The i Button ID is read into a database and is associated with a customer number or invoice. Product options purchased can also be recorded. This process can be automated. Once deployed, i Button identification numbers can act as an audit trail. This is useful when resolving billing disputes, or for engineers troubleshooting problems.
Security Use the serial number as a seed to generate a password.
This allows you to vary passwords for each copy distributed while avoiding manual insertion of a unique password. Buttons are devices which can be read and written to. Changes are made to i Button memory areas even as the software application is being executed by the customer. This feature is vital to creating dynamic security schemes. Independent passwords can be set for each of the three DS1991 RAM pages.