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Systems for secure tracking code generation, application, and verification

  • US 9,741,012 B2
  • Filed: 11/04/2015
  • Issued: 08/22/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer system, comprising:

  • one or more hardware processors;

    a durable computer-readable hardware storage medium; and

    one or more computer-readable media having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that are executable by the one or more hardware processors to configure the computer system to verifiably imprint tracking codes onto physical articles and package the physical articles into a grouping container, the computer-executable instructions including instructions that are executable to configure the computer system to perform at least the following;

    generate, at the one or more hardware processors, a plurality of different tracking codes that are part of a grouping of tracking codes;

    send the plurality of tracking codes towards an automated computer-controlled production line, along with one or more first messages that cause the production line to perform at least the following;

    physically imprint, by one or more hardware imprinting units of the production line, each of the plurality of different tracking codes onto a different corresponding article; and

    physically verify, by one or more hardware verification units of the production line, the physical imprinting by the one or more hardware imprinting units of each tracking code onto its corresponding article, including the one or more hardware verification units performing a machine reading of each tracking code as it is imprinted on its corresponding article; and

    receive at least one result of the verification by the one or more hardware verification units of the physical imprinting of each tracking code onto its corresponding article, and, for each tracking code;

    based at least on the at least one result of the verification indicating that the tracking code was correctly imprinted on its corresponding article;

    direct the article for packaging in a grouping container; and

    record, in the durable computer-readable hardware storage medium, one or more records that indicate the tracking code as being imprinted on an article and as being part of the grouping;

    orbased at least on the at least one result of the verification indicating that the tracking code was incorrectly imprinted on its corresponding article ;

    send one or more second messages towards the automated computer-controlled production line, causing the one or more hardware verification units to physically direct the corresponding article away from the grouping container; and

    re-queue the tracking code for a subsequent imprinting an article for packaging in the grouping container.

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