QR CODE DISPLAY OBJECT, METHOD OF SELLING QR CODES USING SAME AND METHOD OF PROVIDING INFORMATION THEREOF

• US 20140203085A1
• Filed: 05/17/2012
• Published: 07/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Byung H.O. Park
• Original Assignee: Byung H.O. Park
• Inventors: Park, Byung Ho
• Application Number:
  US14/232,676
• Publication Number:
  US 20140203085A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/462.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9554 by using bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/06037 multi-dimensional coding
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/1417 2D bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]

Abstract

Provided is a QR code display object which is manufactured with a quality capable of verifying recognition of various sizes of expanded/reduced QR codes in advance and can be commercially distributed.

The QR code display object displays the generated QR code in advance to be recognized from the outside, and provides an editing URL representing an editing website which is capable of editing information to be displayed on a reader when scanning the QR code, and an ID exhibiting authority to edit the information to be displayed when scanning the QR code in the editing URL.

Claims

1. A QR (Quick Response) code display object comprising:

a QR code that is generated in advance and is displayed to be externally recognizable;

an editing URL (Uniform Resource Locator) representing an editing website where information to be displayed in a reader when the OR code is scanned by the reader can be edited; and

an ID (Identification) representing authority to edit the information to be displayed in the reader when the OR code is scanned by the reader,

wherein example information for various types of information containable in the QR code is included in advance in the information to be displayed in the reader when the QR code is scanned by the reader.

2. The QR code display object as claimed in claim 1, wherein the editing URL is included in the QR code such that contents to be displayed in the reader when the QR code is scanned by the reader corresponds to an editing screen of the editing URL.

3. A method of selling a QR code by using the QR code display object as claimed in claim 1, the method comprising:

a selling step of distributing and selling the QR code display object;

an accessing step of accessing the editing URL by a purchaser of the QR code display object;

a logging-in step of logging-in to the editing website by using the ID; and

an editing and storing step of editing the information to be displayed in a reader when the QR code is scanned by the reader and storing the edited information.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein, in the editing and storing step, at least a part of example information included in advance and supplied by a seller as the information to be displayed in the reader when the QR code is scanned by the reader is set to be non-editable.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein, in the editing and storing step, at least a part of the information set to be non-editable is managed by the seller.

6. A method of providing information by using a QR code display object, the method comprising:

an approving step of obtaining a purchaser'"'"'s approval for authority to use information edited and stored by the purchaser in the editing and storing step as claimed in claim 3;

a collecting step of collecting the information for which the purchaser'"'"'s approval is obtained; and

a post-processing step of providing the collected information on the Internet.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein, in order to provide the collected information in the post-processing step, the QR code is displayed on the Internet.

8. A ready-made QR (Quick Response) code display object comprising:

a ready-made QR code that is generated for sales in advance, is displayed to be externally recognizable, and is commercially distributed and sold;

an editing URL (Uniform Resource Locator) that is provided separate from a URL representing information to be displayed in a reader when the OR code is scanned by the reader and represents an editing website provided for access of a purchaser of the QR code display object in order to edit and store the information to be displayed in the reader when the OR code is scanned by the reader; and

an ID (Identification) that is used to log-in to the editing URL and represents authority to edit the information, which is to be displayed in the reader when the OR code is scanned by the reader, in the editing URL.

9. The QR code display object as claimed in claim 8, wherein the editing URL is included in the QR code such that contents to be displayed in the reader when the QR code is scanned by the reader corresponds to an editing screen of the editing URL.

10. A ready-made QR (Quick Response) code display object comprising:

a ready-made QR code that is generated for sales in advance and is displayed to be externally recognizable;

an editing URL (Uniform Resource Locator) that is provided separate from a URL representing information to be displayed in a reader when the OR code is scanned by the reader and represents an editing website provided for access of an editor in order to edit and store the information to be displayed in the reader when the OR code is scanned by the reader; and

an ID (Identification) representing authority to edit the information, which is to be displayed in the reader when the OR code is scanned by the reader, in the editing URL,

wherein the information to be displayed in the reader when the QR code is scanned by the reader includes a list information showing a status of members of an area consisting of spatially divided units.

11. A ready-made QR (Quick Response) code display object comprising:

a ready-made QR code that is generated in advance and is displayed to be externally recognizable;

an editing URL (Uniform Resource Locator) that is provided separate from a URL representing information to be displayed in a reader when the OR code is scanned by the reader and represents an editing website provided for access of a purchaser of the QR code display object in order to edit and store the information to be displayed in the reader when the OR code is scanned by the reader; and

an ID (Identification) representing authority to edit the information, which is to be displayed in the reader when the OR code is scanned by the reader, in the editing URL,

wherein the ID comprises a temporary ID, whether or not the purchaser has a regular ID capable of accessing the editing URL for all QR codes possessed by the purchaser when the purchaser logs-in to the editing URL by using the ID is checked, the regular ID is generated when the purchaser does not have the regular ID, and then the temporary ID is connected with the regular ID.