Write accessibility for Electronic paper

• US 20110215161A1
• Filed: 12/21/2010
• Published: 09/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/20/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Rinaldo, John D. JR., Jung, Edward K.Y., Levien, Royce A., Malamud, Mark A.
• Granted Patent: US 8,880,890 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/494
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 3/4076 printing on rewritable, bistable "electronic paper" by a focused electric or magnetic field
• 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

Abstract

A system and method to control the writing on electronic paper (e-paper). An e-paper device may incorporate authentication indicia as part of informational data written on e-paper material. The informational data is protected by a security methodology that is accessible to authorized entities. A reader device may be used to help make a verification determination of whether encrypted or encoded data has been altered. In some instances an output alert operably coupled to the reader device serves as a verification status indicator.

Claims

1-49. -49. (canceled)

50. A device comprising:

electronic paper material including one or more magnetically responsive particles arranged with one or more electrodes;

wherein the electronic paper material is configured to maintain information intended to be non-alterable, and

wherein the information intended to be non-alterable is authenticatable.

51. The device of claim 50, wherein the electronic paper material including one or more magnetically responsive particles arranged with one or more electrodes comprises:

electronic paper material including one or more electrophoretic particles arranged with one or more electrodes.

52. The device of claim 50, wherein the electronic paper material including one or more magnetically responsive particles arranged with one or more electrodes comprises:

electronic paper material including one or more magnetically responsive inks arranged with one or more electrodes.

53. The device of claim 50, wherein the electronic paper material including one or more magnetically responsive particles arranged with one or more electrodes comprises:

electronic paper material including one or more magnetically responsive particles disposed between one or more opposing electrodes.

54. The device of claim 50, wherein the electronic paper material including one or more magnetically responsive particles arranged with one or more electrodes comprises:

electronic paper material including two or more regions and one or more magnetically responsive particles arranged with one or more electrodes.

55. The device of claim 50, wherein the electronic paper material including one or more magnetically responsive particles arranged with one or more electrodes comprises:

electronic paper material including two or more entity designated regions and one or more magnetically responsive particles arranged with one or more electrodes.

56. The device of claim 50, wherein the electronic paper material including one or more magnetically responsive particles arranged with one or more electrodes comprises:

electronic paper material writably disenablable.

57. The device of claim 50, wherein the electronic paper material including one or more magnetically responsive particles arranged with one or more electrodes comprises:

electronic paper material writably disenablable in response to event occurrence, region identity, entity authentication, and/or request.

58. The device of claim 50, wherein the electronic paper material is configured to maintain information intended to be non-alterable comprises:

wherein the electronic paper material is configured to maintain encoded and/or encrypted information intended to be non-alterable.

59. The device of claim 50, wherein the electronic paper material is configured to maintain information intended to be non-alterable comprises:

wherein the electronic paper material is configured to maintain visible information intended to be non-alterable.

60. The device of claim 50, wherein the electronic paper material is configured to maintain information intended to be non-alterable comprises:

wherein the electronic paper material is configured to maintain information intended to be non-alterable and limitably accessible in accordance with one or more access controls.

61. The device of claim 50, wherein the electronic paper material is configured to maintain information intended to be non-alterable comprises:

wherein the electronic paper material is configured to maintain information intended to be non-alterable and limitably accessible in accordance with one or more access controls.

62. The device of claim 50, wherein the electronic paper material is configured to maintain information intended to be non-alterable comprises:

wherein the electronic paper material is configured as one or more labels to maintain information intended to be non-alterable.

63. The device of claim 50, wherein the electronic paper material is configured to maintain information intended to be non-alterable comprises:

wherein the electronic paper material is configured to maintain information intended to be non-alterable and alterable information.

64. The device of claim 50, wherein the electronic paper material is configured to maintain information intended to be non-alterable comprises:

electronic paper material is configured to maintain information related to an item and/or product and intended to be non-alterable.

