US 7,118,040 B2 · Method and apparatus for bar code data interchange

Abstract

A new method and system for bar code data interchange includes a bar code scanner, such as a high scan rate LED scanner, and reads bar coded information from a video display. This bar coded information is scanned from the video display into a host device. The bar coded information may be sent to a user in a variety of ways, including over the Internet, any intranet, or any type of telephony network. The bar coded information may be viewed by the user on the video display as part of an e-mail message, as displayed on a web-page, or as displayed on television programming. The scanned bar coded information is decoded and may then be used. A first software program may have been used to create the bar coded information, and a second and distinct software application may be used with the now decoded bar coded information.

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Dependent claims

A method of using video displayed bar code data in bar code data interchange to exchange data between a first software application and a second software application, both executing on a computing device, the method comprising:

displaying an electronic document associated with the first software application on a video display associated with the computing device, the electronic document comprising a bar code;
decoding the bar code data into information;
using the information to populate a data field associated with the second software application executing on the computing device to thereby complete the data interchange from the first software application to the second software application.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Method and apparatus for bar code data interchange

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Method and apparatus for bar code data interchange

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Abstract

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