System, method, proceedure and components for preparing an article for authentication and tracking

摘要

Persons and/or business entities (inquirers), interested in acquiring a BRANDED article, or availing themselves of a BRANDED service, upon seeing IDENTIFIER 110 with BRAND 120 of authenticator 54, as carried by the article or its packaging or associated with a service, are enabled to recognize that the BRAND SOURCE of such article(s) or service is authenticatable and the article trackable. By imaging the unique encoded symbology 112, carried by IDENTIFIER 110, and transmitting the image, and/or its decode, to administrator 54 authentication of the BRAND SOURCE and tracking of the article may be accomplished. Authenticator 54, upon receipt of the image, and/or decode, of the encoded symbology 112 carried by the article or service, may query authenticator data base 58 (FIG. 1) and seek a match, from data previously stored in data base 58 for stored data corresponding to the so received decode of the specific encoded symbology carried by the article or service. According to one aspect of this invention all inquiries concerning authentication of BRAND SOURCE are routed to authenticator 54.

主权项

1. Brand source tracking of articles; comprising,
a). A brand source identifier including:
i). at least a first human observable surface;ii). encoded authenticator indicia carried by said brand source identifier;iii). said authenticator indicia indicating encoded symbology; indicating the “source” of the Brand;iv) data imaging, decoding, transmitting, and storing devices for capturing, collecting, transmitting and storing said encoded symbology;v) a data entry device for entering location data for an article after a brand source identifier has been attached to or otherwise associated with the article and to store said location data and correlate said stored location data and said data of said encoded symbology to facilitate tracking of the article