65. The device of claim 50, wherein the electronic paper material is configured to maintain information intended to be non-alterable comprises:

wherein the electronic paper material is configured to maintain information intended to be non-alterable and readable by one or more entities having access to one or more security methodologies.

66. The device of claim 50, wherein the electronic paper material is configured to maintain information intended to be non-alterable comprises:

wherein the electronic paper material is configured to maintain information provided by and/or on behalf of one or more providers, one or more makers, one or more manufacturers, one or more distributors, and/or one or more sellers and intended to be non-alterable.

67. The device of claim 50, wherein the information intended to be non-alterable is authenticatable comprises:

wherein the information intended to be non-alterable is authenticatable using authentication indicia associated with any of alphanumeric symbol, geometric design, monochrome scheme, color scheme, background, repeated pattern, random pattern, boundary cross-over representation, legend, image, bar code, visible representation, and/or hidden representation.

68. The device of claim 50, wherein the information intended to be non-alterable is authenticatable comprises:

wherein the information intended to be non-alterable is authenticatable using authentication indicia associated with the electronic paper material.

69. The device of claim 50, wherein the information intended to be non-alterable is authenticatable comprises:

wherein the information intended to be non-alterable is authenticatable using authentication indicia detectable under one or more of the following conditions;

normal ambient light, infrared light, ultraviolet light, filtered light, specific environmental condition, specific time period, placement in electromagnetic field, and/or customized image processing.

70. The device of claim 50, wherein the information intended to be non-alterable is authenticatable comprises:

wherein the information intended to be non-alterable is authenticatable using one or more of code, cipher, key, checksum, hash, algorithm, and/or digital signature.

71. The device of claim 50, wherein one or more sources of the information intended to be non-alterable;

the electronic paper material;

one or more coupling links;

one or more products;

one or more product sources;

product information;

one or more product ingredients;

one or more product components;

one or more product origination dates;

one or more documents;

one or more document origination dates;

one or more items;

item information;

one or more item origination dates;

one or more packages;

one or more containers;

service information;

one or more service requirements;

usage instruction;

certification;

testing;

one or more endorsements;

one or more warranties;

one or more legal notifications;

one or more government approvals;

one or more destinations;

one or more deliveries;

tracking;

history;

tracking history;

modification history;

access history;

verification history;

validation;

one or more corporate approvals;

ownership;

and/or one or more authenticators are authenticatable.

72. The device of claim 50, further comprising:

one or more coupling links for association with one or more items, products, containers, and/or packages.

73. The device of claim 50, further comprising:

one or more circuit coupling links for association with one or more items, products, containers, and/or packages.

74. The device of claim 50, further comprising:

one or more visually correlatable coupling links for association with one or more items, products, containers, and/or packages.

75. The device of claim 50, further comprising:

one or more receivers configured to receive one or more signals.

76. The device of claim 50, further comprising:

one or more transmitters configured to transmit one or more signals.

77. The device of claim 50, further comprising:

one or more transmitters configured to transmit one or more signals of authentication confirmation and/or one or more alerts.

78. The device of claim 50, further comprising:

one or more transmitters configured to transmit one or more signals of authentication confirmation and/or one or more alerts to one or more locations separate from the electronic paper material.

79. The device of claim 50, further comprising:

one or more status indicators.

80. The device of claim 50, further comprising:

one or more status indicators configured to provide output in response to authentication.

81. The device of claim 50, further comprising:

one or more status indicators incorporated with and/or as one or more portions of the electronic paper material.

82. The device of claim 50, further comprising:

one or more status indicators operable to provide one or more of the following outputs;

text, alphanumeric, symbol, audio, visual, audiovisual, or color.

83. The device of claim 50, further comprising:

one or more status indicators operable to provide one or more outputs detectable under one or more of the following conditions;

normal ambient light, infrared light, ultraviolet light, filtered light, specific environmental condition, specific time period, placement in electromagnetic field, or customized image processing.