Patent Publication Number: US-2016239850-A1

Title: Anti-counterfeit verification system

Description:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
     1. Field of the Invention 
     The present invention relates to an anti-counterfeit verification system. 
     2. Description of the Prior Art 
     In recent years, due to development of technology, counterfeiting techniques of many illegal counterfeiters continues to develop; therefore, a consumer are unable to distinguish the authenticity of many products on the market, and the consumer right cannot be guaranteed. 
     In a prior art as disclosed in TWM423879, a 2D bar code is printed on a package for user to verify the authenticity of products through network. Because the 2D bar code is revealed, the 2D bar code is counterfeited more easily. In addition, a printer printing the 2D bar code may repeat printing the package to sell, and the consumer may be cheated and buy a counterfeit. Furthermore, a verification process of the 2D bar code has no time or other verification limits, so anyone who can acquire the 2D bar code can verify the 2D bar code at any time. Hence, there is still room for improvement. 
     The present invention has arisen to mitigate and/or obviate the afore-described disadvantages. 
     SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
     The major object of the present invention is to provide an anti-counterfeit verification system which allows a user to verify an authenticity of a product and prevents a counterfeiter from counterfeit a verification information. 
     To achieve the above and other object, an anti-counterfeit verification system is provided, including a verification information, a database module and a consumer terminal The verification information can be accompanyable with an object to form a verification-information-to-be-verified. The database module includes a storing unit and a processing unit, and the storing unit is for storing the verification information. The consumer terminal can acquire the verification-information-to-be-verified through a sale terminal, when the sale terminal transmits an information to activate verification to the database module, the consumer terminal can transmit the verification-information-to-be-verified to the database module in a preset period; when the consumer terminal transmits the verification-information-to-be-verified to the database module in the preset period, the processing unit can compare the verification-information-to-be-verified with the verification information in the storing unit and record a verification result, and the processing unit transmits the verification result to the consumer terminal. 
     Specifically, the verification information includes a public examination data and a verification set, the verification set includes a covered verification data, the public examination data and the covered verification data correspond to each other, the covered verification data is covered and selectively irreversibly revealable, once the covered verification data is revealed, the covered verification data is unable to recover to an original state, the storing unit is for storing the public examination data and the covered verification data, the consumer terminal is allowable to transmit a covered verification data to be verified of the verification-information-to-be-verified to the database module in the preset period, when the consumer terminal transmits the covered verification data to be verified to the database module in the preset period, the processing unit compares the covered verification-information-to-be-verified with the covered verification data in the storing unit and record a verification result, and the processing unit transmits the verification result to the consumer terminal 
     The verification-information-to-be-verified includes a public examination data to be verified, the verification result is stored in the storing unit, the consumer terminal can transmit the public examination data to be verified to the database module, the processing unit can compare the public examination data to be verified with the public examination data in the storing unit to determine if they are identical, and if the public examination data to be verified and the public examination data in the storing unit are identical, the processing unit can transmit the verification result corresponding to the public examination data to the consumer terminal. 
     The anti-counterfeit verification system further includes a user end, the user end includes the verification information which is formed by one verification set of the verification sets and one public examination data of the public examination data, and the public examination data and the verification set correspond to each other. 
     The public examination data are non-repeated, and the verification sets are non-repeated. 
     The public examination data are repeated, and the verification sets are non-repeated. 
     The verification set of the verification information further includes a checking data, the processing unit can compute and identify a corresponding relation between the checking data and the covered verification data, and when the user end transmits the public examination data of the verification information and the checking data to the database module, the processing unit saves the public examination data of the verification information, the checking data and the covered verification data to the storing unit. 
     The verification set is printed on a surface of a product or a label paper via a printing device, the checking data and the covered verification data form a tear line therebetween, when the user end transmits the public examination data of the verification information and the checking data to the database module, the checking data and the covered verification data are separable through tearing the tear line. 
     The anti-counterfeit verification system includes a network server, the network server is connected with the database module, the network server includes a rear-end page, the user end can transmit the public examination data of the verification information and the checking data to the database module through the rear-end page. 
     The network server further includes a front-end page, the consumer terminal can transmit the covered verification data to be verified of the verification-information-to-be-verified to the database module. 
     Therefore, when the consumer terminal receives the verification-information-to-be-verified, the sale terminal must transmit the information to activate verification to the database module so that the consumer terminal can conduct verification. The consumer terminal must conduct verification in the preset period so that people who receives the verification-information-to-be-verified must conduct verification in the preset period, and counterfeiters cannot counterfeit the verification-information-to-be-verified easily. 
