Patent ID: 8599174
Filing Date: 2013-12-03
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a manual device including a writing element operable at least to discharge a marking substance on a surface in response to a movement of the writing element upon the surface; a sensor operable at least to acquire information from one or more radio frequency identification tags associated with a user of the manual device, the acquired information including at least an acquired identity of the user of the manual device; a user data entry module operable at least to obtain user-entered data, the user-entered data including at least a user-entered identity of the user of the manual device; a verification module operable at least to determine a correspondence between the acquired identity and the user-entered identity of the user of the manual device; an authorization module operable at least to determine an authorization status, including at least the authorization module operable to determine whether an identity of the user of the manual device corresponds with a preauthorized user of the manual device; and a controller operable at least to regulate the discharge of the marking substance, including at least the controller operable to regulate the discharge of the marking substance based at least in part on the determined correspondence between the acquired identity and the user-entered identity of the user of the manual device, and based at least in part on the determined authorization status.