Method of Authentication of the Items Put Into Circulation

• US 20090006255A1
• Filed: 11/29/2006
• Published: 01/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Dintag Corporation OY
• Original Assignee: Dintag Corporation OY
• Inventors: Chak, Sergey Matveevich, Bychkov, Georgy Vasilejvich
• Application Number:
  US12/160,603
• Publication Number:
  US 20090006255A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/50
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/64 Protecting data integrity, e.g. using checksums, certificates or signatures
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions

Abstract

An efficient and universal anti-counterfeit protection of commercial products allows consumers, wholesalers and interested regulatory authorities to rapidly and reliably check the authenticity of products put into circulation. The authentication system administrator manufactures and provides the manufacturer of an authentic product with the requested quantity of authentication marks. Each authentication mark includes a set of symbols. One part of this set is open for reading and is the identification combination. The authentication marks are attached to the products such that reading the identification combination is impossible without causing permanent damage to the protective media. Then administrator has a description of the items bearing such authentication marks, and checks the identification combination contained in the request against the identification combination whose serial number in the authentication database coincides with the serial number of the item.

Claims

1. Method of authenticating items put into circulation wherein the authentication system administrator, at the request of an authentic product manufacturer, generates and provides the item manufacturer with the specified quantity of authentication marks each of which contains a set of symbols one part of which is open for reading (overt) and is the serial number of the authentication mark, and the other part of which is covered with a protective media a not allowing its visual perception (covert) and is the identification combination, following which the manufacturer marks items put into circulation with the authentication marks provided by the authentication system administrator by attaching authentication marks to the products in such a manner that reading the identification combination is impossible without causing permanent damage to the protective media, and provides the authentication system administrator with a description of the items bearing such authentication marks, a person participating in the circulation of authentication mark bearing items and interested in its authentication removes the protective media after checking its integrity, reads the identification combination and forwards a request to the authentication system administrator containing the serial number and the identification combination of the item authentication mark via any communication means available, the authentication system administrator checks the identification combination contained in the request against the identification combination whose serial number in the authentication database coincides with the serial number of the item and, if the respective identification combinations coincide, forwards to the person performing the item authentication procedure the description of the item that is available in the database as related to the authentication mark provided by that person, and the person performing authentication concludes as to the authenticity of the item if the product description in this person'"'"'s possession coincides with the product description received from the authentication system authentication system administrator.

2. Method according to claim 1, wherein the said identification combination is a randomly generated sequence of digits and/or characters and/or graphical symbols.

3. Method according to claim 1, wherein the said identification combination further includes a duplication of the authentication mark serial number.

4. Method according to claim 1, wherein the said manufacturer of items put into circulation marks each item with one or more authentication marks by applying the authentication marks directly to the product and/or to the package of an individual item and/or to the common package of multiple individual items.

5. Method according to claim 1, wherein the said identification combination of the authentication mark is protected from vista perception by placing it inside the product package so its reading is impossible without violating the integrity of the product package.

6. Method according to claim 1, wherein the said item description provided to the authentication system administrator includes product name, manufacturer name, and/or other description information characterizing the items of their properties, and/or information on persons certifying the properties of the authentication mark bearing items.

7. Method according to claim 1, wherein the said product authenticating person provides the authentication system administrator with information comprising that person'"'"'s personal data for generating the history of the item being authenticated.

8. Method according to claim 1, wherein the said authentication system administrator provides the product authenticating person with information on prior authentications of that item.

9. Method according to claim 7, wherein the said authentication system administrator provides the product authenticating person with information on prior authentications of that item.