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Automated processing device and equipment lockdown

  • US 20080147953A1
  • Filed: 12/19/2006
  • Published: 06/19/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2006
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A peripheral device connection interface couplable to a processing device and one or more peripheral devices, the peripheral device connection interface including:

  • a Radio Frequency Identification (“

    RFID”

    ) chip reader;

    a RFID chip configuration module that stores codes of RFID chips authorized to use peripheral devices coupled to the peripheral device connection interface; and

    a switching mechanism that enables use of peripheral devices coupled to the peripheral device connection interface when the RFID chip reader detects the presence of an authorized RFID chip code.

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