Cloud-based system for reading of decodable indicia

• US 9,665,655 B2
• Filed: 07/15/2016
• Issued: 05/30/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Deloge, Stephen Patrick, Anderson, Donald, Hejl, Benjamin, Todeschini, Erik, Meier, Timothy P., Koziol, Thomas J.
• Primary Examiner(s): TRAIL, ALLYSON NEEL
• Application Number:
  US15/211,745
• Publication Number:
  US 20160321372A1
• Time in Patent Office: 319 Days
• Field of Search: 235375, 23546246, 235454, 705 1, 705 1423
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/1443 locating of the code in an image
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/1447 extracting optical codes from image or text carrying said optical code
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3274 using a pictured code, e.g. barcode or QR-code, being displayed on the M-device
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 2220/00 Business processing using cryptography postage metering system using cryptography G06Q2250/05
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/24 Key scheduling, i.e. generating round keys or sub-keys for block encryption
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/64 Self-signed certificates
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/06 for supporting key management in a packet data network cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for key management H04L9/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0823 using certificates cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication involving certificates H04L9/3263
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0869 for achieving mutual authentication cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for mutual authentication H04L9/3273
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/0861 Generation of secret information including derivation or calculation of cryptographic keys or passwords
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3263 involving certificates, e.g. public key certificate [PKC] or attribute certificate [AC]; Public key infrastructure [PKI] arrangements network architectures or network communication protocols for supporting authentication of entities using certificates in a packet data network H04L63/0823

Abstract

A data decoding system can comprise one or more computers communicatively coupled to a network. The computers can execute at least one decoding process. The decoding process can be configured, responsive to receiving a decoding request comprising an image of decodable indicia, to locate the decodable indicia within the image, and to decode the decodable indicia into a decoded message. The decoding process can be further configured, responsive to completing a decoding operation, to transmit to the client the decoded message and/or the decoding operation completion code.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

authenticating, with one or more computers communicatively coupled to a network, a client;

simultaneously with an initiation of authenticating a client, creating, with the one or more computers, a usage tracking record in a usage tracking database comprising a client identifier;

in response to receiving a decoding request from a client, the decoding request comprising an image of decodable indicia, locating, with the one or more computers, the decodable indicia within the image;

in response to successfully locating the decodable indicia, decoding, with the one or more computers, the decodable indicia into a decoded message;

in response to completing a decoding operation, transmitting to the client, with the one or more computers, the decoded message and/or a decoding operation completion code; and

in response to completing the decoding operation, updating, with the one or more computers, the usage tracking database comprising the client identifier.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein updating the usage tracking database comprising the client identifier comprises updating the usage tracking database comprising the client identifier with the image and the decoded message and/or the decoding operation completion code.

3. The method of claim 1, comprising:

authenticating the client with a first computer; and

decoding the decodable indicia with a second computer.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the client is provided by a mobile computing device comprising one of:

an integrated imaging device, a peripheral imaging device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the client is provided by a desktop computer comprising one of:

an integrated imaging device, a peripheral imaging device.

6. The method of claim 1, comprising:

in response to receiving from a client an authentication request comprising a client certificate, negotiating, with the one or more computers, a common secret with the client;

creating, with the one or more computers, a cryptographic key based on the common secret; and

using, with the one or more computers, the cryptographic key to perform at least one of;

encrypting one or more messages transmitted to the client;

decrypting one or more messages received from the client.

7. The method of claim 6, comprising, in response to receiving from a client an authentication request comprising a client certificate, transmitting, with the one or more computers, a validation request to a certificate authority issuing the client certificate.

8. A method, comprising:

creating, with one or more computers communicatively coupled to a network, a usage tracking record in a usage tracking database comprising a client identifier;

in response to receiving a decoding request from a client, the decoding request comprising an image of decodable indicia, locating, with the one or more computers, the decodable indicia within the image;

in response to successfully locating the decodable indicia, decoding, with the one or more computers, the decodable indicia into a decoded message;

in response to completing a decoding operation, transmitting, with the one or more computers, a logging request; and

in response to receiving the logging request, updating, with the one or more computers, the usage tracking database comprising the client identifier with the image and the decoded message and/or the decoding operation completion code.

9. The method of claim 8, comprising:

decoding the decodable indicia with a first computer; and

updating the usage tracking database with a second computer.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the decoding request comprises one or more values of client configuration parameters;

and

wherein the usage tracking record comprises the one or more values of client configuration parameters.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the client is provided by a mobile communication terminal comprising an optical reading device configured to output the image of decodable indicia.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the client is provided by a desktop computer comprising one of:

an integrated imaging device, a peripheral imaging device.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the client is provided by a computing device integrated into a point-of-sale system, the computing device comprising one of:

an integrated imaging device, a peripheral imaging device.

14. A method, comprising:

creating, with one or more computers communicatively coupled to a network, a usage tracking record in a usage tracking database comprising a client identifier;

in response to receiving a decoding request from a client, the decoding request comprising an image of decodable indicia, locating, with the one or more computers, the decodable indicia within the image;

in response to successfully locating the decodable indicia, decoding, with the one or more computers, the decodable indicia into a decoded message;

in response to completing a decoding operation, transmitting to the client, with the one or more computers, the decoded message and/or a decoding operation completion code;

in response to completing a decoding operation, transmitting, with the one or more computers, a logging request;

in response to receiving the logging request, updating, with the one or more computers, the usage tracking database comprising the client identifier with the image and the decoded message and/or the decoding operation completion code;

in response to successfully locating the decodable indicia, determining, with the one or more computers, a symbology type of the decodable indicia; and

in response to determining the symbology type of the decodable indicia, transmitting, with the one or more computers, a billing request to a billing system, the billing request comprising the determined symbology type of the decodable indicia.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the billing request comprises an identifier of the client and/or a number of decodable indicia items to be decoded.

16. The method of claim 14, comprising transmitting, with the one or more computers, the decoded message to the client in response to receiving a billing transaction confirmation from the billing system.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the client is provided by a mobile communication terminal comprising an optical reading device configured to output the image of decodable indicia.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the client is provided by a mobile computing device comprising one of:

an integrated imaging device, a peripheral imaging device.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the client is provided by a desktop computer comprising one of:

an integrated imaging device, a peripheral imaging device.

20. The method of claim 14, wherein the client is provided by a computing device integrated into a point-of-sale system, the computing device comprising one of:

an integrated imaging device, a peripheral imaging device.