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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2011
Jonathan A. Lieberman, San Diego, CA (US);
Ryan M. Steckler, San Diego, CA (US);
David M. Kanter, San Diego, CA (US);
Justin C. Marr, San Diego, CA (US);
Jonathan A. Lieberman, San Diego, CA (US);
Ryan M. Steckler, San Diego, CA (US);
David M. Kanter, San Diego, CA (US);
Justin C. Marr, San Diego, CA (US);
INTUIT INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
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.