Systems methods and computer program products for encoding and decoding transaction data

US8418920B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Intuit Inc. · US

Inventors

• Jonathan A. Lieberman · San Diego, US
• Ryan M. Steckler · San Diego, US
• Bennett Blank · San Diego, US
• Ronald J. Char · San Diego, US
• Justin C. Marr · San Diego, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 18, 2011
• Grant date: Apr 16, 2013
• Expiry date: May 2, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q90/00
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Tax data, e.g., Form W2 data, is encoded as a two-dimensional machine readable representation, such as a QR CODE. Certain tax data is encoded as segments of a QR CODE, and a tax form generated by an employer or payroll processing service and provided to an employee or user includes the QR CODE representing certain W-2 or other tax data. An image of the QR CODE is acquired using a camera of a mobile communication device or computer or other image capture device. When using a Smartphone, a tax preparation application executing on the Smartphone decodes the QR CODE image to determine the tax data, and populates fields of an electronic tax return with decoded data, thus allowing a consumer to prepare an electronic tax return using a mobile communication device.