System and method for identifying a genuine printed document

A method for verifying that a document is included in a document management system, the method comprising:

• producing in accordance with a customer requirement, material 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 document blanks formed using the material;
• printing a non-variable visual element and a variable visible serial number on ones of the plurality of the document blanks;
• directing an interrogation signal to individual ones of the document blanks, operative to cause resonators disposed within the scan track portions included therein to collectively emit a response signal specific to the individual document 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 document blank;
• providing one of the printed document blanks with stored random and visible serial numbers as a document to a document holder in a transaction, and storing transaction data in the database in association with the random and visible serial numbers of the document;
• presenting the document to a document interrogation device;
• directing, by the interrogation device, a confirmation interrogation signal similar to the previously directed interrogation signal to cause the resonators in the document to emit a confirmation signal;
• deriving a confirmation serial number from the confirmation signal;
• obtaining from the document the visual serial number;
• comparing the confirmation serial number and the visual serial number to the stored document random serial number and the stored visual serial number;
• and
• outputting an indication of the document being included in the document management system as determined by said comparing.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising program instructions for verifying that a document is included in a document management system, wherein execution of the program instructions by one or more hardware processors implement:

• producing in accordance with a customer requirement, material 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 document blanks formed using the material;
• printing a non-variable visual element and a variable visible serial number on ones of the plurality of the document blanks;
• directing an interrogation signal to individual ones of the document blanks, operative to cause resonators disposed within the scan track portions included therein to collectively emit a response signal specific to the individual document 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 document blank;
• providing one of the printed document blanks with stored random and visible serial numbers as a document to a document holder in a transaction, and storing transaction data in the database in association with the random and visible serial numbers of the document;
• presenting the document to a document interrogation device;
• directing, by the interrogation device, a confirmation interrogation signal similar to the previously directed interrogation signal to cause the resonators in the document to emit a confirmation signal;
• deriving a confirmation serial number from the confirmation signal;
• obtaining from the document the visual serial number;
• comparing the confirmation serial number and the visual serial number to the stored document random serial number and the stored visual serial number;
• and
• outputting an indication of the document being included in the document management system as determined by said comparing.

A system for verifying that a document is included in a document management system, said system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• computer-executable instructions stored on at least one memory and when executed by the one or more processors are configured to:
• produce in accordance with a customer requirement, material 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 document blanks formed using the material;
• print a non-variable visual element and a variable visible serial number on ones of the plurality of the document blanks;
• direct an interrogation signal to individual ones of the document blanks, operative to cause resonators disposed within the scan track portions included therein to collectively emit a response signal specific to the individual document blank;
• derive 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 document blank;
• provide one of the printed document blanks with stored random and visible serial numbers as a document to a document holder in a transaction, and storing transaction data in the database in association with the random and visible serial numbers of the document;
• present the document to a document interrogation device;
• direct, by the interrogation device, a confirmation interrogation signal similar to the previously directed interrogation signal to cause the resonators in the document to emit a confirmation signal;
• derive a confirmation serial number from the confirmation signal;
• obtain from the document the visual serial number;
• compare the confirmation serial number and the visual serial number to the stored document random serial number and the stored visual serial number;
• and
• output an indication of the document being included in the document management system as determined by said comparing.