Patent ID: 8214294

Claim:
A method of coordinating object identification between a sender and a receiver, said method comprising the steps of: validating a sender; receiving a plurality of identification codes for an object; generating an object identifier based on said plurality of object identification codes by performing operations comprising: obtaining, from a central database, a part number, a serial number, and an identification code associated with the object; computing a sum of the a part number, serial number, and identification code; and generating a random number; and subtracting the sum of the respective ASCII strings from the random number to obtain the object identifier; associating the object identifier with an object, wherein the object is one of a plurality of similar objects; storing the object identifier and the object identification codes in a central database; communicating the object identifier between a sender and the central database; transporting the object with the object identifier from the sender to a receiver; and authenticating the object with the object identifier by communicating with the central database, by performing operations comprising: reading, from the object, a part number, a serial number, and an identification code associated with the object; retrieving, from the central database, the object identifier associated with the object; and verifying that the sum of the a sum of the a part number, serial number, and identification code corresponds to the random number.