Reactive tags for obtaining consumer survey responses

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9147205-B2
Application number	US-201213811643-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 5, 2012
Priority date	Jun 5, 2012
Publication date	Sep 29, 2015
Grant date	Sep 29, 2015

Abstract

Technologies are generally described for obtaining consumer survey responses encoded on a reactive tag associated with an item. Prior to distributing a product to consumers, a manufacturer may affix a reactive tag to the item for gathering consumer feedback about the product. Consumer survey questions and responses may be encoded on the reactive tag, and the consumer may be able to remove a portion of the tag in order to select a consumer survey response. The reactive tag may be configured to react to the removal of a portion of the reactive tag by encoding data on the reactive tag for the consumer response and/or changing a physico-chemical state of the reactive tag for storing the consumer survey responses. When the consumer has finished with the product, the product may be received at a recycling facility, where a machine may scan the reactive tag to retrieve consumer survey responses.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method to obtain consumer information through a reactive tag, the method comprising:
encoding a two-dimensional matrix code in a series of dots on the reactive tag, wherein each dot of the two-dimensional matrix code is a removable label that corresponds to one or more customer survey responses;
receiving selection of the one or more customer survey responses through manual actions;
in response to selection of the one or more customer survey responses…

Assignees

• Kruglick Ezekiel
• Empire Technology Dev Llc

Inventors

• Kruglick Ezekiel

Classifications

• G06K19/067

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06K19/06196

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06K19/06009

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06K7/00

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06K19/02

  Physics · mapped topic