WO2023044128A1

WO2023044128A1 - Providing high efficiency meta markets with digital ownership transactions of physical collectible items

Info

Publication number: WO2023044128A1
Application number: PCT/US2022/044026
Authority: WO
Inventors: Jeffrey D. Mullen; David MALARIK; James Nelson
Original assignee: Dynamics Inc
Current assignee: Dynamics Inc
Priority date: 2021-09-17
Filing date: 2022-09-19
Publication date: 2023-03-23
Anticipated expiration: 2024-03-17

Abstract

A system includes a secure vault or system of vaults that store items such as collectible items. A market ecosystem is provided where buyers and sellers can buy, sell and trade the vaulted items without physically moving the location of the items. Items may be shipped to an intermediary item management and vaulting system and such items may be manually or automatically unboxed, permanently encapsulated (e.g., via ultrasonic welding or permanent adhesive), image captured, stored, and listed on a transactional marketplace.

Description

PROVIDING HIGH EFFICIENCY META MARKETS WITH DIGITAL OWNERSHIP TRANSACTIONS OF PHYSICAL COLLECTIBLE ITEMS

Background of the Invention

[0001] This invention relates to payment devices and payment systems.

Summary of the Invention

[0002] Secure intermediated marketplaces are provided where physical collectibles items are stored in one or more remote facilities (e.g. , remote vaults) and the items can be transacted between people (e.g. , purchased, sold, traded) in individual item transactions or group item transactions through different sales formats (e.g. , auctions, direct list price, private offer) and the ownership of the transacted item can change without requiring for example, a change in the physical location of the underlying collectible item(s) . Such a facility or facilities may be placed, for example, in a region without sales tax so that transacted physical items do not need to be shipped and where no sales tax is applicable to the sale. In doing so, items may be instantly purchased and sold and the new owners of the items do not need to, for example, take the risk and expense of shipment or the risk and expense of taxes (e.g. , cross border import and sales tax) . In doing so, for example, a non-US national may instantly purchase an item stored in a vault in a no sales tax region of the United States (e.g. , Delaware, Oregon, etc. ) and instantly be provided ownership of the item at the completion of the transaction. At any time, for example, the owner of an item may provide additional services such as sell the item, trade the item, auction the item, ship the item to an owner-provided shipping location, appraise the item, sell the item through a third party (e.g. , a third-party auction house) , grade the condition of an item, or any other service. All of these services may be provided in the same facility, for example, where the item is located so the item does not need to, for example, ship to a different facility and take on the risk, expense, and time of that shipment. Some services may be with partner services so bulk items may be periodically shipped to the partner services (e.g. , over 100 items from over 100 owners may be shipped together securely to a third- party collectible authentication and/or grading service) .

[0003] Collectibles or any item, such as items with secondary resale value, may be, for example, securely vaulted where items may be bought and sold over decades, if not centuries, without ever moving the physical object. Such collectible may include, for example, trading cards (e.g. , sports cards such baseball cards, basketball cards, football cards, soccer cards, hockey cards, non-sports cards such as entertainment and historical figure cards, gaming cards, comic books, coins, stamps, event tickets, video games, memorabilia such as sports equipment and clothing, toys such as action figures, dolls, plush, photographs, programs, photographs, cereal boxes, handbags, jewelry, art, sneakers, hats, automobiles, or any type of collectible item) .

[0004] As items are received for storage and/or listing on the marketplace, the items may be permanently encapsulated in a transparent polymer case (e.g. , a hard plastic slab) . Such a plastic case may be a two-part case, three-part case, four-part case, or more than four-part case that may be permanently welded together (e.g. , ultrasonically welded) and/or permanently adhered together via one or more adhesives (e.g. , a chemical adhesive, temperature adhesive, UV- cure adhesive, pressure adhesive, or any type of adhesive or combinations of adhesives) . The plastic case may not, for example, physically bond to the collectible but, for example, create a cavity in which the collectible may be stored in. In doing so, the permanently sealed encapsulation case may be physically destroyed and the collectible item may be removed from the cavity without damage. The encapsulated case parts may be fabricated from a hard material (e.g. , a hard polycarbonate, polystyrene, and/or acrylic) and may be fabricated through a molding (e.g. , injection molding process) . A security tag may be placed in the encapsulation case so that identifies the item as well as additional characteristics (e.g. , encapsulation entity, condition grading entity and condition grade, authentication entity and authentication grade, etc) . Accordingly, the tag, which may or may not be permanently attached to a cavity in the encapsulated case, may identity the collectible and viewable from a consumer from outside the case in addition to the collectible being viewable. The tag may be tamperproof so that the tag is destroyed and rendered unusable if the encapsulation case is broken in order to remove the collectible.

[0005] Security chips, such as security chips with wireless (e.g. , RFID) antennas, may be placed in a collectible item when the collectible item is first manufactured, after the item is manufactured but before the item is distributed to end users through a sales channel, and/or placed in an encapsulated case or on a tag for an encapsulation case. Information about the collectible (e.g. , a unique identification number) may be stored on the chip. The chip may also be accessed in order to confirm the identity of the collectible as well as access additional information about the collectible (e.g. , blockchain data, collectible data, manufacturers data, storage data, grading data, appraisal data, authentication data, etc. ) .

[0006] Any data may be stored in any manner and any structure. For example, data, such as ownership data of a collectible, may be stored in one or more different types of systems (e.g. , ledgers that utilize unique numbers, or token, to describe each unique item, ledgers that utilize non-fungible tokens on private blockchains, ledgers that utilize non-fungible tokens on public blockchain, and any combination thereof) . For example, a ledger may be a private database ledger or and/or private blockchain ledger is provided where a unique identifier (e.g. , a token such as a non-fungible token) is provided for each item. The unique identifier may be utilized to retrieve information associated with the item such as the previous and current owners of the item, the transaction types and prices (if applicable) for the item, as well as any other information (e.g. , name of item, year of manufacture, product, product set or grouping, detailed description, images, etc. ) . Accordingly, when a collectible item is first received, a unique identifier (e.g. , NET) may be created or assigned to the received item and the name of the submitting owner may be associated with this unique identifier. For example, the information may be stored or an information retrievable link may be stored in the NET or in a data structure associated with the unique identifier. All information or a part of the information may be publicly accessible. Accordingly, for example, ownership information may be publicly available such that, for example, prospect acquirers can see the ownership chain of an item from the time it was received by, for example, the vaulting marketplace. After an item is shipped, ownership update services may be continued. For example, suppose the owner that shipped the item out of the vaulting marketplace sells the item to a new owner on an unknown marketplace may, for example, a request for an ownership update may be provided by either owner and the owner that shipped the item may confirm the ownership change and the ownership chain may be updated. Suppose after a certain number of ownerships occur (e.g. , 5 or more) the item is provided to the vaulting marketplace for storage. In this situation, the pre-existing NFT or unique identifier may be updated based on the vaulting marketplace transactions without the need to verify an ownership change from, for example, an unknown marketplace. A secure chip provided in a collectible or attached to a collectible (e.g. , via an encapsulation case) may be utilized to retrieve, for example, the stored identifier (e.g. , the token or NET and associated information) .

[0007] Accordingly, a collector may send more than a hundred or more than a thousand collectible items in a shingle shipment for image capture, listing on a marketplace, secure storage, etc. The collector may be provided with multiple price tiers based, for example, on submission requirements. For example, if the user submits information about each collectible then the user mat be provided with a lower fee rate than if the user just submits the collectibles without any information. Accordingly, a submission form is provided in which a collector can list all items being submitted. Each item may be associated with a submission item number. The user may be required to place an identification marketing (e.g. , a sticker) with each item to identify the item. The information that may be required to be entered by the user for a lower fee tier may be, for example, the year of manufacture, collectible name, product, set information, subset information, variation information, desired listing price, desired insurance amount, and/or any other type of information. Collectors may be required to obtain the lower fee tier to package the items in particular ways (e.g. , group different types of collectibles together) and place them in removable protectors (e.g. , removable trading card soft cases such as penny sleeves or semi-rigid solders, removable trading card hard cases such as rigid top-loaders) . Each collector may be issued a collector and/or mailbox identifier and/or an order number to place on the exterior and/or interior of the submission package. [0008] Collectibles may be received in various forms. For example, collectibles may be received in unencapsulated form of a circulated collectible (e.g. , raw form) , encapsulated form of a circulated collectible (e.g. , an authenticated and/or graded collectible) , and/or uncirculated directly from the collectible manufacturer. When a package is received for storage, scanning, listing on marketplace, and/or additional services, the order identifying information may be read autonomously (e.g. , via an automated object character recognition process or barcode reader) such as determining a user mailbox and/or a user order. Once the order has been determined, a process may autonomously generate encapsulation tags for all unencapsulated collectible items that are to be scanned and encapsulated. An incoming inspection process may retrieve submitted collectible items and match the tags for a submission item to the submitted collectible. For example, users that submit may be required, for example, to meet the requirements of a certain price tier to identify each collectible with an item number. The printed tags may each be associated with a different item number. Accordingly, an incoming inspection may associate a printed tag with a collectible item. These tags and collectible items may be placed in a removable protective structure so that the tag and collectible item may be physically transported together with one structure. The collectibles may then be transported to an encapsulation station for that type of collectible (e.g. , comic, trading card, etc. ) and the collectible may be encapsulated in an encapsulation case with the tag. After an encapsulation case has been formed around the collectible and tag, the encapsulation case with the collectible and tag may be image captured through an image capturing process. Collectible that are received in encapsulated form (e.g. , collectibles previously encapsulated by the receiving entity or third party authenticated and/or graded items) may be checked against the submitted information. For example, a third party encapsulated item may have a tag with a third party unique identification number. This third party unique identifier may be read (e.g. , autonomously or manually) from the received encapsulation case and compared against the unique identifier supplied by the submitting user to verify the identifier received is the same as the identifier that was submitted. If the identifier is not matched, the process may assume the submitted identifier was in error and may update the identifier on record for the received item as the identifier read at the receiving entity. The third party encapsulated case may then be utilized for image capture, storage, listing on the marketplace, and/or additional services.

