System and method for extracting triggered data from a variable data string and embedding the triggered data into a secure barcode

• US 9,604,445 B2
• Filed: 03/02/2015
• Issued: 03/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: CognitiveTPG LLC (Blue Edge Technology LLC)
• Original Assignee: Ctpg Operations LLC
• Inventors: Delaney, Robert, Turner, Kyle
• Primary Examiner(s): Grant, II, Jerome
• Application Number:
  US14/635,422
• Publication Number:
  US 20150248267A1
• Time in Patent Office: 757 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.15, 358/468, 358/3.23, 358/1.14, 358/1.16, 358/400, 358/1.18
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B41F 19/02 with embossing
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 2/325 by selective transfer of ink from ink carrier, e.g. from ink ribbon or sheet
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 3/38 for embossing, e.g. for making matrices for stereotypes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/44 Program or device authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/602 Providing cryptographic facilities or services
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/608 Secure printing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1222 Increasing security of the print job
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1236 Connection management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1238 Secure printing, e.g. user identification, user rights for device usage, unallowed content, blanking portions or fields of a page, releasing held jobs
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1259 Print job monitoring, e.g. job status
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1273 Print job history, e.g. logging, accounting, tracking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1285 Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1288 in client-server-printer device configuration
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1293 Printer information exchange with computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1294 Status or feedback related to information exchange
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/028 by thermal printers
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/4095 Secure printing computer driven secure printing G06F3/1238
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00204 with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/3232 Robust embedding or watermarking
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0082 Image hardcopy reproducer H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3269 : of machine readable codes or marks, e.g. bar codes or glyphs

Abstract

A system and method for securing a data stream containing data to be embedded in a bar code. The system comprising a printer, having a nontransitory storage medium, configured to: receive a data stream from a host computer, the data stream having at least one trigger identifying at least one portion of data to be embedded in a bar code; identify each trigger in the received data stream; extract each data portion identified by the trigger; and print a secured bar code embedded with the extracted data portions.

Claims

1. A system for securing a data stream containing data to be embedded in a bar code, comprising:

a printer, having a nontransitory storage medium, configured to;

receive a data stream from a host computer, the data stream having at least one trigger being formed of a first portion of the received data and identifying at least one portion of data to be embedded in a bar code, wherein the first portion and the at least one identified portion are different portions of the received data;

identify each trigger in the received data stream;

extract each data portion identified by the trigger; and

convert the extracted data to barcode data embedded with the extracted data, wherein the barcode data and the extracted data are of different data types;

print a secured bar code embedded with the extracted data portions.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the configuration to identify further comprises a configuration to:

receive data identifying the trigger;

parse the received data stream; and

compare the received data stream to the data identifying the trigger to locate any triggers within the data stream.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the data identifying the trigger is received from a second computer.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the data received from the second computer is received via a server.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein extracting the data portion comprises identifying a pattern around the trigger, wherein the trigger is a reference for orienting the pattern.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the trigger comprises a code for locating the portion of data in the data stream.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the configuration to extract further comprises a configuration to interpret the code of the trigger and locate the data in the data stream.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one trigger comprises a first trigger identifying a first portion of data in the data stream, and a second trigger identifying a second, non-adjacent portion of data in the data stream.

9. A method for securing a data stream containing data to be embedded in a bar code, comprising the steps of:

receiving a data stream from a host computer, the data stream having at least one trigger being formed of a first portion of the received data and identifying at least one portion of data to be embedded in a bar code, wherein the first portion and the at least one identified portion are different portions of the received data;

identifying each trigger in the received data stream;

extracting each data portion identified by the trigger; and

converting the extracted data to barcode data embedded with the extracted data, wherein the barcode data and the extracted data are of different data types;

printing a secured bar code embedded with the extracted data portions.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the step of identifying comprises:

receiving data identifying the trigger;

parsing the received data stream; and

comparing the received data stream to the data identifying the trigger to locate any triggers within the data stream.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the data identifying the trigger is received from a second computer.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the data received from the second computer is received via a server.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the step of extracting the data portion further comprises identifying a pattern around the trigger, wherein the trigger is a reference for orienting the pattern.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein the trigger is a code for locating the portion of data in the data stream.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the step of extracting further comprises interpreting the code of the trigger.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein the at least one trigger comprises a first trigger identifying a first portion of data in the data stream, and a second trigger identifying a second, non-adjacent portion of data in the data stream.