Patent ID: 11948156
Assignee: NIKE, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H  A | IPC A  G  H

Claim 7:
8. A method of providing a service related to an article of clothing, comprising:
providing a machine-readable identifier on an exterior surface of an article of clothing, the machine-readable identifier comprising a digitally printed image having a plurality of predefined discrete areas, and wherein the image includes a cipher at each of the plurality of predefined discrete areas, the cipher comprising at least one of a symbol, a color, or a geometric shape;
retrieving a predetermined stored cipher for each of the predetermined discrete areas each corresponding to one of the plurality of predetermined discrete areas;
comparing the identifying ciphers of each of the predetermined discrete areas with the predetermined stored ciphers for each of the predetermined discrete areas to determine if each identifying cipher in each of the predetermined discrete areas matches a corresponding stored cipher for each of the respective predetermined discrete areas;
providing the service relating to the article of clothing in response to determining that each identifying cipher in each of the predetermined discrete areas matches the corresponding stored cipher for each of the respective predetermined discrete areas; and
wherein the service related to the article of clothing includes enabling access to a blockchain ledger entry, the blockchain ledger entry includes at least one product attribute, the at least one product attribute is an attribute of the article of clothing, the at least one product attribute includes attribute data about one of: where the product was made, how the product was made, or sustainability information about the article of clothing.