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US 8,712,873 B2Granted
System for and method of remotely auditing inventoried assets
AssigneeZortag, Inc.
InventorsSatya Prakash Sharma, Robert James Hart
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Abstract
A system and method for remotely auditing inventoried assets, particularly those financed by asset-based inventory lending, by capturing unique, non-clonable, auditing information with an interrogation device at an inventory location to indicate whether each asset is present or absent at the inventory location, and by sending inventory information about such assets based on the captured auditing information to an auditor.
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A method of remotely auditing inventoried assets, comprising:
- configuring auditing information for each asset as a random distribution of non-clonable elements by creating an auditing label for each asset with the non-clonable elements configured as a random distribution of three-dimensional light-modifying elements thereon as the auditing information;
- associating the auditing information with each asset by applying the auditing label on each asset;
- associating identification information with each asset by creating an identification label for each asset with the identification information thereon, and by applying the identification label on each asset;
- capturing the auditing information and the identification information from the auditing label and the identification label associated with each asset with an interrogation device at an inventory location;
- identifying each asset from the captured identification information at the inventory location;
- determining from the captured auditing information whether each identified asset is present or absent at the inventory location by verifying that the light-modifying elements on the auditing label are indeed three-dimensional;
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- sending to auditor inventory information about the assets based on the captured auditing information and the captured identification information.
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A system for remotely auditing inventoried assets, comprising:
- a label manufacturing facility creating an auditing label applied to each asset with auditing information configured as a random distribution of three-dimensional, non-clonable, light-modifying elements thereon, and creating an identification label applied to each asset and bearing identification information;
- an interrogation device capturing the auditing information, as well as the identification information, from the auditing label and the identification label associated with each asset at an inventory location;
- a server identifying each asset from the captured identification information at the inventory location, and determining from the captured auditing information whether each identified asset is present or absent at the inventory location by verifying that the light-modifying elements on the auditing label are indeed three-dimensional;
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- a report engine sending to auditor inventory information about the assets based on the captured auditing information determined by the server and the captured identification information identified by the server.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.