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Counterfeit And Tamper Resistant Labels With Randomly Occurring Features

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed to enable utilization f randomly-occuring features of a label (whether embedded or naturally inherent) to provide counterfeit-resistant and/or tamper-resistant labels. More specifically, labels including randomly-occurring features are scanned to determined the labes' features. The information from the scan is utilized to provide identifying indicia which uniquely identifies each label and may be later verified against the label features that are present to determine whether the label is genuine. In a described inplementation, the identifying indicia may be cryptographically signed.

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Patent Information

Application #
Filing Date
25 January 2005
Publication Number
52/2006
Publication Type
INA
Invention Field
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Status
Email
Parent Application

Applicants

MICROSOFT CORPORATION,
ONE MICROSOFT WAY, FEDMOND, WASHINGTON 98052, USA.

Inventors

1. DARKO KIROVSKI,
ONE MICROSOFT WAY, REDMOND, WASHINGTON 98052, USA.
2. GIDEON A. YUVAL,
ONE MICROSOFT WAY, REDMOND, WASHINGTON 98052, USA.
3. YACOV YACOBI,
ONE MICROSOFT WAY, REDMOND, WASHINGTON 98052, USA.
4. YUQUN CHEN,
ONE MICROSOFT WAY, REDMOND, WASHINGTON 98052, USA.

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