DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CHECKING THE INTEGRITY OF PHYSICAL OBJECTS
First Claim
1. A method for verifying the integrity of a set of objects intended for a given recipient, each of said objects of the set bearing one or more respective memory element(s) each storing at least one identifier which is specific to said memory element, said method comprising the following steps:
- reading, in each memory element of each of said objects, the identifier which is specific to said memory element, using a short-range remote reader; and
writing, in one of said memory elements, which is borne by at least one of said objects, using the short-range remote reader, group identifier data established based on said identifiers read in the memory elements of said objects and as well on identification data for a recipient of the set of objects.
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Abstract
The invention relates to a device for monitoring physical objects that comprises one or more short-range remote readers, memory elements to be attached to physical objects, and a controller adapted for executing a reading function capable of interaction with the one or more remote readers in order to acquire data contained in adjacent memory elements, and for executing an integrity validation function capable of distinguishing, from the acquired data, individual identifiers particular to each of the memory elements as well as group description data stored in at least some of said memory elements, and of checking the sufficiency of group description data while checking the compliance of individual identifiers with corresponding group description data.
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1. A method for verifying the integrity of a set of objects intended for a given recipient, each of said objects of the set bearing one or more respective memory element(s) each storing at least one identifier which is specific to said memory element, said method comprising the following steps:
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reading, in each memory element of each of said objects, the identifier which is specific to said memory element, using a short-range remote reader; and writing, in one of said memory elements, which is borne by at least one of said objects, using the short-range remote reader, group identifier data established based on said identifiers read in the memory elements of said objects and as well on identification data for a recipient of the set of objects. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for verifying the integrity of a set of objects intended for a given recipient, each of said objects bearing one or more memory element(s) each storing at least one identifier which is specific to said memory element, a memory element borne by at least one of said objects also storing group identifier data, said method also comprising the following steps:
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reading the group identifier data in said memory element borne by said at least one object, using a short-range remote reader; reading, in each memory element of each of said objects, the identifier which is specific to said memory element, using the short-range remote reader; obtaining identification data for a recipient of the set of objects; determining the result of a first function of said identifiers of the memory elements of the objects and of the identification data of the recipient; comparing the determined result of said function and the read group identifier, the integrity of said set, and the verification of its recipient being determined as a function of the result of said comparison. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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- 22. A batch of memory elements each storing at least one identifier which is specific to said memory element, at least one memory element being intended to be affixed on each respective object of a set of objects, one of said elements intended to be affixed on one of said objects also comprising group identifier data established based on said identifiers of the memory elements of said objects and on identification data of a recipient of the set of objects.
- 29. A device for verifying the integrity of a set of objects intended for a given recipient, each of said objects of the set bearing one or more respective memory elements each storing at least one identifier specific to said memory element, said device comprising a set of short-range remote reader(s), and being adapted to read, in each memory element of each of said objects, using said set of remote reader(s), the specific identifier, to establish group identifier data based on said read identifiers of the memory elements of said objects and as well on identification data for a recipient of the set of objects, and to write said group identifier data in one of said memory elements, which is borne by at least one of said objects, using the set of short-range remote reader(s).
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36. A device for verifying the integrity of a set of objects intended for a given recipient, each of said objects bearing one or more memory elements each storing at least one unique identifier specific to said memory element, one of said memory elements, which is borne by at least one of said objects, also storing group identifier data,
said device comprising a set of short-range remote reader(s), and being adapted to read the group identifier data in said memory element borne by said at least one object, using the set of remote reader(s), to read its unique identifier in each memory element of each of said objects, using the set of remote reader(s), said device also being adapted to obtain identification data for a recipient of the set of objects and to determine the result of a first function of said identifiers of the memory elements of said objects and the identification data for the recipient, to compare the determined result of said function and the read group identifier, and to determine the integrity of said set and the verification of its recipient as a function of the result of said comparison.
- 46. A package comprising a set of object(s), the package and object(s) each bearing one or more respective memory elements each storing at least one identifier which is specific to said memory element, one of said memory elements, which is borne by the package, also including group identifier data established based on said identifiers of the memory elements of the packets and objects and as well on identification data for a recipient of the set of objects.
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