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1. A method for communicating product or service information to a potential purchaser, comprising:
scanning a product or an item describing a service to obtain both a product or service code that provides product or service information of a product or a service and an advertisement promotion code provided by a vendor/retailer or manufacturer of the product or service that provides a provides a monetary incentive for a first user to communicate information about the product or service, using a smartphone of the first user; generating a barcode by combining the product or service code and the advertisement promotion code with information from the smartphone associated with the product or service and with an advertiser code that uniquely identifies the first user, wherein the product or service code, the advertisement promotion code, the information from the smartphone associated with the product or service, and the advertiser code are encoded in the barcode, using the smartphone of the first user; and communicating the barcode to a communication device of a second user that is the potential purchaser of the product or service using a network, using the smartphone of the first user, so that when the communication device is presented to a point of sale (POS) terminal, the POS terminal
scans the barcode,decodes the barcode into the product or service code, the advertisement promotion code, the information from smartphone associated with the product or service, and the advertiser code, andcompensates the first user identified by the advertiser code according to the incentive described in the advertisement promotion code, after the second user purchases the product or service. |