     The present invention will become more obvious from the following description when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, which show, for purpose of illustrations only, the preferred embodiment(s) in accordance with the present invention. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
         FIG. 1  is a drawing showing a verification information of the present invention; 
         FIG. 2  is a drawing showing a silver coat on a verification-information-to-be-verified of the present invention has not been removed; 
         FIG. 3  is a drawing showing a silver coat on a verification-information-to-be-verified of the present invention has been removed; 
         FIG. 4  is a framework of the present invention; 
         FIG. 5  is a drawing showing a public examination data of the present invention; 
         FIG. 6  is a drawing showing a verification set of the present invention; and 
         FIG. 7  is a drawing showing the verification set without a tear line of the present invention. 
     
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS 
     The present invention will be clearer from the following description when viewed together with the accompanying drawings, which show, for purpose of illustrations only, the preferred embodiment in accordance with the present invention. 
     Please refer to  FIGS. 1 to 4  for an anti-counterfeit verification system of the present invention, including a verification information  5 , a database module  3  and a consumer terminal  7 . 
     The verification information  5  can be accompanyable with an object to form a verification-information-to-be-verified  5 ′, and the verification-information-to-be-verified  5 ′ is provided on a sealing portion of a product. In this embodiment, the verification information  5  includes a public examination data  11  and a verification set  21 , the verification set  21  includes a covered verification data  212 , the public examination data  11  and the covered verification data  212  correspond to each other, the covered verification data  212  is covered and selectively irreversibly revealable, once the covered verification data  212  is revealed, the covered verification data  212  is unable to recover to an original state. More specifically, the covered verification data  212  is covered by a silver coat which can be removed selectively, and the silver coat can help to prevent the covered verification data  212  from being counterfeited. 
     The database module  3  includes a storing unit  31  and a processing unit  32 , and the storing unit  31  is for storing the verification information  5 . Specifically, the storing unit  31  is for storing the public examination data  11  and the covered verification data  212 , the consumer terminal  7  can acquire the verification-information-to-be-verified  5 ′ through a sale terminal  8 , when the sale terminal  8  transmits an information to activate verification to the database module  3 , the consumer terminal  7  can transmit the verification-information-to-be-verified  5 ′ to the database module  3  in a preset period; when the consumer terminal  7  transmits the verification-information-to-be-verified  5 ′ to the database module  3  in the preset period, and the processing unit  32  can compare the verification-information-to-be-verified  5 ′ with the verification information  5  in the storing unit  31  and record a verification result. More specifically, the consumer terminal  7  can transmit a covered verification data to be verified  51  of the verification-information-to-be-verified  5 ′ to the database module  3  in the preset period, when the consumer terminal  7  transmits the covered verification data to be verified  51  to the database module  3  in the preset period, the processing unit can compare the covered verification data to be verified  51  with the covered verification data  212  in the storing unit  31  and record the verification result, and the processing unit  32  transmits the verification result to the consumer terminal  7   
     Please refer to  FIGS. 1 to 6 , a preferred embodiment of the present invention further includes a user end  4 . The user end  4  includes the verification information  5  which is formed by one verification set  21  of the verification sets  21 ,  22  and one public examination data  11  of the public examination data  11 ,  12 , and the public examination data  11  and the verification set  21  of the verification information  5  correspond to each other. It is to be noted that the public examination data  11 ,  12  are non-repeated, and the verification sets  21 ,  22  are also non-repeated. Each said public examination data  11 ,  12  are 1D bar code, and each said public examination data  11 ,  12  are unique and non-repeated with other public examination data  11 ,  12 . Take one said public examination data  11  for example, the public examination data  11  can be read via a machine for a user to check related information of a product or an object, for example, the price, the place, and/or the manufacturer of the product. However, in other embodiments, the public examination data may be a 2D bar code. Of course, in other embodiments, the public examination data may be repeated. 