[0009] An encapsulated case may have multiple encapsulation case pieces. Such pieces may be permanently fixed together in a variety of ways such as, for example, ultrasonic welding and/or adhesives. A collectible trading card may have, for example, a two piece encapsulation case that provides a first cavity for a trading card and a second cavity for an informational tag. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that trading cards may have various sizes, shapes, and thicknesses. A third insert structure may be provided, for example, that reduces the size of a cavity to a smaller size for smaller trading cards so that encapsulation case portions may be utilized for different sized trading cards. Any number of encapsulation case portions may be utilized. For example three, four, or more than four encapsulation portions may be utilized. Increasing the number of encapsulation case portions may decrease the size of each encapsulation portion which may, for example, enable improved staking of encapsulation case portions during shipping and reduce the overall cost of the encapsulation cases. For example, an encapsulation case for a toy may have four encapsulation case portions and may utilize two copies of two different encapsulation portions (e.g. , two copies of a dual sidewall encapsulation portion and two copies of a top/bottom encapsulation portion) . Collectible items may also be received directly from the manufacturer and may, for example, be marked as such on an identification tag. Bulk collectibles may be designed to have a different process than the encapsulation of all items in a received lot. Items may be identified as being encapsulated, not encapsulated but imaged, and/or not encapsulated using a representative image. Accordingly, a collectible manufacturer may submit a bulk number of items (e.g. , 1000 trading cards of the same trading card) and a single trading card may be imaged and that image may be utilized for all received images when listed on, for example, a marketplace or collectible management system. Collectible items individually images or associated with a representative image may be stored in, for example, removable cases where collectibles may be removed without destroying the cases either as single collectibles in a case (e.g. , a removable semi-rigid protector) or as multiple collcetibles in a case (e.g. , a box that stores over 10, over 100, or over 1000 collectibles such as trading cards, comic books, toys, and/or any type of collectible) .

[0010] An encapsulation case may be optically transparent so that images of one or multiple sides may be taken simultaneously or during the same image capture process using the same image capture setup. Accordingly, for example, a conveyer may move encapsulated collectibles through to an imaging station, either individually or as a multiple encapsulation case batch, where images are captured of the collectible in the encapsulation case so that, for example, one or more perspectives of the entire encapsulation case is captured so that the case, the collectible, and/or the informational tag may be observed in the captured image (s) . Multiple cameras may be utilized in an imaging process. For example, a camera may be stationed on one side of an encapsulation case and a second camera may be stationed on a different side of an encapsulation case. The images may be taken together in a process (e.g. , simultaneously) and then stored in association with one another. The informational tag for the encapsulation case may have an unique identifier and the images may be retrieved at a different time and the identifier read (e.g. , via OCR and/or barcode determination) and utilized to store the image (s) , or associate the images, with information associated with that unique identifier (e.g. , blockchain data for that collectible item' s identifer) Multiple identifiers may be utilized and a identifier association file may be utilized, for example, to store the various unique identifiers for a particular item or items . Different types of images may be captured from one or more cameras. For example, visible light images, infrared images, and/or ultraviolet images may be captured. An infrared and/or ultraviolet image may be captured, for example, by illuminating a collectible object in infrared and/or ultraviolet and capturing images while the collectible item is illuminated. Images may be taken at different resolutions. Additionally and/or alternatively an image of a particular resolution may be down converted to a lower resolution and the down converted resolution may be displayed on a webpage such that, for example, the receiving entity maintains a record of higher resolution images than the images made accessible to the users of the receiving service. Various types of images (e.g. , infrared and/or ultraviolet) may be sold for a supplemental fee or may require, for example, a particular membership tier to access.

[0011] Images may be utilized, for example, to provide an automated authentication and/or grading process. For example, the dimensions of a collectible may be determined through one or more captured images and these dimensions may be checked, for example, against a database with the standard dimensions for that collectible. If the dimension captured is outside of the range of dimensions acceptable for a collectible, the automated process may determine a likelihood of alteration and may store this information with the record for the collectible and make this information accessible to the owner of the collectible or, for example, all users on a marketplace that lists the item for potential sale. An automated grading algorithm may, for example, determine if the corners of a collectible (e.g. , corners of a trading card, comic book, and/or toy box) are of a particular dimension (e.g. , a right angle with an acceptable degree of tolerance) and quality (e.g. , straight and not have indentations or other types of potential wear) and may provide this data, as well as assign a grade based on a grading scale, to the collectible or this attribute of the collectible. Multiple attributes of a collectible (e.g. , surface, corners, edges, dimensions, centering, coloring (e.g. , fading) , etc. ) may be determined, graded, and stored with information associated with the collectible. An overall grade may be determined using determined grades of attributes. Corner dimensions, corner wear, edge dimensions, edge wear, color depth, card length dimensions, card width dimensions, card thickness dimensions, surface wear, UV-detectable collectible adjustment, IR-detectable collectible adjustment, and/or visible spectrum detectable collectible adjustment may all be determined from stored images and/or additional captured data. For example, data may be captured, for example, using any sensor such as laser distance measurement, LIDAR, temperature creation and sensors to detect temperature reaction, and/or any other data collection system. Data associated with attribute authentication and/or grading and/or collectible authentication and/or grading may be, for example, retrievable by a user on a platform (e.g. , with or without a fee) . An encapsulation case may be broken, a new tag printed that includes the authentication and/or grading information , and the new tag and collectible may be reencapsulated in a permanent encapsulation case .

Alternatively, for example , a supplemental tag , such as a supplemental hologram, may be permanently fixed to the exterior of the encapsulation case . An autonomous grading algorithm may have a vers ion number and this version number may be as sociated with a grade . In doing so , for example , users may purchase grading services each time an algorithm i s updated if desired . Multiple holograms for various services may be permanently fixed to the exterior of an encapsulation case and/or printed on an informational tag ( e . g . , a new information tag ) and/or stored with data as sociated with a collectible . Accordingly, for example , an encapsulation case may have multiple holograms and/or tags that note dif ferent algorithm versions and the results of the grade . A tag may be alternatively be placed on the exterior of an encapsulation case . Any third party that offers a digital grading may be sent captured image s and/or data and may provide their own grade . A hologram or another tag such as an exterior case tag may be permanently fixed for such a grade . In doing so , for example , a collectible may be graded by multiple grading authorities . Alternatively, a third party service may be sent the encapsulation case for third party grading and the encapsulation case may or may not be broken for grading and re-encapsulated after grading . The receiving entity may receive a request for a third party grade and the receiving entity may break the case and send the unencapsulated collectible to the third party for grading and re-encapsulation . [ 0012 ] A registry of collectibles may be provided that averages all the grades for each individual collectibles using a straight average or a weighted average so that collectibles or groups (e.g. , sets) of collectibles may be ranged and/or sorted by a combined grade .

[0013] One or more websites may access stored data regarding received and stored collectible items and may offer services. Websites may have different levels of access. For example, a central website platform may have access to items imported from a number of spoke website platforms. The physical collectible items may be stored in the same facility but may only be managed from the website platform that the collectible is associated with at a particular time. Accordingly, a wine vaulting platform may be utilized to market receiving, vaulting, scanning, buying/ selling/ trading/ auctioning, authentication, grading services, and/or other services to wine collectors . A trading card vaulting platform may be utilized to market receiving, vaulting, scanning, buying/ selling/ trading/ auctioning, authentication, grading services, and/or other services to trading card collectors . Each platform may store the items in one vaulting system administered by one entity which may include one or more separately located physical vaults. Any platform may store the items in a separate vault administered by a third party or administered by the administrators of the platform. Items may be moved between platforms without, for example, requiring the physical item to move. Accordingly, a central vaulting system may be provided with a central marketplace and spoke marketplaces may be provided (e.g. , a marketplace for wine on one website and a marketplace for trading cards on a different website) . In doing so, for example, a wine collector may purchase a bottle of wine digitally one website and export the wine to a central collector platform and sell that bottle of wine on a marketplace for that central collector platform without the wine bottle ever moving from its secure storage (e.g. , vault) . Physical items may be physically transferred between physical vaults, for example, by physical secure vehicles . Such transportation may occur at periodic times (e.g. , monthly) or upon certain events (e.g. , a full truckload is ready for transportation to a vault or vaults) . In doing so, for example, items may be physically transported between storage facilities without requiring, for example, any change to any website platform. The location of a physical item may be provided on, for example, a accessible platform (e.g. , website platform and/or native application on a device such as a mobile device platform) so that collectors can be shown the location as well as storage facility capabilities (e.g. , facility certifications) and can be provided estimates of shipping cost, handling cost, tax cost, and/or any other type of cost as well as other data such as, for example, time to retrieve and package an item, time for an item to travel during shipment from the facility to the user' s shipping address, or any other type of data. [0014] Collectible items may be purchased and/or traded individually or in groups via secondary transactions (e.g. , secondary sales) or directly from a manufacturer. A transaction may be, for example, a split purchase and trade where a certain number of items and money is utilized to obtain the same or a different number of items. Items purchased may be designated as being new (e.g. , sealed in original packaging) or used (e.g. , sold in a form other than the original packaging) . Items may be randomly inserted into packs of items (e.g. , packs of trading cards) and sold as packs of one or more randomized collectibles . Randomized collectible packs whose contents are not known to the buyer at purchase (or trade) may be sold in packaged with a pre-determined number of additional packs in sealed boxes and these sealed boxes may be packaged with a pre-determined number of additional boxes in mini-cases and these mini-cases may be packaged with a pre-determined number of additional mini-cases in sealed cases. Items may also be sold in packages for a discount. For example, a certain number of bottles of wine or comic books or trading cards (e.g. , a dozen items) may be sold for a bulk price that is cheaper than the summation of the individually sold prices .

[0015] Achievement rewards, such as one or more digital-only (e.g. , a digital-only NFT collectible) and/or physical items or benefits (e.g. , reduced fees, ability to purchase a particular item, or any other type of benefit) , may be earned by users that reach certain milestones. Such milestones may be, for example, time limited and/or quantity limited. A collector may be limited or not limited in the number of achievements the collector can qualify for and receive. For example, a milestone may be completing a collector of a particular grouping of items (e.g. , a set of trading cards, a complete run of a series of comics, a bottle of a brand of wine over a set number of years) . To earn an achievement, a user may be required to accept a status change of the items used to earn the achievement. For example, a collectible item may have a status of whether or not the collectible item has already been used to earn one or more milestones . I f a collectible item is used for any milestone or a particular milestone the status may be changed so that the collectible item may not be able to be utilized to earn any more achievements or a particular achievement . In doing so , collectors may place a higher monetary value on a collectible item that has not yet been utilized to earn a particular achievement than a collectible item that has been utili zed to earn a particular achievement . Multiple collectible items may need to be destroyed or abandoned by a user in order to earn a particular achievement . Accordingly, 100 cards may need to be destroyed or abandoned to earn an achievement so that the user gives up the 100 items in order to , for example , get ownership of the achievement . A collectible item may be split into multiple different type s of collectible items . Accordingly, a collectible item may represent 10 different collectible items and may be split into these 10 different collectible items . As per a different example , a collectible item may be split into fractional shares of the collectible item so the fractional share may be transacted ( e . g . , bought/ sold/auctioned/traded ) . Rules may be established for fractional ownership and, for example , the f ractional ownership may autonomously be recombined into a single collectible upon a certain event ( e . g . , a maj ority of the fractional collectible owners agree to ell for a certain price ) and all fractional shares may be automatically transacted and the buying entity may be provided with the re-constituted collectible before the f ractional ownership split occurred . [0016] One or more collectible items may be, for example, transacted through a private offer. Owners of a collectible item may, for example, provide an automatic offer price for a sale to occur. Auctions may be provided for items . An ability to set a future bid price at a future time (e.g. , a pre-determined number of seconds before an auction completes) may be utilized to transact an item. An extended bidding process may occur where a period of time (e.g. , 5 seconds, more 5 seconds or more, 1 minute or more, or any amount of time) is added each time a bid occurs starting at, for example, a period of time before the auction ends or at the auction end time if a bid has been placed in at least a particular amount of time from the original end time.

