Patent ID: 9681302
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: receiving data from a phone, the received data including user-entered data and at least one of tag data of a tag and metadata, wherein the user-entered data comprises at least one of a user-entered alphanumeric string, a still image, a motion video, and an audio segment; causing the user-entered data to be stored into a memory of the tag, wherein the user-entered data is stored in an unencrypted format; based on the received data, generating a validation signature for the tag; and causing the validation signature to be written into the memory of the tag; wherein the validation signature is written to the memory of the tag such that the validation signature for the tag is later usable to validate the user-entered data and enables a predetermined action to be performed with the at least one of tag data and the metadata.