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US 2016/0267311 A1Published application
System and method for identifying a genuine printed document
AssigneeMorton Greene
InventorMorton Greene
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Abstract
A system and method for verifying that a document is included in a document management system is disclosed. This system and method includes scanning of a scan track of a document, generating document data dependently upon the scanning, comparing the generated document data to stored document data, the stored document data generated dependently upon a prior scanning of the scan track of the document, and outputting an indication of the document being included in the document management system as determined by the comparing.
Claims1
A method for verifying that a ticket is included in a ticket management system, said method comprising:
- producing, in a secure manufacturing facility in accordance with a customer requirement, ticket material (base stock) containing a plurality of randomly distributed passive resonators positioned within each of a plurality of scan tracks, the scan tracks positioned to ensure at least a portion of at least one track will be included with each of a plurality of ticket blanks formed using the base stock;
- printing a non-variable visual element and a variable visible serial number on ones of a plurality of the ticket blanks, suitable for tickets to an event;
- directing an interrogation signal to individual ones of the ticket blanks, operative to cause resonators disposed within the scan track portions included therein to collectively emit a response signal specific to the individual ticket blank;
- deriving a random serial number from the response signal, and storing the random serial number in a database in association with the visible serial number printed on the ticket blank;
- providing one of the printed ticket blanks with stored random and visible serial numbers as a ticket to a ticket holder in a transaction, and storing transaction data in the database in association with the random and visible serial numbers of the ticket;
- presenting the ticket to a ticket interrogation device;
- directing, by the interrogation device, a confirmation interrogation signal similar to the previously directed interrogation signal to cause the resonators in the ticket to emit a confirmation signal;
- deriving a confirmation serial number from the confirmation signal;
- obtaining from the ticket the visual serial number;
- confirmation serial number and the visual serial number to the stored ticket random serial number and the stored visual serial number;
- and
- outputting an indication of the ticket being included in the ticket management system as determined by said comparing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.