[0017] Items that are encapsulated may be placed, for example, individually in an inner box or together with multiple items in an inner box. The inner box(es) may then be placed, for example, in an outer box and/or enclosed in a plastic bag or other material. Additional protective material (e.g. , foam chips, crumpled paper, bubble wrap) may be placed in any layer of the packaging (e.g. , inner box and/or outer box) . Encapsulated items may, or any item may, for example, be shipped without an inner box. An encapsulated case, for example, may be more durable than an inner box and cost may be reduced, for example, in shipping an encapsulated case without an inner box in an outer box (or outer packaging such as an outer sealed bag) . Long-term removable storage cases fabricated from hard plastic and/or metal and/or other long-term durable material may be up-sold to consumers and used as inner/outer boxes so, for example, the consumers have a long-term removable storage case that can be used by the consumer to store the items at home and/or transport items between locations (e.g. , between collector conferences) .

[0018] A receiving, scanning, encapsulation, storage, marketplace, and/or additional services/products may provide one or more fee structures. For example, annual membership tiers may be sold at different prices (e.g. , bronze tier at $100 or below a year, silver tier at $200 or below a year bur larger than bronze, gold tier at $300 or below a year but larger than silver, platinum tier at $500 or below a year but larger than gold, diamond tier at $1000 or below a year but larger than platinum. Each item stored may carry a set amount of insurance (e.g. , the amount the collector paid to have the item stored, scanned, imaged, placed on a marketplace, and/or other services/products) . Each membership tier may add an additional amount of insurance or become the amount of insurance for a user' s collection of items .

Accordingly, a bronze tier may have $10,000 or less insurance, silver tier may have 25,000 or less but more than bronze insurance, a gold tier may have $100,000 or less insurance but more than a silver tier, and so on. Additionally, a membership tier may provide a user with discounted pricing versus no membership tier or lower cost membership tiers. For example, receiving, scanning, encapsulation, storage, and marketplace listing may have a per item fee for non-members . Members may have lower cost pricing for this per item fee than non-members. Additional fees may be applied if, for example, a submitting user does not want to utilize a submission form that lists the submitted items, an autonomous grade is desired, non-standard images are desired compared to a standard image (s) (e.g. , a visible image or set of image (s) included in a submission fee) , third-party physical grading, third- party digital grading, autograph authentication upon which a successful authentication may result in the application of a signature authentication hologram to an encapsulation case, third-party autograph verification, and any other additional product and/or service .

[0019] Users that provide collectible items may be provided, for example, a recurring percentage (e.g. , 2.5% or more) of all sales of that collectible item for a period of time (e.g. , ten years or less) on the marketplace of the receiving, storage, and/or listing entity. The recurring percentage may be capped per sale or capped for all sales. In doing so, a recurring, long-term incentive may, for example, be provided to users to increase the number of submitted collectible items. Collectible items that are encapsulated may be shipped to a purchasing collector and then re-submitted at a later time to the receiving, storage, and/or marketplace entity and the receiving entity may determine the encapsulated item was previously submitted and provide the recurring percentage to the original submitting collector. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that a recurring percentage may be provided to a subset of users of the receiving, storage, and/or marketplace platform such as, for example, collectors that meet particular criteria (e.g. , provide collectible items during a certain time period and/or provide at least a particular number or at least a particular value of items ) .

Brief Description of the Drawings

[0020] The principles and advantages of the present invention can be more clearly understood from the following detailed description considered in conjunction with the following drawings, in which the same reference numerals denote the same structural elements throughout, and in which:

[0021] FIG. 1 is an illustration of a collectible item and architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

[0022] FIG. 2 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

[0023] FIG. 3 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

[0024] FIG. 4 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

[0025] FIG. 5 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

[0026] FIG. 6 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

[0027] FIG. 7 is an illustration of flow charts constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention; [0028] FIG. 8 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

[0029] FIG. 9 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

[0030] FIG. 10 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

[0031] FIG. 11 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

[0032] FIG. 12 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

[0033] FIG. 13 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

[0034] FIG. 14 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

[0035] FIG. 15 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

[0036] FIG. 16 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

[0037] FIG. 17 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

[0038] FIG. 18 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention; [0039] FIG. 19 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

[0040] FIG. 20 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

[0041] FIG. 21 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

[0042] FIG. 22 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

[0043] FIG. 23 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

[0044] FIG. 24 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

[0045] FIG. 25 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

[0046] FIG. 26 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

[0047] FIG. 27 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

[0048] FIG. 28 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

[0049] FIG. 29 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention; [0050] FIG. 30 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

[0051] FIG. 32 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

[0052] FIG. 13 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

[0053] FIG. 34 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

[0054] FIG. 35 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

[0055] FIG. 36 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention; and

[0056] FIG. 37 is an illustration of a collectible item architecture constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention.

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0057] FIG. 1 shows collectible item 101 which may be, for example, any type of item or collectible item such as trading card 102, comic book 103, ticket 105, poster 106, video game 107, action figure 108, memorabilia 109, shoes 110, or other collectible type 1011.

[0058] Collectible 101 may be encapsulated in encapsulation case 120 that may include encapsulation housing 212 with a tag cavity for tag 122 and a collectible cavity for collectible 123. Encapsulation case 120 may be permanently formed by fixing multiple encapsulation case portions (e.g. , two, three, four, or more than four) together using, for example, welding (e.g. , ultrasonic welding) and/or one or more adhesives (e.g. , a chemical, pressure, light cure such as UV cure, temperature, and/or time adhesive) .

Encapsulation case 120 may be fabricated from one or more transparent materials such as polystyrene, polycarponate , polyethelene terephalate, and/or acrylic. Encapsulation case 120 may be fabricated from rigid materials.

[0059] Encapsulation case 130 may be fabricated from a rigid transparent housing 131 for housing semi-rigid encapsulation case 132 that may include a first cavity for tag 133 and a second cavity for collectible 134. A semi-rigid encapsulation may be fabricated from multiple portions of semi-rigid material (e.g. , 10mm- 14mm, particularly 12mm thick polyethylene terephalate) that are permanently fixed together (e.g. , via an adhesive or a bonding such as ultrasonic welding and/or thermal bonding) . For example, semi-rigid encapsulation case 132 may include two layers of polyethylene terephalate where one or two of these layers include, for example, pre-fabricated cavities for one or more tag(s) and/or collectible ( s ) . The prefabricated cavities may be formed, for example, via a heat press and/or a molding process. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that the corners of any cavity or cavities (e.g. , a collectible cavity but not a tag cavity or a collectible cavity and a tag cavity) may be bubbled/extended out so that the corners, for example, of a collectible with 90 degree corners is not physically able to touch the corners of a cavity. Encapsulation case 131 may have a single cavity for encapsulation case 132. Such a single cavity, for example, may be formed, for example, from one or more transparent rigid encapsulation case portions that are fixed together (e.g. , ultrasonically welded together) that have a full cavity for a collectible or a part of a cavity for a collectible. For example, one portion of case 132 may have a full cavity for a collectible or two portions of case 132 may each have a portion of a full cavity for a collectible such that, when fixed together, a full cavity is formed.

[0060] An autonomous machine may be provided that may permanently destroy an encapsulation case in order to, for example, free a collectible and/or a tag from the encapsulation case without damage. A tag may, for example, be fabricated in a way that is destroyed when attempted to be removed from an encapsulation case. For example, a tag may be permanently fixed to an encapsulation case (e.g. , via an adhesive) or may be not be bonded to a cavity of an encapsulation case so the tag can be removed if the case is destroyed. Such an autonomous machine may, for example, cut an encapsulation case using a laser cutting process and/or mechanical cutting process.

[0061] An entity may provide a platform for performing value-added services for collectible items such as, for example, manually and/or autonomously receiving collectible items, documenting collectible items, printing informational tags for collectible items, encapsulating collectible items, scanning / providing image capture of collectible items, authenticating collectible items, providing a condition grade for collectible items, providing secure storage in a variety of storage locations such as different levels of security of physical security vaults, providing insurance for the collectible items, appraising collectible items, listing collectible items on marketplaces where the collectible items may be purchased, sold, tradeand for other items, and/or auctioned, socially communicated via forumns, message boards, email communications, mobile phone text communicaitons , third party website/API pushes, and/or any other type of product and/or service for an item, service, and/or collectible item. In doing so, for example, a user may store a physical item on the platform and the platform may perform all physical activities associated with long-term collecting services so that the user does not have to perform any additional physical interactions with the collectible itself and can provide digital instructions to the platform to perform collecting related actions when the collecting related actions are desired by the user.

[0062] Shelving 140 may be utilized, for example, to store encapsulated collectible items. Shelving housing 140 may include structure 144 that may include one or more encapsulated collectible cavities 145. Structure 144 may include cavities on both sides such that one or more collectible items may be stored on each side of structure 144. Shelving 140 may be, for example, any dimensions such as 8 feet tall or less by 4 feet wide or less and may be, for example, twelve inches thick or less. Shelving 140 may, for example, include more than one thousand cavities, five thousand cavities, or ten thousand cavities. The same number of a different number of cavities may exist on different sides of shelving 1144. For example, 3,000 or more cavities may be provided on one side of shelving 140 and 3,000 or more cavities may be provided on a different side of shelving 140. A cavity may, for example, have one opening on one side of shelving 140 or multiple openings on multiple dies of shelving 140. Cavity 141 may include item 142 and 143. Cavity 141 may, for example, have one opening on one side of a shelving. Multiple collectible items may be stored in a cavity. For example, item 142 may be located on a side of cavity 141 close to the opening of a cavity and item

143 may be located behind item 142 further away from the opening to cavity 141.

