Physimetric authentication of physical object by digital identification (DID)

• US 20080143476A1
• Filed: 12/14/2006
• Published: 06/19/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Original Assignee: Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Inventors: Lee, Wing Bun, Cheung, Chi Fai, Ng, Pui Him, Kwok, Siu Keung, Tan, Burly K., Tsang, Hing Choi
• Application Number:
  US11/638,504
• Publication Number:
  US 20080143476A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/5.8
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07758 arrangements for adhering the record carrier to further objects or living beings, functioning as an identification tag
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/10 at least one kind of marking being used for authentication, e.g. of credit or identity cards verification of coded identity or credit cards in mechanisms actuated by them G07F7/12

Abstract

The present invention relates a scanable product made of a physical object and an ID Container, such ID Container possessing on its memory a Unique ID and a stored coded locking mechanism. The stored coded locking mechanism is generated by inputting physimetric property of the physical object and its Unique ID into hash functions to create an unintelligible code. Methods of making such a scanable product, and methods of authenticating a scanable product are also taught.

Claims

1. A scanable product, comprising

a physical object,

and an attached ID Container,

wherein said ID Container contains a Unique ID and coded locking mechanism.

2. The scanable product of claim 1, wherein said attached ID Container is non-permanent.

3. The scanable product of claim 1, wherein said coded locking mechanism is unintelligible.

4. The scanable product of claim 1, wherein said physical object can be selected from the group consisting of jewelry, pharmaceuticals, electronics, visual works, manufactured objects, or mined objects.

5. A method of making a scanable product, comprising

obtaining a physical object;

making an ID Container in accordance with the steps of a-f,

a) obtaining a Unique ID,

b) capturing the physimetric property of said physical object,

c) inputting said Unique ID and said physimetric property into a conversion algorithm,

d) generating a coded locking mechanism,

e) storing said Unique ID on the memory of said ID Container,

f) locking said ID Container with a coded locking mechanism,

and,

attaching said ID Container to said physical object.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein obtaining a physical object comprises manufacturing said physical object.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein obtaining a physical object comprising mining said physical object.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein obtaining a Unique ID comprises accessing a database.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein capturing said physimetric property comprises determining the physical properties of said physical object, coding said determined physical properties, and delivering said coded physical properties to a controlling device.

10. The method of claim 5, wherein generating said coded locking mechanism comprises using hash functions stored on the memory of a controlling device.

11. The method of claim 5, wherein storing said coded locking mechanism on said ID Container occurs through the use of password algorithms stored on the memory of a controlling device.

12. The method of claim 5, wherein attaching said ID Container to said physical object is non-permanent.

13. The method of authenticating a tagged product, comprising

entering a physical object with an ID Container possessing Unique ID and stored coded locking mechanism into a read zone;

reading information from said ID Container;

capturing the physimetric property of said physical object;

inputting said information of said physimetric property into conversion algorithm;

generating a coded locking mechanism;

attempting to unlock said ID Container;

and

determining whether said ID Container is authentic.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein reading information from said ID Container comprises reading the Unique ID stored on said ID Container.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein capturing the physimetric property of said physical object comprises utilizing a capturing device.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein generating a coded locking mechanism comprises using hash functions stored on the memory of a controlling device.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein said hash functions are based on Secured Hash Algorithms.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein attempting to unlock the ID Container comprises comparing the generated coded locking mechanism with an ID Container stored coded locking mechanism.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein said comparison occurs through comparison algorithms stored on said memory of said controlling device.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising

if said coded locking mechanism is equal to said ID Container stored locking mechanism, then passing said physical object through said read zone,

or

if said coded locking mechanism is not equal to said ID Container stored locking mechanism, then detaining said physical object.