System and method for storing digitally printable security features used in the creation of secure documents

• US 10,279,583 B2
• Filed: 02/27/2015
• Issued: 05/07/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ctpg Operations LLC
• Original Assignee: Ctpg Operations LLC
• Inventors: Delaney, Robert, Turner, Kyle
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Dung D
• Application Number:
  US14/634,105
• Publication Number:
  US 20150249770A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,530 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: B41F 19/02 with embossing
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 2/325 by selective transfer of ink from ink carrier, e.g. from ink ribbon or sheet
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 3/38 for embossing, e.g. for making matrices for stereotypes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/44 Program or device authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/602 Providing cryptographic facilities or services
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/608 Secure printing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1222 Increasing security of the print job
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1236 Connection management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1238 Secure printing, e.g. user identification, user rights for device usage, unallowed content, blanking portions or fields of a page, releasing held jobs
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1259 Print job monitoring, e.g. job status
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1273 Print job history, e.g. logging, accounting, tracking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1285 Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1288 in client-server-printer device configuration
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1293 Printer information exchange with computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1294 Status or feedback related to information exchange
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/028 by thermal printers
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/4095 Secure printing computer driven secure printing G06F3/1238
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00204 with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/3232 Robust embedding or watermarking
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0082 Image hardcopy reproducer H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3269 : of machine readable codes or marks, e.g. bar codes or glyphs

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system and method for storing digitally printable security features used in the creation of secure documents and, more particularly, to a system and method for storing incomplete portions of digitally printable security features (used in the creation of secure documents) on different devices/systems, and for merging the incomplete portions to form a fully formed complete security feature for printing by a printer.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a printer comprising a memory;

a first computer with a memory, wherein the first computer is connected to the printer; and

a second computer with a memory, wherein the second computer is connected to the printer;

wherein;

at least two of the printer memory, the first computer memory, and the second computer memory each storing a separate incomplete sub-portion of a first complete security feature, stored therein, wherein the first complete security feature is formed from the entirety of each separate incomplete sub-portion, the first complete security feature having a predetermined appearance prior to storing the separate incomplete sub-portions, the predetermined appearance of the first complete security feature having a form to denote a document, upon which the first security feature is printed, as authentic;

at least one of the printer, the first computer, and the second computer comprises a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having program code for merging the separate incomplete sub-portions of the first complete security feature to form the first complete security feature according to the predetermined appearance; and

the printer comprises a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having program code for printing the formed first complete security feature on a substrate.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the printer comprises the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having program code for merging the separate incomplete sub-portions of the first complete security feature to form the first complete security feature.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said printer is a thermal printer.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein said printer is a thermal transfer printer.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprises program code for merging said first complete security feature with variable data on the substrate in real time.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprises program code for merging said first complete security feature with variable data on the substrate.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein said variable data comprises variable data selected from the group consisting of receipt data, check data, financial data, identification data, contract data, ownership data, legal data, government data, prescription data, medical/healthcare data, public safety data, permit data, ticket data, and label data.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein said first complete security feature comprises a security feature selected from the group consisting of pantographs, watermarks, microprinting, verification grids, validation marks, color, uv marks, IR marks, barcodes, serial numbers, and anti-copying marks.

9. A method of forming a first complete security feature from separate incomplete sub-portions of the first complete security feature, the method comprising the steps of:

providing a printer comprising a memory, a first computer with a memory connected to the printer, and a second computer with a memory connected to the printer;

storing a separate incomplete sub-portion of a first complete security feature, in at least two of the printer memory, the first computer memory, and the second computer memory, wherein the first complete security feature has a predetermined appearance prior to storing the incomplete sub-portions, the predetermined appearance of the first complete security feature having a form to denote a document, upon which the first security feature is printed, as authentic;

merging the separate incomplete sub-portions of the first complete security feature to form the first complete security feature, wherein the first complete security feature is formed from the entirety of each separate incomplete sub-portion according to the predetermined appearance; and

printing the formed first complete security feature on a substrate.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising the step of receiving, at the printer, at least one incomplete sub-portion of the first complete security feature from at least one of the first computer and the second computer.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the step of merging is performed by the printer.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising the step of merging said first complete security feature with variable data on the substrate.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the step of merging said first complete security feature with variable data is performed in real time.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein said first complete security feature comprises a security feature selected from the group consisting of pantographs, watermarks, microprinting, verification grids, validation marks, color, uv marks, IR marks, barcodes, serial numbers, and anti-copying marks.