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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2015
Applicant:
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Michael Kuniavsky, San Francisco, CA (US);
Paula M. Te, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shantanu Rane, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER INCORPORATED, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 40/00 (2012.01); G06Q 30/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/0185 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method includes printing a readable and writeable memory on an object, using a seed to generate an original value, writing the original value to the memory, and sending the object to a recipient. The method may also include receiving the object at the recipient, determining the seed from a characteristic of the object, generating an authentication value using the seed value, and comparing the authentication value and the original value.