     Preferably, the verification set  21  of each said verification information  5  further includes a checking data  211 . As shown in  FIG. 6 , the verification sets  21 ,  22  respectively include a checking data  211 ,  221  and a covered verification data  212 ,  222  corresponding to the checking data  211 ,  221 . The verification sets  21 ,  22  are non-repeated, the verification sets  21 ,  22  are unique and non-repeated with other verification sets  21 ,  22 , and the verification sets  21 ,  22  are printed on a surface of a product or a label paper via a printing device. Specifically, the covered verification data  212  is covered and selectively irreversibly revealable, once the covered verification data  212  is revealed, the covered verification data  212  is unable to recover to an original state. More specifically, the covered verification data  212 ,  222  are covered by the silver coat which can be removed selectively, and the silver coat can help to prevent the covered verification data  212 ,  222  from being counterfeited. Each of the checking data  211 ,  221  and the covered verification data  212 ,  222  is a sequential number composed of random numbers. It is to be noted that the processing unit  32  can compute and identify a corresponding relation between the checking data  211 ,  221  and the covered verification data  212 ,  222 , and when the user end  4  transmits the public examination data  11  of the verification information  5  and the checking data  211  to the database module  3 , the processing unit  32  saves the public examination data  11  of the verification information  5 , the checking data  211  and the covered verification data  212  to the storing unit  31 . For example, the covered verification data  212  can be computed with a formula to be the checking data  211 , when the database module  3  receives the checking data  211 , the checking data  211  is computed through the processing unit  32  to acquire the covered verification data  212 . It is understandable that the processing unit  32  can also compute the covered verification data  212  to acquire the checking data  211 . Preferably, please refer to  FIG. 7 . The checking data  211 ,  221  and the covered verification data  212 ,  222  form a tear line  9  therebetween, when the user end  4  transmits the public examination data  11  of the verification information  5  and the checking data  211  to the database module  3 , the checking data  211 ,  221  and the covered verification data  212 ,  222  are separable through tearing the tear line  9 . Therefore, even if people acquire the covered verification data  212 ,  222 , they are unable to know the public examination data  11  corresponding to the covered verification data  212 ,  222  and unable to counterfeit. 
     In other words, the user end  4  can pick one of the public examination data  11  and one of the verification sets  21  randomly and combine one said public examination data  11  and one said verification sets  21  which are picked to form the verification information  5  so that the public examination data  11 , the checking data  211  and the covered verification data  212  correspond to one another. When the user end  4  transmits the public examination data  11  of the verification information  5  and the checking data  211  to the database module  3 , the processing unit  32  saves the public examination data  11  of the verification information  5 , the checking data  211  and the covered verification data  212  to the storing unit  31 . More specifically, when the user end  4  transmits the public examination data  11  of the verification information  5  and the checking data  211  to the database module  3 , the processing unit  32  can compute the checking data  211  to acquire the covered verification data  212  and save the public examination data  11 , the checking data  211  and the covered verification data  212  in the storing unit  31 ; therefore, a printing manufacturer who prints the public examination data  11  and the verification set  21  cannot know the verification information  5  which is formed by a combination of the public examination data  11  and the verification set  21 , and the printer manufacturer cannot counterfeit the product. In addition, because the covered verification data  212  is covered by the silver coat, the user end  4  which acquires the verification set  22  cannot know a content of the covered verification data  212 . Therefore, the public examination data  11  and the verification set  21  can be prevented from being counterfeited. 
     Specifically, the preferred embodiment of the present invention further includes a network server  6 , the network server  6  is connected with the database module  3 , the network server  6  includes a rear-end page, the user end  4  can transmit the public examination data  11  of the verification information  5  and the checking data  211  to the database module  3  through the rear-end page. For example, the user end  4  can enter an account and a password exclusively belonging to the user end  4  to login the rear-end page, the user end  4  enter the public examination data  11  of the verification information  5  and the checking data  211  through the rear-end page to the database module  3 , when the user end  4  transmits the public examination data  11  of the verification information  5  and the checking data  211  to the database module  3 , the processing unit  32  can compute the checking data  211  to acquire the covered verification data  212  and save the public examination data  11 , the checking data  211  and the covered verification data  212  in the storing unit  31 . In addition, in other embodiments, the user end can transmit the public examination data of the verification information and the checking data to the database module through communication media such as an application of a mobile phone. 
     In actual practice, for example, the consumer terminal  8  can purchase the product which is printed with the verification-information-to-be-verified  5 ′ through the user end  4  and sell the product to the consumer terminal  7 . When the sale terminal  8  sells the product, the sale terminal  8  transmits the information to activate verification to the database module  3 , the consumer terminal  7  can remove the silver coat on the covered verification data to be verified  51  on the product to acquire the covered verification data to be verified  51  and transmit the covered verification data to be verified  51 ′ to the database module  3  in the preset period so as to conduct verification. More specifically, the sale terminal  8  can enter an account and a password exclusively belonging to the sale terminal  8  through the rear-end page to login the rear-end page and enter one said information to activate verification to the database module  3 , wherein the information to activate verification may be a preset period (for example, 24 hours). Therefore, the consumer terminal  7  must transmit one said covered verification data to be verified  51 ′ of the verification-information-to-be-verified  5 ′ to the database module  3 . It is understandable that the consumer terminal can transmit the information to activate verification through communication media such as the application of the mobile phone so that the consumer terminal can conduct verification in the preset period. It is to be noted that in other embodiments, the user end may be equal to the consumer terminal; in other words, the user end may be the consumer terminal selling the product to the consumer terminal, that is, the consumer terminal can acquire the verification-information-to-be-verified through the user end. 