[0063] Shelving 146 may include one or more wheels, such as wheels 147, so that shelving 144 may be transported. Additional features may be included on shelving 140. For example, identification indicia (e.g. , barcodes and/or identification alphanumeric characters) may be printed on or adhered to shelving

144 to identify, for example, a row of cavities, column of cavities, and/or individual cavities. For example, a QR code may be provided at location 149 to identify the row of cavities that includes cavity 145 and 146. Accordingly, humans as well as autonomous robots may be able to identify the location of a particular cavity. In doing so, for example, an autonomous process may receive one or more orders to ship one or more collectible items and a route may be autonomously determined to retrieve the items associated with the order or orders for shipment (or other activity where item(s) are to be retrieved such as a re-image capturing request) .

[0064] Shel ving 150 may be included that may include structure 151 and one or more cavities such as single item cavity 152 that includes encapsulated item 153. A cavity may, for example, store an encapsulated item such that a portion (e.g. , 2% or more, 5% or more) of the item extends outside the cavity. For example, encapsulated item 154 may be fully inserted into a cavity but may still extend outside the cavity. An autonomous device, such as an autonomous robot, may be utilized to insert and retrieve encapsulated items (or non-encapsulated items) using one or more actuator tools 155 for performing actions such as picking up items such as encapsulated items. Autonomous device 156 may have motorized wheels 157 and actuated rotating joints 158 so that multiple axis of movement (e.g. , two, three, four, or more than four axis of movement) can be achieved. For example, x, x, z, rotation, pitch, and/or yaw movements may be achieved by tool 155. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that a cavity may store different numbers of encapsulated items based on the size of the encapsulated items but may be configured, for example, for a fixed number of items in each cavity (e.g. , one, two, and/or more than two) . Different shelvings may be fabricated with different cavity sizes so that different shelvings are used for different types of collectibles. As such, one shelving may be for encapsulated trading cards of a standard trading card size and a different shelving may be for silver age comics .

[0065] Process 160 may be included that includes step 171 in which a user completes a user submission form for an item submission. A submission form may be included (or not included) and may include user supplied information such as, for example, year of item, name of item, set/sub-set of item, variation of item, if already encapsulated or if not encapsulated, company that provided encapsulation, encapsulation grade (if any) , estimated value, desired insurance amount, desired insurance percentage (e.g. , if user has an insurance package having a total coverage amount) , services desired for each item (e.g. , grading, listing on a particular marketplace such as the receiving entity' s marketplace or a third party marketplace such as a third party auction company) . The submission form may be provided physically (e.g. , on paper) or digitally (e.g. , via an online form of an online submission of a form) . User 172 may be provided shipping information such as a mailbox number and/or order number in addition to an address to send the shipment to as well as instructions for proper packaging of a shipment (e.g. , to place items in particular protective structures and mark each structure with an item number from a submission form) . Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that a user may provide multiple shipping address and instructed to send different types of items to different shipping addresses in different packages. The shipment may be received in step 173 and identifying information may be captured (e.g. , manually and/or autonomously) to determine the items in the package without opening the package. Informational tags may be autonomously printed in step 174 for all or a subset of submitted collectibles. Such informational tags may be printed, for example, before, during, or after a package is opened. Accordingly, informational tags can be printed after the shipment is received and before an action is required to be performed with informational tags. Multiple stations may be utilized for receiving packages and each station may have one (or more than one) person. Each station may have an informational tag printer. When a station receives and identifies a package, informational tags associated with the items in a package may autonomously start to print. Different states of collectibles may be in a package such as encapsulated and unencapsulated (e.g. , raw) collectibles for one or more collectible types (e.g. , trading cards, comic books, video games, toys) . Informational tags may be printed for pre-determined types of collectibles (e.g. , all or a particular subset of unencapsulated collectibles) . Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that different sizes of informational tags may be associated with different types of collectibles and different printers may be utilized, for example, to print the informational tags associated with different types of collectibles that have different sizes of informational tags . Informational tags may alternatively, for example, be pre-printed before a shipment arrives (e.g. , after a shipment is submitted or a shipment is mailed) . [0066] An digital storage structure, such as a digital non-fungible token, may be created for each collectible that is received or a subset of collectibles received at the same time an informational tag is printed or at a different time (e.g. , a different time before a package is opened) . Digital storage structures and informational tags may be created and printed, respectively, after a package is opened. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that an NET may already exist on the platform for a received collectible item. The collectible item may, for example, have been previously received, encapsulated, listed, sold, and shipped to the buyer. That buyer, or a subsequent buyer, may have desired to re-store the item with the platform. In such an instance, for example, a new NET could be created. In such an instance, for example, the previous NET could be retrieved and utilized. Such an NET could be, for example, a blockchain (e.g. , private and/or public blockchain) and/or a non-blockchain NET and/or tokenized data. For example, an NFT may be a multiledger blockchain that can be utilized on a public blockchain (or more than one public blockchains) as well as one or more private blockchains. Such a multiledger NFT may have different memory sectors assigned to different ledgers. For a public blockchain, for example, the platform may be the transacting entity so that users of the platform do not need to be issued individual public blockchain wallets. An NFT may include, for example, the same information and additional information to the informational tag or different information. For example, a stored data structure for a collectible item may include the name and/or handle of the submitter, the date of submission, the state of submission, the services to be rendered and/or rendered, the name of the collectible and other collectible information (e.g. , informational tag inf ormationO , marketplace price and historical transactional data, and any other information (e.g. , the identity of the person that performed a step any process of a platform) . Accordingly, for example, a digital data structure, such as an NFT may be created for each collectible that stores identifying information for the individual that submitted the item as well as a chain of custody for owners of the item throughout the life of the item on the platform or after existing the platform. Accordingly, for example, if a fraudulent collectible item is found, the submitter can be identified as well as any other items the submitter deposited. Accordingly, a service may be provided after an item is shipped to a purchaser that requests shipment (e.g. , instead of continued storage) that permits an data storage structure to be updated with future ownership transitions . Suh a service may, for example, charge a recordation update fee and utilize a request from the current owner of record to transfer to a new owner and a verification of that new owner as well as the entry and verification of additional data (e.g. , type of transaction such as monetary and/or non-monetary as well as what was exchanged such as the item(s) exchange and/or monetary amount in a particular or a user defined currency as well as any tax and/or shipping costs and/or any other data fields such as buyer and/or seller comments as well as the form of exchange such as name of an auction house where an exchange occurred) .

[0067] Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that other types of identifiers such as NFTs may be utilized by third parties. Identifiers of such third party NFTs may be stored in a data structure and such NFTs may be imported into the receiving platforms processing (e.g. , blockchain) or the management of the NFT may be transferred to the receiving platforms management system such as a blockchain management system.

[0068] Step 176 may be included and unpackaged items that are encapsulated may be provided to an image capture process that may take multiple images of the collectible of one or more sides of a collectible from one or more perspectives in one or more spectrums of light (e.g. , visible, infrared such as near-infrared, and/or ultraviolet) . Such an image capturing process may be started after, for example, the information marked on a received encapsulation tag matches submitted information. For example, a third party may encapsulate a collectible and provide a unique identifier from that third party. Such a unique identifier may be confirmed manually or autonomously as being the same identifier submitted by the submitter and may be record in a data structure associated with the collectible which may also have its own unique item identifier. Accordingly, a data structure may house multiple unique identifiers across multiple entities (e.g. , the receiving entity and a third party entity) so that these identifiers may be utilized in various processes across various entities.

[0069] Step 177 may be included. If, for example, a collectible is received and has not yet been encapsulated by an entity, an informational tag (e.g. , a pre-printed tag) may be associated with a received collectible. Submitters may be provided with instructions to package items, mark the item with an item number on a submission form, and package them in a particular order (e.g. , a numerical item order on a submission form) . The submitter may be instructed to provide a collectible item in a removable case that can also house an informational tag. Accordingly, informational tags may be printed out for collectibles in the same order as the submission was configured so that the first collectible correlates to the first printed informational tag. A station may manually or automatically receive an item, determine if the item is for the expected informational tag, and, if so, place the informational tag into the removable protective structure of the collectible item. Alternatively, for example, the collectible may be removed and put in a new removable protective structure with an informational tag. Alternatively, still the collectible item in its removable protective structure may be placed in a larger removable protective structure with an informational tag for the collectible. Alternatively, still, the collectible and tag may be placed in respective cavities of one or more encapsulation portions. Encapsulation case portions may be permanently encapsulated at the same station as unpackaging and information tag association station (if such processes are performed at the same station) . [0070] Step 178 may be included in which a tag and collectible is retrieved (e.g. , from a protective structure) and permanently encapsulated into a encapsulation case. For example, a trading card and an informational tag for that trading card may be encapsulated in a transparent encapsulation case associated with the size, thickness, and shape of that trading card. Furthering the example, informational tag may be printed on both sides with information such that both major sides of the tag are visible on both major sides of the trading card encapsulation case. [0071] Step 179 may be included in which an image or set of images may be captured of an encapsulated case with a collectible and informational tag. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that images may be associated with the entire encapsulated case as well as images associated with a part of the case (e.g. , the collectible item and/or tag) . Images may be captured alternatively, or in addition to, encapsulated case images in the form of images before encapsulation. For example, the collectible and/or tag may be images individually without any encapsulation case before encapsulation. Additionally, the shipping package may be imaged. Video may be taken of any and all activities (e.g. , activities that include a collectible item) from multiple perspectives and the video may be stored for a period of time before auto-deletion (e.g. , 90 or more days) if not kept for further availability or may be stored and not deleted. Images and/or video may include visible, infrared, ultraviolet images/video . Objects (e.g. , collectible items) may be bathed in various types of light or other environmental influences (e.g. , heat, pressure, etc. ) and images/video may be captured. Such captured data may be utilized, for example, to authenticate and/or grade a collectible or to increase the amount of information provided on a marketplace or other listing (e.g. , a showcase) of a collectible item so viewers of those destinations may have increased data n on the collectible item.

[0072] Step 180 may be included in which received and/or imaged collectibles are stored. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that a storage structure having multiple collectible shelves and/or collectible reception cavities may be wheeled next to an automated and/or manual image capture station (e.g. , a semiautomated image capture station) and encapsulated cases may be stored in the storage structure. After the storage structure is full, the storage structure may be moved to a storage location such as a permanent storage location. Such a permanent storage location may be next to the last placed full storage structure at the end of an aisle of storage structures . The storage structure may then be placed on, for example, the floor and bolted to the floor. Thus, the wheels may be removable or may be part of a wheeled structure to carry the storage structure (e.g. , a storage structure moving structure) . The location (e.g. , cavity) of storage on a storage structure ay be recorded, for example, when the item is determined to be placed in that storage structure and the location of the storage structure in a facility may be recorded, for example, when the storage structure is determined to be placed in the location of the storage structure. Upon receiving a request, for example, to shipment outside of the facility or perform an action that requires the physical collectible item, the item may be retrieved from storage and the shipment and/or additional action (s) (e.g. , digitally grading, digitally authenticating a signature, capturing higher resolution images, moving to a higher security vault) may be performed. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that additional actions may be recorded digitally (e.g. , on an NET) as well as physically (e.g. , via a hologram on the exterior of an encapsulation case such as a hologram or other label noting a digital grade, physical grade from a third party, autograph verification, or any other action) .

