System and Method of Enhancing Consumer Ability to Obtain Information Via Bar Codes

摘要

A system and method to use bar codes to facilitate obtaining information as to a product or service. A smart phone, with a downloaded scanning app. can scan a bar code associated with a product or service. Information can be extracted from the code by the phone and the scanning app. and forwarded automatically to a web server, via one or more computer networks. The server can analyze the information and extract other, responsive data from its data base. The responsive data can be downloaded to the scanning device for use with the product or service.