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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 14, 2018
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Todd R. Whitman, Bethany, CT (US);

Aaron K. Baughman, Silver Spring, MD (US);

David Bastian, Addison, IL (US);

Nicholas McCrory, Sacramento, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 13/00 (2006.01); B25J 9/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/1674 (2013.01); B25J 9/1694 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for identifying a robotic. The method includes receiving an authentication request for an unknown robotic device asserting to be a first robotic device. The method further includes receiving a first identification dataset for the first robotic device. The method further includes issuing an identification action to the unknown robotic device. The method further includes generating a second identification dataset for the unknown robotic device based upon a response to the identification action received from the unknown robotic device. The method further includes in response to determining the first identification dataset matches the second identification dataset, determining that the unknown robotic device is the first robotic device. The method further includes authenticating the unknown robotic device in response to determining that the unknown robotic device is the first robotic device.


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