Patent ID: 8162208

Claim:
A system for activating a user operation vehicle comprising: an activation portal to facilitate activation of the user operation vehicle by requesting a base user identification string (UIS) and a vehicle code identifying a user operation vehicle, wherein the activation portal is associated with 1) an encryptor to generate an encrypted base UIS and 2) a communications module to communicate the encrypted base UIS and the vehicle code over a communication network; a verifier in communication with the activation portal through the communication network, wherein the verification system receives the encrypted base UIS and the vehicle code from the activation portal through the communication network, authenticates the vehicle code, and identifies accounts that are linked to the user operation vehicle; and a UIS generator in communication with the activation portal and verification system through the communications network, wherein the UIS generator includes a decryptor and a UIS generation module to generate a unique account-specific UIS from the encrypted base UIS for each account linked to the user operation vehicle by modifying the base UIS, wherein the UIS generator modifies the base UIS to generate the unique account-specific UIS for each account linked to the user operation vehicle by appending a string of one or more additional characters to the base UIS for each account linked.