[0073] Process 190 may also be included which may include step 191 in which orders are received to ship collectibles from one or more owners. Step 192 may be initiated in which a retrieval map is generated for retrieving the desired collectibles. Collectibles may be retrieved in step 193 and organized into individual orders. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that a robot may retrieve orders and may include a storage structure subdivided into sections and different orders may be placed in different sections and in multiple sections associated with a single order. Collectibles for an order may be verified in step 194 and shipped in step 195. Stored data associated with the collectibles may be updated in step 195. For example, an NFT may be updated with shipping information such as date and time of shipment and shipment method (e.g. , carrier and service level) . Additionally, tracking information as well as shipping address or any other information associated with the collectible, any transaction associated with the shipping, or the shipping itself maybe included (e.g. , verification the shipment was received may be stored in the data structure (s) and/or NFT (s) ) .

[0074] FIG. 2 shows architecture 210 in which encapsulation stations 211, 212, 214, and 215 encapsulate collectible items as well as additionally desired objects (e.g. , informational tags, security chips) into an encapsulation case such as a rigid, fully transparent encapsulation case. Encapsulation stations may perform additional activities such as, for example, receiving packages, sorting packages, unpackaging packages, printing informational tags and any additional items for an encapsulation case (e.g. , a hologram for inside or outside an encapsulation case verifying a signature such as, for example, if the signature is verified before encapsulation) , data entry for collectible data (e.g. , if no submission data was provided, data verification for collectible data (e.g. , if submission data was provided) , printing of informational tags, association (if applicable) of information tags with collectibles, encapsulation, and any other actions . Encapsulation stations may include image capturing system(s) . Encapsulated items may be manually transported or autonomously transported (e.g. , autonomously transported via conveyed 213) to manual and/or automated image capture system 216.

Encapsulated cases may be stored in portable storage unit 217 that may have one or more cavities for holding one or more collectibles . Spacing between cavities may be, for example, 1 millimeter or less (e.g. , 50 thousandths of an inch) . Removable wheeled device 219 may be utilized to move storage unit 217 and may include one or more wheels 220. Wheeled device 219 may be, for example automated so that shelving is automatically moved to an available storage unit location .

[0075] A storage unit with open storage cavities that can be assessed from one or multiple (e.g. , bothO sides of the storage unit may be wheeled to an partially constructed aisle of storage units. For example, storage unit 231 that may include cavities such as cavity 232 may be rolled in direction 233 to abut storage unit 236 having cavities such as cavity 237 and which abuts storage unit 239 that may have collectible storage cavities such as cavity 238. Empty walking/driving space between aisles of storage units may, for example, be 3 feet or less, 4 feet or less, 5 feet or less, 6 feet or less, or 6 feet or more. Decreasing empty aisle space between aisles of storage units may increase, for example, collectible storage density in a facility. Autonomation (e.g. , automated vehicles) may be, for example, less than the width of the aisle space such that automation may travel down the aisles . An automated vehicle may have more than one tool for holding collectible items (e.g. , encapsulated cases with collectible items) so that multiple tasks can be performed simulatenously (e.g. , multiple retrievals or a retrieval process in combination with a storage process) . One or more shelves may be provided at different stationary or movable heights so that if an actualted art was included the actuated arm may place items on the shelf and not have to return to a particular position storage/retrieval location about the vehicle. For example, an arm may take an item for storage, move the item to a shelf a certain distance in the air (e.g. , 3 feet) , place the item, retrieve and item, place the retrieved item on the shelf, place the original item into the shelf and then return the retrieved item to storage (e.g. , located at the base of a vehicle) . An automated vehicle may have a base approximately around the center height of a storage unit so an arm may approximately travel the same distance for the highest stored collectible and the lowest stored collectible. [0076] Computer recognizable indicia (e.g. , barcodes, characters) may be placed around the ground, ceiling, shelving, and robot to help the robot determine its location as well as the location of a particular storage unit, shelf on the storage unit, cavity of the storage unit, etc.

[0077] Human readable indicia (e.g. , aisle numbers, row numbers, cavity numbers) may be placed about a storage facility for manual storage and retrieval. A projection or other system (e.g. , laser system) may be utilized to highlight collectibles and/or cavities for retrieval. For example, a manual retriever may be given a red circle as an indicator and a map of locations. Projectors (e.g. , overhead projectors) may project a red circle on the cavities or about the cavities where collectibles are waiting for retrieval and/or locations for storage. Accordingly, for example, a human may be optically assisted by a visual indication system. Augmented/mixed/virtual reality may also, for example, be utilized via, for example, a head mounted display system.

[0078] Automation may be provided on the shelving itself. For example, each cavity may have a mechanical actuator that is electronically triggered to move (e.g. , push) a collectible out of a cavity. The collectible may then be taken by a conveyer to a station. The collectible may be pushed to a slide and the slide may move to a conveyer. Protective covers may be placed on any storage unit. For example, protective covers may be suspended from the ceiling and may lowered to cover one or more storage units during a time, for example, when the storage units are not being accessed .

[0079] Storage units may be fabricated differently for different types of collectibles through, for example, the formation of different sized cavities. For example, a storage unit the same height and width for comic books may have large cavities and may store less encapsulated comic books than, for example, a storage unit the same height and width for standard trading cards, which may have relatively small cavities and may store relatively more encapsulated standard trading cards. [0080] Pe rsons skilled in the art will appreciate that at any time the owner of a collectible and/or a prospective purchaser of a collectible may request an additional service such as a service that leverages additional image capturing. For example, after a collectible item is retrieved a new service may be introduced such as a service that captures images under different lights, filters, lens apertures, or other image capture attributes, to assist in determining (e.g. , via a computer algorithm^ the richness of color throughout a collectible in order to provide a condition grade on fading. Accordingly, a stored collectible item may be retrieved, additional image capturing may occur, a fading condition grade may be autonomously determined, a hologram associated with this fading condition grade may be obtained, the hologram may be fixed (e.g. , heat fixed) to the surface of the encapsulated collectible, and then stored in the same or a different cavity and/or location in a storage facility .

[0081] FIG. 3 shows encapsulated case portion 310 that may include, for example, tag area 317, collectible holding area provided by flanges 312, 313, 135, 314, and collectible cavity flange 316. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that a collectible may be stored between holding fanges 312-315 so that the corners of the collectible may not physically contact collectible cavity flange 316. The features of encapsulated case portion 310 may have any dimensions proportional or not proportional to the dimensions indicated about portion 310. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that the features of any encapsulated case portion may have different dimensions that are proportional or not proportional to any provided encapsulated case.

[0082] Encapsulated case portion 320 may be an encapsulated case for any item and may have any dimensions and may be utilized to form an encapsulation case. For example, encapsulation case portion 320 may be a side view of, for example, encapsulation case portion 310 of FIG. 3.

[0083] Encapsulation case portion 340 may be, for example, an encapsulation portion that is permanently boded to, for example, encapsulation case portion 310 of FIG. 10. Encapsulation case portion 340 may include informational tag cavity portion 345. Cross section 343 may be , for example, encapsulation case portion 351 of encapsulation case portion 350, which may include portion 353 provided as encapsulation portion 354 that includes extension 355 and lip 356. Cross section 344 may be, fore example, encapsulation portion 361 which may have portion 363 shown as portion 364 which may have exterior extension 365 and interior extension 366. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that exterior extension 365 may be utilized, for example, to assist in mechanically assisting encapsulation case stacking so cases do not slide on the surfaces of one another when stacked but mechanically fit utilizing exterior extension 365. Furthermore exterior extension 365 may lift the surface of adjacent encapsulation cases off one another in order to, for example, reduce scratching on the cases.

[0084] FIG. 4 shows, for example, encapsulation case 410, which may include informational tag area 415 and collectible flanges such as collectible flanges 411 on encapsulation case portion housing 413. Encapsulation case portion housing 421 of encapsulation case portion 402 may be, for example, a cross section of an encapsulation portion and may include area 423 that may be area 430 which may include housing 423 and extensions 433, 434, and 435.

[0085] Encapsulation housing portion 422 may be a cross section of cross section 445 of portion 440 that may include housing 441 informational tag area 442 and also include cross section 443 that may be housing 462 of portion 462 and may include area 463 that may be area 470 which may include housing 471. A side view of an encapsulation case portion may be provided in portion 451 that may include housing 452 and lip 451. [0086] FIG. 5 shows topology 500 that may include, for example, communications medium (s) 501 that may be, for example, any combination of wired, wireless, internet, intranet communications mediums. Any entity or process or other structure of topology 500 may communicate unidirectionally and/or bidirectionally with any other entity, process, and/or structure of topology 500 through communications medium (s) 510.

[0087] One or more public and/or private blockchains (e.g. , or other ledger such as a database that represents unique items with unique identifiers) may be provided in ledger (s) 502. One or more services and/or marketplace ( s ) may be provided in mar ketplace ( s ) 505 which may be, for example, trading platforms, buy/sell platforms, private offer platforms, auction platforms, finite ending time auction platforms, auction platforms with multiple bidding phases such as pre-bidding, primary budding, and/or extended bidding sessions, and any other type of ownership transaction platform where items, for example may be transacted between owners for monetary amounts and/or different collectible items. Marketplaces 505 may, for example, enable fractional ownership and include fractional royalties associated with all future ownership transitions or a portion of future ownership transitions (e.g. , buy/sell transactions but not trading transactions) . Services and marketplace ( s ) 505 may also include receiving items, recording and verifying data associated with the stored items, creating and managing data storage structures such as NFTs for each item, image capturing, storage, shipping, and any other actions and services. [0088] One or more auction house (s) 508, such as third party auction houses, may be utilized for example by services and marketplace 505) . A receiving, storage, and marketplace platform may, for example, have options for collectible owners to auction their items at different auction houses and/or request that an auction house review the item and verify the auction house would auction the item and under what terms (e.g. , an offered buyers premium, offered share of a sellers premium, type of auction such as an live weekly auction or a live monthly or quarterly auction) . The collectible owner can then accept an offer for an auction or may provide a counteroffer. The receiving, storage, and marketplace listing entity may, for example, obtain a referral fee (e.g. , a revenue share) of items sourced by third party entities for sourced collectible items. Additionally, for example, third parties, such as third party auction houses, may source items for a receiving, encapsulation, image capture, and/or storage service and may obtain a referral fee, value share, and recurring value share (e.g. , a percentage of marpletplace sales for a period of time such as more than 1 year, 10 years or less, or any period of time) for sourced items. For third party services that ship collectibles, for example, a shipping option may be to send the item(s) to a receiving, image capture, and/or storage entity and may also include a sign-on to that entity. An entity' s sign-on may be utilized on a website for any other entity, for example, in order to, for example, assist with increased customer identification, security, anonymity, and/or services.

