Patent ID: 7946488

Claim:
A system for identifying a glazing unit using a marking element affixed to the glazing unit and identifiable from outside the glazing unit, the system comprising: an identification device including a computer database, the identification device receiving a recognition of the marking element and identifying one or more hexadecimal numbers from a string of characters of the marking element, the string of characters containing one or more substrings of successive characters where at least one of the one or more substrings is encoded as a hexadecimal number with a base of 16; the identification device correlating the one or more hexadecimal numbers to information in the computer database by relating the one or more hexadecimal numbers to a string of numbers of an identifier representing the information, each of the one or more hexadecimal numbers of the at least one marking element comprising a hexadecimal coding of a number of the string of numbers of the identifier, the information including characteristics unique to the glazing unit on which the marking element is visible and being at least partially publically renderable; and a second technical communication device that passes on the information in the computer database that corresponds to the marking element from the identification device to a reception device.