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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2012
Applicants:
Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami, Wilton, NY (US);
Umut Topkara, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Inventors:
Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami, Wilton, NY (US);
Umut Topkara, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Assignee:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/08 (2006.01); G06K 19/06 (2006.01); G06K 19/073 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 19/06037 (2013.01); G06K 19/06075 (2013.01); G06K 19/07318 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of disseminating a message is disclosed. The message is encoding in a barcode. A selected region of the barcode is damaged so as to hinder decoding of the message at a scanning device. The damaged region of the barcode may be occluded from the scanning device in order to enable the scanning device to read the barcode and the message therein.