[0089] Third party services 509 may be any third party services such as third party services that may digitally or physically provide value-added benefits to a collectible (or other item) . For example, third party service9s) 509 may include shipping services, courier services, armed courier services, autograph authenticators, independent consultants for data entry, data verification, item authentication, item grading, and/or any other, for example, value added service to a collector, collectible item, or any other entity and/or object. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that any actions of topology 500 may be performed at any one entity or provided across any number of entities (e.g. , a subset of entities or all entities) of a topology.

[0090] One or more grading companies, such as grading companies 510, may be provided. Grading companies may, for example, white label a platform (e.g. , a receiving, scanning, storage, platform) so that the grading company can provide the platforms services on its websites. A storage facility may white label storage so that items can move between platforms of different entities (e.g. , be imported and/or exported) without moving the physical item.

[0091] One or more appraisal services 507 may be added and may be utilized to, for example, appraise an item as well as project an appraisal if the item, for example, met certain criteria such as met certain grading criteria. In doing so, for example, a collectible may be appraised and a value for various condition grades may be provided such that a collector may better determine if grading would be economically beneficial as well as what grading company would be economically beneficial. Accordingly, a appraisal service may also appraise items in different grades from different grading entities even if, for example, the item is not yet graded with a particular grading company and/or has not yet been graded at all.

[0092] One or more insurance services, such as insurance services 504, may be provided. Insurance services may, for example, provide an entity, such as entity 505, with a particular amount of coverage and the insured entity may then partition the insurance coverage to different platform users based on, for example, the platform users membership tier, estimated value of the user' s collection, and/or number of collectibles in the user' s collection. Supplemental insurance may be sold to a platform user, for example, for an additional fee. One or ore remote database (s) and/or services may be added to a topology and may assist, for example, with information brokering between entities as well as, for example, be informational centers in which information may be received to enhance the capabilities of an entity. Information may be retrieved, stored, updated, altered, deleted, or any other action such as the implementation of access permissions based on entity, entity status, or any other attribute or set of attributes.

[0093] Process 560 may be included and may include step 561 where a collectible item is received, for example, by a facility or an entity that manages multiple facilities. If an item is received that is determined to be encapsulated, then encapsulation occurs in step 562. If an item is received that is determined to be autonomously and/or physically graded then the grading process may be performed in step 563. Person skilled in the art will appreciate that the order of any steps may be changed and the actions in those steps may be changed to increase and/or decrease. Collectible items may be submitted with a list of services that are desired to be applied. If additional services are desired (e.g. , enhanced imaging, selling through an auction website, provisioning to a plurality of third-party physical and/or digital grading services) then such activities may be performed in step 564.

[0094] Process 570 may be included and may include step 571 in which a user of a platform requests to purchase an item such as a collectible item. A determination if, for example, adequate funds are available may be performed in step 572, which may be performed by the platform (e.g. , a check against stored-value on the platform) or a third-party (e.g. , a third-party wallet) . If adequate funds are available, the transaction may be completed in step 573 and the owner of the collectible item may be updated in step 574 which may include an update to digital storage structure associated with a unique identifier for the collectible item (e.g. , an NET) .

[0095] Process 580 may be included and may include step 581 which may determine if an item transaction qualifies for downstream revenue sharing. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that a platform may provide not just revenue sharing on a transaction but revenue sharing on future transactions as an additional incentive. Accordingly, for example, suppose a third party grading company sells or refers a membership to a new customer and the new customer submits a collectible item. The third-party grading company may be provided with a referral fee, acquisition fee, revenue sharing on any or a portion of services associated with the submitted item, a fixed and/or percentage amount of a sale, and/or a fixed and/or percentage amount of future sales (e.g. , for a period of time such as 5 years or less or 10 years or less) . Step 582 may determine if an item qualifies for revenue sharing with one or more entities and, if applicable, provide the revenue sharing (e.g. , deposit value into a stored value associated with the entity on the platform or on another platform such as on a third-party wallet) . As incoming collectibles are received, revenue sharing can be determined in step 583 and, for example, if no revenue sharing assigned determine if revenue sharing is to be assigned in step 584. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that a referral fee may be provided to multiple entities or a single entity. If a single entity is entitled to a revenue share on current and/or future value associated with an item, step 583 may determine if an entity is already assigned for that revenue stream and, if not, an entity may be assigned in step 584. In doing so, for example, a single entity may be provided with a referral revenue stream across current and future value creation events (e.g. , marketplace sales) and other entities may be blocked from qualifying for the revenue share as an entity has already qualified for a revenue share. A unique identifier associated with an item may be utilized, for example, to track revenue sharing, such as referral revenue sharing, for one or more entities for a collectible item.

[0096] FIG. 6 shows architecture 600 that may be utilized as an architecture for any electronic and/or electromechanical system such as an autonomous system, automated vehicle, mobile device, processing platform, or any other structure (e.g. , an automated storage unit with embedded travel and guidance tracks having automated deposition and retrieval robots) ) .

[0097] One or more processors 601 may be included in architecture 600. Such processors 601 may, for example, include secure data storage (e.g. , secure flash and/or secure ROM) . Manual inputs 602 may be included which may be, for example, manual and/or virtual buttons such as a virtual button on a graphical user interface. Any number of displays and/or visual indicators (e.g. , light sources such as LEDs) may be included as indicator (s) 603. Image and/or data capture device (s) 604 may be included. Additional sensing device (s) 605 may be included. Contact and/or contactless input and/or output port (s) may be included as port 606. Accordingly, remote devices may communicate with architecture 600 through wired and/or wireless communications through, for example, contact and/or contactless port (s) 606. Any number of speaker (s) and/or microphone ( s ) 607 may be included. Positioning device (s) 609 and/or locating devices (e.g. , GPS, local positioning, telemetric locating, or nay type of locating/positioning) may be included in positioning device (s) 609. Accordingly, for example, a device may determine where in a facility or in the world the device is located. Robotic arm(s) 610 may be included in any device (e.g. , on a storage unit to retrieve and place collectible items in one or more storage units) . Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that collectible item manipulator tools may also be included in architecture 600. Any number of image and/or data capture devices 611 may be included. Any number of motor (s) 612 may be included such as, for example, motors to rotate a movement system such as, for example, a movement system with wheels and/or tracks. One or more sources of energy 613 may be included which may be, for example, one or more batteries such as rechargeable batters as well as one or more external sources of energy that are utilized to provide power via a wireless and/or wired power transmission process/system. One or more internet (s) and or intranet (s) may be utilized by architecture via connectivity 614. Auxiliary data storage device (s) 616 may be provided such as remote data storage such as remote single or multiple facility cloud data storage. Remote processing may also be provided and utilized by architecture 600. One or more additional ports 617 amy be included. Any additional peripheral device9s) 618 may be included such as, for example, any additional robotic device (s) 618. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that multiple robotic devices may work in tandem to provide a solution. For example, multiple robots may be used to retrieve a list of collectible items and if one robot experiences a delay in retrieval another robot that has not experienced the same amount of delay may adjust its operations so the total time to retrieve all items (e.g. , items from both robots) is impacted .

[0098] FIG. 7 shows flow chart 710 which may include step 711 in which an item is received. Step 712 may be included in which a type of protector is determined for the received collectible. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate, for example, that a collectible may be received with a dimension that does not yet exist for an encapsulation case. Accordingly, step 712 may determine if an encapsulation case exists and, if so, to encapsulate the item and, if not, to place the item in a removable protector until an encapsulation case is fabricated. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that some entities (e.g. , collectible manufacturers) may not desire all items to be encapsulated and may desire specific types of protector cases. Accordingly, a process may be provided that determines a type of protector based, at least in part, on whether a particular protector is available (e.g. , an encapsulation case is available) and/or whether a specific type of protector has been requested by the submitting entity. Step 713 may be utilized to determine if a protector is to be sealed and what type of seal. For example, a protector may be an encapsulation case and may be encapsulated or may be removably placed in an encapsulation case if encapsulation is not yet desired (e.g. , placed removably in a bag such as a transparent polymer bag) . An item or items (e.g. , a collectible item and an informational tag) may be placed in a protector in step 714. Image (s) and data may be captured and collected in step 715 of a collectible item and/or an protected collectible item. Image (s) and data capture may be performed with a collectible item without an informational tag and/or a collectible item with an informational tag. A collectible item may be determined to be listable (e.g. , listable on a marketplace) in step 716. Such a determination may be based, at least in part, if all processes have occurred for a collectible (e.g. , encapsulation, imaging, and any additional services requested such as autonomous grading, third party grading, or any other submitter requested activity) . Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that a submitting user may be provided with the opportunity to list an item if, for example, the user has not identified an item for automatically being listed on a marketplace (e.g. , at a submitter provided list price) . Accordingly, the owner of the collectible may list an item on a marketplace (e.g. , a buy/sell marketplace) or may perform an ownership transition transaction (e.g. , a trade) after, for example, an item is determined to be listable (e.g. , a set of conditions for an item to be listable is determined to have been met) . Step 717 may be included and may include any activity such as receive requests to list (e.g. , from the collectible owner) , sell items, ship items, permit NET updates post-shipment, and/or any other activity related to a collectible item.

