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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2014
Applicant:
Hiti Digital, Inc., New Taipei, TW;
Inventor:
Cheng-Wei Liu, New Taipei, TW;
Assignee:
Hiti Digital, Inc., New Taipei, TW;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 1/00 (2006.01); G06K 15/00 (2006.01); B41J 2/175 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 15/407 (2013.01); B41J 2/17543 (2013.01);
Abstract
A consumable management method includes the following steps. A general consumable and an enabling key storage device are provided to a dealer. The general consumable includes an enabling chip. The enabling key storage device stores an exclusive enabling key. The dealer is instructed to use a burning tool to burn the exclusive enabling key into the enabling chip of the general consumable, so as to make the general consumable become an exclusive consumable, which is exclusively available to at least one first printing device that is only authenticated by the exclusive enabling key.