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US 2007/0171066 A1Published application
Security-enabled digital media and authentication methods thereof
AssigneeEdward Merritt
InventorsGene Fein, Edward Merritt
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Abstract
Embodiments of methods, devices and/or systems for security-enabled digital media and authentication methods thereof are described.
Claims23
A method, comprising:
- receiving an article of merchandise;
- detecting a signature associated with the article of merchandise;
- and
- authenticating said article of merchandise based, at least in part, on said detected signature.
1 more element
An apparatus, comprising:
- a security tag reader, adapted to:
- receive information from at least a portion of a plurality of security tags co-located with an article of merchandise;
- and
- access a database to authenticate said article of merchandise based, at least in part, on a comparison of said received information with data included in said database.
1 more element
An apparatus, comprising:
- means for detecting a signature associated with an article of merchandise;
- and
- means for authenticating said article of merchandise based, at least in part, on said detected signature.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.