consumer goods including at least one of groceries, food, health, beauty, electronics, household, apparel, hardware, compact discs, and books; and space management data coding and e-commerce data coding to provide a user with a resource for at least one of space management, advertising and e-commerce.