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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 11, 1996
Edward W Hutton, Jr, Columbia, SC (US);
NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH (US);
Abstract
A permanent electronic serial number unit for use with a network electronic device that includes a member having a machine readable pattern of unique identification information, a mechanism for propagating a read signal onto the member and a mechanism for detecting the read signal after it has been propagated to the member. The unit is preferable coupled to the processor of an electronic device connected to a network such that the electronic device may be identified by the network administrator. The unit may be positioned in the structural frame of an electronic device such that the same unique identification information is visible in a human readable form on the exterior of the frame.