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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2001
Christian L. Struble, Boise, ID (US);
Robert Sesek, Boise, ID (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method are provided for facilitating the locating of lost or stolen articles. The method includes providing an article registry comprising one or more registered article identification information and associated owner preference information. The method also includes providing a lost article registry comprising one or more lost article identification information. The method further includes receiving a first article identification; and responsive to finding the first article identification in the lost article registry, transmitting the associated owner preference information. The system includes a security server which includes an article registry comprising one or more registered article identification information and associated owner preference information. The security server also includes a lost article registry comprising one or more lost article identification information. The security server further includes a module coupled to the article registry and the lost article registry and operable to receive an article identification information. The module is also operable to determine if the received article information is in the lost article registry and, to retrieve and transmit the owner preference information associated with the received article information in response to finding the received article identification information in the lost article registry.
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