     More specifically, the network server  6  further includes a front-end page, the consumer terminal  7  can transmit the covered verification data to be verified  51 ′ of the verification-information-to-be-verified  5 ′ to the database module  3 . When the consumer terminal  7  transmits the covered verification data to be verified  51 ′ to the database module  3  in the preset period, the processing unit  32  can compare the covered verification data to be verified  51 ′ with the covered verification data  212  in the storing unit  31  and records a verification result corresponded (for example, the record shows “verified to be authentic”), and the processing unit  32  transmits the verification result to the consumer terminal  7 . For example, if the covered verification data to be verified  51 ′ and the covered verification data  212  in the storing unit  31  are identical, the processing unit  32  transmits a “verified to be authentic” verification frame to the consumer terminal  7  so that the user can know if the product s/he purchased is authentic or not. If the product purchased by the consumer terminal  7  is fake, the sale terminal  8  cannot transmit the information to activate verification, and the consumer terminal  7  cannot conduct verification; therefore, the front-end page can show “non-actuated” to notify the consumer terminal  7  that the product purchased by the consumer terminal  7  may be fake. Preferably, when the consumer terminal  7  enters the front-end page and enters the covered verification data to be verified  51 ′, the front-end page can show a count-down frame to notify the user end  7  when the verification will be finished. In addition, the consumer terminal  7  can transmit the covered verification data to be verified through communication media such as the application of the mobile phone. 
     Given the above, if the consumer terminal  7  does not conduct verification in the preset period, s/he can take the verification-information-to-be-verified  5 ′ and a purchase breakdown to the sale terminal  8 , and the sale terminal  8  can transmit the information to activate verification to the database module  3  so as to prevent people who acquires the verification-information-to-be-verified  5 ′ from conducting verification at any time. If the verification is not successful, the consumer terminal  7  needs to request the sale terminal  8  to actuate a verification process so as to prevent people who acquire the verification-information-to-be-verified  5 ′ from counterfeiting the product. Preferably, the verification-information-to-be-verified  5 ′ is provided on the sealing portion of the product, and after the user tears the product open, the verification-information-to-be-verified  5 ′ is torn apart or damaged and unable to recover to an original state. 
     The verification-information-to-be-verified  5 ′ includes a public examination data to be verified  52 , when the consumer terminal  7  transmits the covered verification data to be verified  51 ′ to the database module  3  to be verified, the verification result is storing united in the storing unit  3 , the consumer terminal  7  can transmit the public examination data to be verified  52  to the database module  3 , the processing unit  32  can compare the public examination data to be verified  52  with the public examination data  11  in the storing unit  31  to determine if they are identical, and if the public examination data to be verified  52  and the public examination data  11  in the storing unit  31  are identical, the processing unit  32  can transmit the verification result corresponding to the public examination data  11  to the consumer terminal  7 . For example, before the consumer terminal  7  has not purchased the product, the consumer terminal  7  can use a communication media to transmit the public examination data to be verified  52  to the database module  3 . If the product has be verified, a verification result which shows “verified” will be transmitted to the consumer terminal  7  so that the user can know that the product is fake to prevent the consumer terminal  7  from purchasing a counterfeit. In other embodiments, when the consumer terminal transmits the covered verification data to be verified to the database module, the processing unit can compare the covered verification data to be verified with the covered verification data in the storing unit to determine if they are identical. If the covered verification data to be verified with the covered verification data in the storing unit are identical, the public examination data corresponding to the covered verification data to the consumer terminal, and the consumer terminal can compare the public examination data that the processing unit transmits with the public examination data to be verified to see if they are identical. If the public examination data that the processing unit transmits with the public examination data to be verified are identical, the product that the consumer terminal purchases is authentic; if not, the consumer terminal can know that the product that s/he purchases is fake. 
     Given the above, the covered verification data is covered and selectively irreversibly revealable, once the covered verification data is revealed, and the covered verification data is unable to recover to an original state. The user end includes the verification information which is formed by one verification set of the verification sets and one public examination data of the public examination data, so the printing manufacturer who prints the public examination data and the verification sets cannot know the verification information formed by the combination of the public examination data and the verification set. In addition, when the consumer terminal acquire the verification-information-to-be-verified, the consumer terminal must transmit the information to activate verification to the database module so as to conduct verification, and the consumer terminal must conduct verification in the preset period. Therefore, through the present invention, people who acquires the verification-information-to-be-verified from counterfeiting the product. 
     While we have shown and described various embodiments in accordance with the present invention, it should be clear to those skilled in the art that further embodiments may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention.