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US 2019/0197377 A1Published application
Contextual Machine Readable Codes
AssigneePaypal, Inc.
InventorTodd Studnicka
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Abstract
Methods and systems for machine-readable codes that provide different information in response to different context and/or that age are disclosed herein. The codes described herein may be configured to provide different information depending on the age of the code, the day that the code was scanned, how the code was handled, and/or other factors. The code may include features that indicate an age of the code and the message determined by scanning the code may be different depending on the age of the code.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a non-transitory memory;
- and
- one or more hardware processors coupled to the non-transitory memory and configured to read machine-executable instructions from the non-transitory memory to cause the system to perform operations comprising:
- receiving a machine-readable code image, wherein the machine-readable code image comprises a first portion and a second portion;
- determining an age from the first portion;
- and
- reading, in response to determining the age, the second portion.
4 more elements
A method comprising:
- receiving data from a machine-readable code, wherein the machine-readable code comprises a first portion and a second portion;
- determining a date the data was received;
- based on the date, obtaining content from the first portion;
- and
- determining a message from the first portion based on the date.
2 more elements
A machine-readable code comprising:
- a first portion comprising a first machine-scannable image printed with a first type of ink;
- and
- a second portion comprising a second machine-scannable image printed with a second type of ink, wherein the first type of ink has a first aging rate and the second type of ink has a second aging rate different from the first aging rate, wherein the first portion comprises data that, when scanned, causes a first message to be generated, and wherein the second portion comprises data that, when scanned with the first portion, causes a second message to be generated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.