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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2024
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Spring, TX (US);
Kenneth Luke Kocienda, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Imran A. Chaudhri, San Francisco, CA (US);
Paul Miller, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ralph Brunner, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US);
Abstract
Embodiments are disclosed for device setup and configuration using an activation card. In some embodiments, a method comprises: sending an activation card to a user, the activation card for setting up or configuring a device for the user using an online service, the activation card including one or more codes; sending the device to the user; receiving activation data from the device, the activation data including or related to the one or more codes; and authenticating the user based on the activation data. In some embodiments, the activation card includes two codes: a smile code that encodes a numeric value in a picture printed on the activation card and an invisible code printed with invisible ink (e.g., IR ink) on the activation card using invisible ink.
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