Method and apparatus using verifiable data destruction procedure to initiate removal of supply chain transaction
AssigneeProtocall Technologies
InventorsElliot David Klugman, Bruce Newman, Michael Polesky, Michael Blumenthal, Aaron Knoll
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Abstract
A method and system for implementing a secure return policy of supply chain for digitally stored products. The method and system verifies whether each product for return originated within the supply chain. If the product did originate within the supply chain and qualifies for return under the supply chain's return policy, the data existing on the physical media is securely rendered unusable. A record of the destruction allows for a reversal of the entire transaction within the supply chain.
Claims36
A system for returning a digitally stored product and removing said digitally stored product from a supply chain transaction, comprising:
- (a) means for identifying a digitally stored product as originating from a supply chain;
- (b) means for receiving said digitally stored product identified for return including means for confirming said digitally stored product in said means for receiving is said product identified in (a);
- (c) means for voiding a transaction of sale of said product for return from a transaction log of said supply chain;
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- (d) means for rendering said product for return unusable, wherein said product for return is a non-erasable optical medium—and said means for rendering physically destroys said product for return.
A method for returning a digitally stored product and removing said digitally stored product from a supply chain transaction, the steps comprising:
- (a) identifying a digitally stored product as originating from a supply chain;
- (b) receiving said digitally stored product identified for return including means for confirming said digitally stored product in said means for receiving is said product identified in (a);
- (c) voiding a transaction of sale of said product for return from a transaction log of said supply chain;
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- (d) rendering said product for return unusable, wherein said product for return is a non-erasable optical medium and said voiding step includes physically destroying the product.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.