Patent ID: 8694687

Claim:
A kit for generating an identifier for a computing system, comprising, A. a computing system having at least one component having a manufacturing variation relative to like-manufactured components and including a processor and an operating system resident thereon, the component converting external information into data influenced by the manufacturing variation; and B. a non-transitory machine-readable medium having collectively stored thereon executable instructions adapted to be run by the operating system on the computing system, wherein the instructions when executed by the computing system process the data to reduce noise, generate fingerprint data of the manufacturing variation of the at least one component from the processed data, process the digital identifier value to generate redundancy information therefrom, generate an identity string from the digital identifier value and the redundancy information, wherein the identity string is representative of the identity of the computing system, and derive a digital identifier value from the fingerprint data, the digital identifier value being derived at least in part from and substantially representative of the manufacturing variation.