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• US 20130312111A1
• Filed: 03/11/2013
• Published: 11/21/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Visa International Service Association (Visa, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Visa International Service Association (Visa, Inc.)
• Inventors: Carlson, Mark, Cheatham, Steven
• Granted Patent: US 9,075,653 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/27
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/00 Security arrangements for protecting computers, components thereof, programs or data against unauthorised activity
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/30 Authentication, i.e. establishing the identity or authorisation of security principals
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/41 where a single sign-on provides access to a plurality of computers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/629 to features or functions of an application
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 7/49936 Normalisation mentioned as feature only
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3226 using a predetermined code, e.g. password, passphrase or PIN network architectures or network communication protocols for supporting authentication of entities using passwords in a packet data network H04L63/083

Abstract

Embodiments of the invention broadly described, introduce systems and methods for combining multiple field values into a normalized value, generating codes using the normalized value, and using the codes as activation codes. One embodiment of the invention discloses a computer-implemented method for generating a code. The method comprises receiving a plurality of field values associated with a set of fields, each of the fields being associated with a field radix, converting the field values into numeric field values, combining, by a processor, numeric field values, each associated with a field, each of the fields associated with a field radix, to generate a normalized value, and generating, by the processor, a code representative of the plurality of field values using the normalized value.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

combining, by a processor, numeric field values, each associated with a field, each of the fields associated with a field radix, to generate a normalized value; and

generating, by the processor, a code representative of the plurality of field values using the normalized value.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a plurality of field values associated with a set of fields, each of the fields being associated with a field radix; and

converting the field values into numeric field values.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the normalized value is associated with a normalized radix, wherein the normalized radix is greater than the field radices.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the code is compressed as compared to the plurality of field values.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the code is an activation code represented in printable ASCII characters.

6. A server computer, comprising:

a processor; and

a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, comprising code executable by the processor for implementing a method comprising;

combining, by a processor, numeric field values, each associated with a field, each of the fields associated with a field radix, to generate a normalized value; and

generating, by the processor, a code representative of the plurality of field values using the normalized value.

7. The server computer of claim 6, wherein the method further comprises:

receiving a plurality of field values associated with a set of fields, each of the fields being associated with a field radix; and

converting the field values into numeric field values.

8. The server computer of claim 6, wherein the normalized value is associated with a normalized radix, wherein the normalized radix is greater than the field radices.

9. The server computer of claim 8, wherein the code is compressed as compared to the plurality of field values.

10. The server computer of claim 6, wherein the code is an activation code represented in printable ASCII characters.

11. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, by a processor, an activation code; and

determining a plurality of field values using the activation code and an activation code format.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising receiving the activation code format, wherein the activation code format indicates the structure of data present in the activation code.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the activation code format comprises:

a plurality of fields, each field being associated with a field radix; and

an ordering of the plurality of fields.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the method further comprises:

validating a user input using one or more of the plurality of field values.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the method further comprises:

generating web page elements using one or more of the plurality of field values.

16. A computer, comprising:

a processor; and

a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, comprising code executable by the processor for implementing a method comprising;

receiving, by a processor, an activation code; and

retrieving a plurality of field values using the activation code and an activation code format.

17. The computer of claim 16, wherein the method further comprises receiving the activation code format, wherein the activation code format indicates the structure of data present in the activation code.

18. The computer of claim 16, wherein the activation code format comprises:

a plurality of fields, each field being associated with a field radix; and

an ordering of the plurality of fields.

19. The computer of claim 16, wherein the method further comprises:

validating a user input using one or more of the plurality of field values.

20. The computer of claim 16, wherein the method further comprises:

generating web page elements using one or more of the plurality of field values.