# US 2022/0284445 A1 · Apparatus for customer authentication of an item

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- Number: US 2022/0284445 A1
- Document ID: US20220284445A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 17/664,704
- Filed: 2022-05-24
- Published: 2022-09-08
- Earliest claimed: 2005-03-16
- Assignees: Dt Labs, LLC
- Applicants: DT Labs, LLC
- Inventors: Douglas Peckover
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20220284445A1

## CPC

- G06Q 30/018: Certifying business or products
- G06F 21/10: Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material (protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16) {; Digital rights management [DRM]}
- G06F 21/6254: {by anonymising data, e.g. decorrelating personal data from the owner's identification}
- G06F 21/73: by creating or determining hardware identification, e.g. serial numbers
- G06F 21/78: to assure secure storage of data (address-based protection against unauthorised use of memory G06F12/14; record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings G06K19/00)
- G06Q 30/0185: {Product, service or business identity fraud}
- H04L 63/08: {for authentication of entities (cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32)}
- H04L 63/12: {Applying verification of the received information (cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for data integrity or data verification H04L9/32)}
- G06F 2221/2101: Auditing as a secondary aspect
- G06F 2221/2117: User registration
- G06F 2221/2129: Authenticate client device independently of the user
- G06Q 10/08: Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management
- G06Q 10/0833: Tracking
- G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)
- H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M)

## Abstract

An apparatus is provided for authentication of an item or a label by storing unique random serial numbers or codes in a remote secure storage that can be used to authenticate the item or the label, generating a pointer to each stored unique random serial number/code and storing the generated pointer(s) in a client data storage. During or prior to a production run of the item(s) or label(s): the generated pointer(s) are sent from the client data storage to one or more media devices, the generated pointer(s) are obtained from the media device using a post-content manager, the unique random serial number(s)/code(s) are obtained from the server via the post-content manager using the generated pointer(s), the obtained unique random serial number(s)/code(s) are sent to the media device, and the received unique random serial number(s)/code(s) are imprinted on the item(s) or the label(s) using the media device.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A system for authentication of labeled articles comprising:
a first computer system including a processor communicably coupled to a memory storing a first set of non-transitory computer readable instructions, which instructions of the first set of non-transitory computer readable instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor, during or prior to production of the labelled article, to perform the steps of:
receiving a pointer to each of a plurality of unique serial numbers or codes that are used to authenticate the labelled articles,
obtaining the unique serial numbers or codes from a storage location using the pointers, and
provide the unique random serial numbers or codes to a media device responsive to a request for the unique random serial numbers or codes; and
the media device operating according to a second set of non-transitory computer readable instructions, which second set of non-transitory computer readable instructions, when executed by the media device, cause the media device to obtain the unique random serial numbers or codes from the processor using the pointers, and to imprint the received unique random serial numbers or codes on the labelled articles.