Patent ID: 8827157

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for detecting laser scanners, comprising: receiving, by a computing device, a request to access an electronic record, the electronic record comprising a machine-readable identifier to be read by a scanner; displaying, by the computing device, the machine-readable identifier of the electronic record via a user interface of the computing device, in response to receiving the request to access the electronic record; activating, by the computing device, a camera function of the computing device; capturing, by the computing device, one or more images via the camera function of the computing device while the machine-readable identifier displayed on the user interface of the computing device is being scanned by the scanner; analyzing, by the computing device, the one or more captured images using patterns in images of laser scanners identified by an artificial neural network or adaptive system model for identifying laser scanners created by a detection computing system to determine that the scanner is a laser scanner, wherein the detection computing system analyzed the images of laser scanners and identified patterns in the images that correlate to laser scanners to create the artificial neural network or the adaptive system model for identifying laser scanners; and displaying, by the computing device, a message via the user interface of the computing device when the scanner is determined to be a laser scanner, wherein the message indicates that the displayed machine-readable identifier cannot be read by the scanner.