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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2013
Applicant:
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Steven J Simske, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Mark Jacobsen, Galway, IE;
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 19/06 (2006.01); G06K 1/12 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06Q 10/08 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 1/12 (2013.01); G06F 17/30495 (2013.01); G06Q 10/087 (2013.01);
Abstract
An example method includes generating a set of identifiers for a mass serialization; associating one or more of the identifiers of the set of identifiers with an object; and storing the set of identifiers and an association of the one or more identifiers with an object. Each identifier in the set of identifiers may have a representation of at least two different characters. The representation of each identifier in the set may have a predetermined length, and a number of one of the characters in the representation may be within a predefined range.