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

Claim 0:
1. 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, and wherein the ciphers from the plurality of predefined discrete areas encode a plurality of bits of data;
receiving a scan of the machine-readable identifier from a user;
extracting the ciphers from the received scan, wherein the plurality of bits of data from the extracted ciphers uniquely identifies the article of clothing;
determining one or more attributes of the article of clothing from the plurality of bits of data;
displaying the one or more determined attributes to the user, wherein the one or more attributes includes at least one of: an authenticity, a manufacturing history, or an ownership history; and
wherein determining the one or more attributes of the article of clothing from the extracted cipher includes retrieving the one or more attributes from a distributed blockchain ledger.