Abstract
Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “Product serialization is a process in which a unique identifi er (uID) may be assigned to each saleable product. Individual product serializat ion enables product authentication, limits counterfeiting, and provides end-to-e nd oversight of a brand’s supply chain. Conventional serialization assignment me thods are largely static in nature in that they simply assign a product a serial identifier without regard toany type of context data associated with the produ ct. These conventional techniques therefore do little to prevent bad actors from cracking the serialization code and counterfeiting the product. Accordingly, gi ven the foregoing, a need exists for a more dynamic serial recommendation engine that may generate a strong serial configuration based upon one or more contextu al parameters.