[0099] Flow chart 730 may be included and may include step 731 in which blind pack breakers may be included with encapsulation equipment and encapsulation cases. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that blind pack breakers may encapsulate items on video while breaking a blind pack and provide this video or a portion of this video to a platform such that the video is linked (e.g. , via an NET or other data storage element for a collectible item) to a collectible so that platform users such as future owners may view the video and see the collectible item pulled from a blind pack and placed in an encapsulation case in the same video. An informational tag for a breaker encapsulated collectible may include, for example, information on the name of the breaking company, name of the breaker, and time and date of the break and this information may be printed and/or included in a data storage element associated with the collectible item (e.g. , an NET) . A breaker may sell a blind pack or packs to an individual in step 732 (e.g. , may sell a sealed, blind box of sealed, blind packs) in step 732. Step 733 may be included in which an individual receives a collectible (e.g. , a trading card) from a break and requests encapsulation from the breaker. Person skilled in the art will appreciate that a breaker may automatically encapsulate an item form a break, an item of a particular value, a particular type of item (e.g. , all autographed cards) as well as, for example, charge an encapsulation fee or not charge an encapsulation fee (e.g. , but encapsulate after a request from the owner for encapsulation) . A breaker may capture video of the break and/or encapsulation of the collectible item(s) with any custom printed or non-custom pre-printed informational tag. Video of the break and/or encapsulation may be associated with the NET for an item in step 735 and breakers may ship the item to a receiving and storage platform in step 736 and may submit submission fees to the platform. The receiving platform may determine the item is in an encapsulation case and may perform imaging and/or data capture on the encapsulation case. A breaker specific hologram may be placed on an encapsulation case in step 737 and may, for example, provide a verification and authentication from a receiving platform that an item was encapsulated directly from the breaker as a result of a break and that conditions, for example, for receiving the hologram were met. A hologram may be breaker specific or may be a hologram for all breaking entities. A breaker may also provide a grading system and such grade information may be placed digitally in a digital data storage structure (e.g. , an NET) or physically by printing a grade on a label or providing a hologram associated with a grade, for example, on the exterior (or interior) of an encapsulation slab or other type of protector .

[0100] Fl ow chart 760 may be provided and may include step 761 in which a live stream of a collectible is purchased. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that a collector may desire to see his/her collectible item while it is in storage located remotely from the collector. Additionally, the collector may desire the collectible to be viewed publicly or viewed by a sub-set of people (e.g. , users of a platform such as the receiving and/or storage platformO which may be a pre-determined list of users defined, and updated, by the owner of a collectible. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that a non- owner of a collectible may request a live-stream, or any other activity such as enhanced image capturing, grading, authentication, and the owner may be provided with an opportunity to approve such additional action and/or may pre-define that all or a subject of actions may or may not be taken by a non-owner. A owner of a collectible may or may not be provided with the option to stop and/or approve an action of a non-owner such as authentication and grading, for example, so long as the non-owner pays for the action. The collectible item or collectible item(s) may be moved to a live stream camera location in step 762 and the live stream may be started and the owner may be provided with a website link where the live stream may be viewed. The owner may request and/or purchase a live stream event for a particular amount of time and may select from different environments such as, for example, placing a particular background or other item (e.g. , TV and/or stock ticker and/or news ticker) with the collectible item. For example, a user may request the item be rotated on a rotational platform and the background be a historical list of prices achieved for the collectible or for other examples of the same collectibles (e.g. , other examples of the same collectible in the same grade if graded) . Accordingly, for example, a marketplace showcase or auction showcase may include a live stream of an actual item. The collector may receive a link to a live stream in step 763. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that a livestream may have a camera or multiple cameras perform a procedure to deliver multiple different types of images and/or video. For example, a user may purchase a multiple spectrum and closeup live stream package where the front and back of the image are both on a livestream and images and/or video may be provided in visible light and then infrared light (e.g. , near infrared) and then ultraviolet light and then a closeup scan may be made at one or more magnifications (e.g. , 20x or more and then 30x or more) across the entire portion of the collectible or certain areas of the collectible (e.g. , corners) . A live stream may have a time counter noting the time remaining in step 764. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that a owner and/or one or more non-owners may be provided with controls to control one or more cameras and the data may be delivered privately to the person controlling the camera (s) or publicly or to a subset (e.g. , users watching a live auction or on a particular marketplace) . Accordingly, for example, a non-owner can purchase a livestream and can examine a collectible before purchasing. Video and/or data from a livestream may be stored and saved with the collectible so future users can view the video. Video and/or data may be stored just for the users account, for example, that paid for the video and this video may be made public or available to an updatable list of users by the purchaser of the video. Certain membership tiers may include, for example, a certain amount of live streams and/or live stream time. When a livestream completes or is at a pre-determined time before completion, an option may be provided to extend the livestream (e.g. , for an additional cost) . Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that high-definition images of the collectible in one or more spectrums may be captured and stored. The consumer may be given access to a subset of this data (e.g. , low resolution images of one spectrum) . A digital live stream may be provided, for example, where a user can examine and inspect a collectible by being given a control panel to control and/or navigate through the spectrum of light, location of collectible, and/or magnification of image and this event may be live streamed. In doing so, for example, a collectible may not be physically retrieved, but the high-resolution data may be digitally retrieved and controls may be provided so a collector may examine the collectible. Such digital examination may be provided, for example, to all users, users of a particular membership tier, and/or for a fee to examine a collectible for an indefinitely amount of time and/or a definite amount of time. Each user may, for example, be given an hour or more of high detail examination or 3 or more high detailed examinations a year at a particular membership level. Additional examination sessions may be provided at a higher membership tier (e.g. , a more costly membership tier) and/or for an additional fee. A live stream may be continued based on a user (e.g. , a customer) decision in step 766. Step 767 may be provided where a collectible is returned to storage (e.g. , the same storage location or a new storage location) in step 767. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that a collectible that is retrieved may be replaced with a different collectible such that the storage location is filled in the same process where the storage location is emptied. Accordingly, a collectible after live stream may be deposited in a different location. All locations may be digitally stored in a digital storage structure associated with the collectible (e.g. , an NET) so that all data locations may be retrieved and viewed (e.g. , by an administrator and/or customer of a platform) . [0101] FIG. 8 shows information tag 810 that may include material 811. Material 811 may be any type of material such as a coated or non-coated paper, polymer, and/or metal. An adhesive may be provided on one or both sides of the material 811. Tag 810 may include multiple types of different material. Tag 810 may include one or more embedded security chip as well as a contactless antenna and/or one or more electrical contacts that may be, for example, exposed on the surface of the tag to enable direct electrical contact with the chip. Informational tag 811 may include multiple lines of printed information such as, for example, information 812 and 813. An information tag may also include, for example, one or more segmented and/or matrix display and a source of energy (e.g. , a rechargeable battery) as well as controls (e.g. , manual input buttons) . Information lines 812 and 813 may include, for example, all or a portion of printed information associated with the issuance time (e.g. , month and year, year, or years) of a collectible, the subject matter of the collectible (e.g. , player) , the collectible name, the product name of the collectible, a set and/or sub-set name associated with the collectible, a product and/or collectible number (e.g. , from the collectible manufacturer) , the name of the collectible manufacturer, the original submitter of the collectible, the current owner of the collectible, information associated with a pack breaker if the collectible was obtained from a pack breaker, any authentication information (e.g. , the name of an authentication entity that authenticated) , grading companies and associated grades, a picture of the collectible, the name of the encapsulation company, the encapsulation date and time, the name of the encapsulation process or encapsulator (e.g. , the name of a worker or the number of a robot) , one or more unique identifiers for the collectible, one or more condition notes, one or more notes from an entity, the name of a user' s collection from which it was a part of, one or more barcodes and/or QR codes, or any other type of information. Printed seals/certif icates may be printed on the informational tag for each service and/or grading and/or authentication or any action, for example, previously performed by an encapsulation platform or a third party. Outlines of where holograms or other labels such as security labels may be applied (e.g. , on an informational tag or on an exterior of an encapsulation tag about the printed outline) . Accordingly, a hologram or a non-hologram label may be applied at location 814 or the information at location 914 may be printed on a label. For example, the corners of a collectible may be graded and this grade may be provided at location 814. Area 816 may include, for example, areas 814 and 817 for additional nonhologram labels and/or holograms. Indicia may be printed in locations 815 and 817 to indicate they are locations for additional labels and may include outlines for better placement of labels (e.g. , on the informational tag itself or on an area of a encapsulation case about these locations. For example, configuration 818 may be provided where a digital grading company digitally grades a collectible and an associated hologram is applied as hologram 819 on the area of an encapsulation case over location 815 and a different grading company digitally grades a collectible and a different hologram associated with that grading company and/or grade is applied on an encapsulation case around location 817. Accordingly, a collectible may have multiple grades (as a result of multiple grading service purchases) and these multiple grades from multiple entities may be provided on an encapsulation case without destroying the encapsulation case .

[0102] Informational tag 830 may be provided and may be, for example, a reverse side of an informational tag. Informational tag 810 may show, for example, the obverse side of the same tag as tag 830. Material 831 may be a different layer of material than the obverse side of a tag. Material 831 may be, for example, part of a larger piece of material that was folded so that one fold area is the obverse side of an informational tag and the another fold area is a reverse side of an informational tag. A website name (e.g. , website name of the encapsulation entity may be provided on the tag) . Persons skilled in the art will appreciate if a collectible is received and encapsulated direct from a manufacturer than the tag may be marked as direct from manufacturer (e.g. , DFM) and marked as authentic for being direct form the manufacturer. QR ID 932 may be provided and 2D barcade with or without a written indicia of all or a part of barcode information (e.g. , a collectible object ID) may be provided in area 833. Additional locations 834 and 835 may be reserved, for example, for post-encapsulation labels (e.g. , heat- fixed holograms) .

[0103] Encapsulated case 840 may be included that may include informational tag 841 that may be viewable from both sides of the encapsulation case (e.g. , a a transparent rigid encapsulation case) so that both sides of informational tag 841 are viewable. Person skilled in the art will appreciate that an informational tag may also include a top side (or sides or a button side) and these sides may have printed indicia and also may be viewable) from outside the encapsulation case. One or more secure processing and storage chips 842, 851, and 860 may be provided. Data storage and processing chips may be provided on an informational tag, embedded in an informational tag, encapsulated in an encapsulated case, embedded in the material of an encapsulation case, and/or provided on a collectible or in the material of the collectible itself (e.g. , embedded in a trading card such as a sports card) . A secure chip may be electronically coupled to an antenna (e.g. , an RFID antenna) . A device (e.g. , a mobile phone) may provide power to the RFID antenna to power the chip and may communicate with the chip unidirectionally and/or bi-directionally with the chip. For example, a secure handshake may take place to make sure the accessing device is properly identified as being able to access the chip. The accessing device may provide informationally bidirectionally with one or more exterior sources (e.g. , a remote authentication server and/or facility) to process information and/or protocols from the secure chip through the chip antenna through an accessing device' s antenna and through the accessing device (e.g. , accessing device' s processor) .

[0104] Area 850 may be utilized for one or more secure elements such as secure chip 851. Chip 851 may be, for example, applied to the exterior of a collectible or a protector inside the encapsulation case that the collectible may reside in. Overlay 852 and 855 may be applied over the chip which may include hologram 853 and/or barcode 856. A hologram with a barcode and/or a human readable identifier may be provided over a chip. The overlay may cover all or a portion of a chip, a chip and all or a portion of one of its antennas, and/or a chip and all or a portion of all or a portion of its antennas. In doing so, for example, a chip may not be exposed or only partially exposed .

