Matrix code for encryption, storage, and transmission of data

• US 9,292,697 B2
• Filed: 10/22/2013
• Issued: 03/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Dougharty, Tong C., Givens, Charlet N., Vora, Janki Y., Wang, Fang
• Primary Examiner(s): WILLIAMS, JEFFERY L
• Application Number:
  US14/059,584
• Publication Number:
  US 20140093070A1
• Time in Patent Office: 882 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/602 Providing cryptographic facilities or services
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2107 File encryption
• CPC Class Codes: G09C 5/00 Ciphering apparatus or methods not provided for in the preceding groups, e.g. involving the concealment or deformation of graphic data such as designs, written or printed messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/56 Financial cryptography, e.g. electronic payment or e-cash

Abstract

A computing device utilizes matrix codes to securely communicate information with a variety of servers. The computing device receives public user data, and generates a display of a base matrix code for reading by a scanner associated with a first server, wherein the base matrix code includes the public user data in a first mask. Responsive to the display of the base matrix code to the scanner associated with the first server, the computing device receives first private user data from the first server. The computing device generates a display of a first combined matrix code for reading by a scanner associated with a second server, wherein the first combined matrix code includes the public user data in the first mask and includes the first private user data in a second mask. The computing device can receive the public and first private user data in a matrix code.

Claims

1. A method for utilizing matrix codes, the method comprising:

receiving, by a computing device, public user data;

generating, by the computing device, a display of a base matrix code for reading by a scanner associated with a first server, wherein the base matrix code includes the public user data in a first mask within a data region of the base matrix code;

responsive to the display of the base matrix code to the scanner associated with the first server, receiving, by the computing device, first private user data from the first server; and

generating, by the computing device, a display of a first combined matrix code for reading by a scanner associated with a second server, wherein the first combined matrix code includes the public user data in the first mask within a data region of the first combined matrix code and includes the first private user data in a second mask within the data region of the first combined matrix code.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving, by the computing device, the public user data includes receiving, by the computing device, the base matrix code.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving, by the computing device, the first private user data from the first server includes receiving, by the computing device, the first private user data via a network interface of the computing device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving, by the computing device, the first private user data from the first server includes receiving, by the computing device, the first combined matrix code via a scanner of the computing device.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising removing, by the computing device, a first transformation distortion operation from the second mask within the data region of the first combined matrix code.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first private user data includes a financial account number.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising encrypting, by the computing device, the public user data displayed in the base matrix code.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising encrypting, by the computing device, the first private user data displayed in the first combined matrix code.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating, by the computing device, a display of the base matrix code for reading by a scanner associated with a third server;

responsive to the display of the base matrix code to the scanner associated with the third server, receiving, by the computing device, second private user data from the third server; and

generating, by the computing device, a display of a second combined matrix code for reading by a scanner associated with a fourth server, wherein the second combined matrix code includes the public user data in the first mask within a data region of the second combined matrix code and includes the second private user data in the second mask within the data region of the second combined matrix code.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the first server is associated with a first financial institution and the third server is associated with a second financial institution.

11. A computer program product for utilizing matrix codes, the computer program product comprising:

one or more computer-readable tangible storage devices and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, the program instructions comprising;

program instructions to receive public user data;

program instructions to generate a display of a base matrix code for reading by a scanner associated with a first server, wherein the base matrix code includes the public user data in a first mask within a data region of the base matrix code;

program instructions to receive, responsive to the display of the base matrix code to the scanner associated with the first server, first private user data from the first server; and

program instructions to generate a display of a first combined matrix code for reading by a scanner associated with a second server, wherein the first combined matrix code includes the public user data in the first mask within a data region of the first combined matrix code and includes the first private user data in a second mask within the data region of the first combined matrix code.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein receiving the public user data includes receiving the base matrix code.

13. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein receiving the first private user data from the first server includes receiving the first private user data via a network interface.

14. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein receiving the first private user data from the first server includes receiving the first combined matrix code via a scanner.

15. The computer program product of claim 14, further comprising program instructions to remove a first transformation distortion operation from the second mask within the data region of the first combined matrix code.

16. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the first private user data includes a financial account number.

17. The computer program product of claim 11, further comprising program instructions to encrypt the public user data displayed in the base matrix code.

18. The computer program product of claim 11, further comprising program instructions to encrypt the first private user data displayed in the first combined matrix code.

19. The computer program product of claim 11, further comprising:

program instructions to generate a display of the base matrix code for reading by a scanner associated with a third server;

program instructions to receive, responsive to the display of the base matrix code to the scanner associated with the third server, second private user data from the third server; and

program instructions to generate a display of a second combined matrix code for reading by a scanner associated with a fourth server, wherein the second combined matrix code includes the public user data in the first mask within a data region of the second combined matrix code and includes the second private user data in the second mask within the data region of the second combined matrix code.

20. The computer program product of claim 19, wherein the first server is associated with a first financial institution and the third server is associated with a second financial institution.