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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2005
Bill Serra, Montara, CA (US);
Salil Pradhan, San Jose, CA (US);
Vinay Deolalikar, Mountain View, CA (US);
Geoff Lyon, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Jorge Badillo, Rincon, PR (US);
Alipio Caban, Arecibo, PR (US);
Bill Serra, Montara, CA (US);
Salil Pradhan, San Jose, CA (US);
Vinay Deolalikar, Mountain View, CA (US);
Geoff Lyon, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Jorge Badillo, Rincon, PR (US);
Alipio Caban, Arecibo, PR (US);
HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A path-based identifier is provided. An entity identifier is generated at an entity of a supply chain and the entity identifier is based on a reliability of the entity of the supply chain at which the entity identifier is generated. In addition, an updated path-based identifier is stored based on a predetermined function, where the entity identifier is an input to the predetermined function.