[0105] FIG. 9 shows graphical user interface 900 that may be, for example, a native application or browser on a device such as a mobile phone and/or stationary computer. Digital address entry window 914 may be provided which may be, for example, a website address entry window and/or a search window for a search engine and/or a search window for a receiving and storage platform. Navigational controls 811, 912, and 913 may be utilized, for example, to move between location addresses. Virtual buttons 916-821 may be provided and may take a user to associated information such as, for example, a new graphical user interface (e.g. , a new webpage and/or new native application page) or a different location on a graphical user interface (e.g. , webpage and/or native application page) .

[0106] Virtual button 916 may be provided, for example, to provide information associated with monetization and value exchange activities such as buying, selling, trading, auctioning, or any other activity where value is exchanged between, for example, two or more users (e.g. , a group trade of more than two users) . Services may be added, for example, via virtual button 917, which may introduce a new page that provides a user with the ability to select (e.g. , purchase) services such as grading by the receiving platform, digital grading by a third party, physical grading by a third party, appraisals by the platform and/or third parties, additional insurance by the platform and/or third parties, enhanced image capturing by the platform and/or third parties, and/or any other service (e.g. , an action that may enhance the value of the collectible) .

[0107] Virtual button 918 may be provided and may provide educational and/or social features. For example, virtual button 918 may provide the consumer with any number of forums, message boards, private user-to-user messaging systems, chat rooms, educational documents like data on all or a portion of collectibles stored by entity providing graphical user interface 910 (e.g. , a receiving and storage entity) , physical and/or virtual games associated with the collectible (e.g. , physical claw machines and coin pushers that provide real physical encapsulated collectibles as awards) , achievements and rewards for collectors reaching particular milestones (e.g. , collecting a particular subset of cards, performing a subset of actions) .

Person skilled in the art will appreciate that all or a portion of data with each or a subset of collectibles such as collectibles for the user of graphical user interface 910 or all users of graphical user interface 910 that have marked collectibles as viewable and/or for sale on one or more marketplaces. Users may be able to search and mark collectibles (e.g. , store on one or more user identified or platform identified lists) as well as write private or public comments for each collectible. Set registries may be provided where people can publicly and/or privately track their progress toward collecting a set, collection of cards (e.g. , all cards of a player in their rookie year or years while playing or all years issued or of a particular manuf acutrerO . Sets may be ranked based on quality (e.g. , grading) , completion percentage, or any other metric. A straight average or weighted average may be provided to combine grades from different grading companies such as a weighted average based on the population of cards versus grades for each company or the percentage of value of cards publicly sold on particular exchanges (e.g. , on one or more auction sites ) .

[0108] For example, a collectors set in a collectible registry may be ranked on value. Value estimates for each collectible may be provided to a user. Collections in a collection registry may be ranked on value and different values may be associated with different collectibles, grades of collectibles, grades of collectibles from particular grading companies, and/or any other metric which may be provided and/or determined by the platform providing graphical user interface 910 or another platform (e.g. , a third party data provider) . A registry goal may also be dependent on collectible type such as for example a particular trading card set may have a different registry for graded versions of the cards from all grading companies, a subset of grading companies, or an individual grading company. A registry goal may be associated with, for example, raw cards from that set (e.g. , ungraded cards from that set) .

[0109] Registries and/or achievement milestones may mix collectible types such that, for, example a registry may be provided for 2010 collectibles from a particular brand and may include comic books, action figures, trading cards, and/or any type of collectible. [0110] Search tool 923 may be provided any may permit searching and/or filtering for any attribute of a collectible (e.g. , any attribute stored digitally and associated with the collectible) .

[0111] Virt ual buttons 927 and 928 may be associated with, for example, window 926 which may display, for example, one or more pictures (e.g. , manually or automatically scrollable pictures) of a collectible. Window 926 may be, for example, the picture of a collectible, a collectible in an encapsulation case, a portion of a collectible in an encapsulation case such as a portion including the collectible but not the informational tag, a picture of one collectible in a group of different copies of the same collectible, or any other picture or data. Tools 927-928 may be utilized to initiate any action of the platform (e.g. , a life stream inspection event or adding a collectible to a list of watched collectibles) . Any portion of any graphical user interface may be clickable/actionable such as for example, window 926. Buttons 927 and 298 may be associated with window 926 and may be provided below window 926. Any button may be, for example, pictoral indicia so that, for example, iconography may be utilized by a graphical user interface and may provide a faster and less cluttered user experience. Alternatively, buttons 927-928 may include human perceivable alphanumeric characters and/or machine- readable indicia (e.g. , barcodes) . Accordingly, a user may be viewing an item on a graphical user interface on a stationary computer and take mobile phone and read a machine-readable indicia (e.g. , barcode) and for example, have an action initiated on the mobile phone (e.g. , the mobile phone is directed to a page of the graphical user interface) . Accordingly, for example, a user standing next to other users (e.g. , at a collectors conference) may view and share information easily from a graphical user interface. Multiple rows of virtual buttons may be included and may be included on any side or overlayed anywhere on a graphical user interface. For example, one or more buttons 930 may be located to the left of window 929, buttons 932 may be located to the right of window 931, buttons 954 may be located above window 933, buttons 936 may be overlayed on the button of window 935, buttons 938 may be overlayed over the bottom of window 936 while buttons 939 are not overlayed and located underneath window 936, and button9s) 942, button(s) 943, button(s) 944, and buttons (0941 are located on multiple sides of window 940. Additional windows may be provided such as window 943 which may be interactable element (e.g. , portions may be interacted with and/or clicked on) or may be a display-only element. For example, window 945 may include a list of past searches (e.g. , a list of a particular subset of past searches) , which may be interacted with to go to the past searches .

[0112] Graphical user interface 960 may be provided and may include frame 961 that may include buttons 962- 965, windows 966-969, and indicia 980-973. Button 962 may be, for example, a transact button that may provide a graphical user interface for selecting collectibles to buy, sell, trade, auction, or any other ownership transition related activity. Window 966 may show a image of a trading card (e.g. , an Eli Manning football trading card) . The image displayed may be a representative image if, for example, multiple copies of the sale Eli Manning football card are on the system. The representative photo may be selected, for example, from the highest graded copy, the highest sold copy, the most recent copy, the oldest copy, the copy with the highest volume of transactions, the copy with the highest average grade among multiple grades, or any other attribute. Informational indicia 970 may be included that may provide written indicia (e.g. , human readable alphanumerical data) that describes the collectible in window 966. For example, the Eli Manning may be a collectible manufactured and/or issued in 2010 and may be from the Apple set and the Alpha insert set and may be card 1 with the name of the card being Eli Manning and/or any other information. A checklist of all collectibles in a set of collectibles may be provided on the platform and whether or not one or more copies are owned, the number of copies owned, the value of all copies, the highest grade that is owned, etc. A checklist of all collectibles on the platform may be provided as well as summary data of a collection (e.g. , total number of collectibles owned, total number of unique collectibles owned, total number of collectibles of a type (e.g. , comic books, trading cards, coins, action figures, plush, etc. ) , as well as any other information such as the value of each collection of a type of collectibles (e.g. , a value of all comic books, a value of all trading cards, a value of all football cards, a value of all basketball cards, a value of all trading game cards, a value of all trading game cards of a particular trading card game) . The number of copies of a collectible may be shown about a window (e.g. , window 966) as well as how many copies are owned by the user as well as how many copies are for sale, or sale in a particular way (e.g. , open marketplace bid/ask, ask only, private offer) , how many are on auction, as well as third party data as to how many have ever been graded, how many are on all tracked third party auction or marketplace sites, etc. ) . Accordingly, a user may see data representative of not only the copies on the platform but also an understanding of the overall global estimated ecosystem and/or representation and/or availability for that collectible. Window 967 may be associated with indicia 971 and may include a representative image that is a pre-determined photo for the grouping (e.g. , predetermined by an administrator or an algorithm) . Person skilled in the art will appreciate that a predetermined content (e.g. , image, images, video) may be of a copy not currently on the platform and may be an image of a copy of a collectible that has never been on the platform. In doing so, collectible may be included that do not have a copy stored on the platform and such additional information may be helpful to a user of the platform. Collectible groupings, for example, may be organized in any way autonomously and/or manually be the consumer such as most copies first, least copies first, highest transacted, highest value, most graded, most ungraded, highest graded value, highest raw value, and/or any other attribute or sets of attributes. Window 968 may show a highest graded photo and be associated with indicia 972. Window 969 may be provided and may be a most viewed photo or a photo for a most viewed collectible and may be associated with indicia 973. Button 963 may be, for example, a button to change the images displayed for a collectible or group of collectibles and may be a selection to view graded images (if available) and may be the highest graded collectible that is graded. Button 964 may, for example, be utilized to switch to raw images (if available) . Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that a platform may encapsulate all collectibles of a particular collectible if an encapsulation case has been made and is available. Accordingly, a raw image button may be an full scale collectible image button where the image of the encapsulated collectible is cropped around the collectible so that the encapsulation tag and the encapsulation cases are not fully provided in the picture. Accordingly, a user may be able to view collectibles in different manners across a graphical user interface. Option 965 may be provided, for example, and may be any action of a platform.

[0113] Graphical user interface 980 may be provided and may include frame 981 that may include buttons 982- 985, windows 986-989, and indicia 988-990. Graphical user interface 980 may, for example, be provided if a group of copies of a collectible is clicked (e.g. , if a grouping of the same copies of a collectible of window 968 of graphical user interface 960 is selected by a user) . Window 985 may be a specific copy of a collectible and may show a collectible graded by a third party. Indicia 988 may include, for example, the name of the third-party encapsulation company and a grade (if applicable) . Accordingly, collectible copy 985 may have been graded from, for example, AZ grading and have a grade of 8.5 from AZ grading. Window 986 may be a different copy of the same collectible product 985 and may be graded by a different grading company with a different grade (e.g. , AA grading with a grade of 70 and a qualifier of PD for print defect) . Collectible copy 987 may be yet another copy of a collectible product and may be, for example, an autonomously graded copy that utilized captured digital images for the grading and may note in the indicia 990 a grade and/or particular attributes of a grade. For example, indicia 990 may include a grade for each corner of a collectible (e.g. , a 10 for a first corner, a 9 for a second corner, a 10 for a third corner, and a 10 for a fourth corner) . Button 981 may be utilized to transact a card. Each collectible may have a transaction button (e.g. , buy, sell, trade, auction, or another ownership transition action) . Option 982 may be provided and may permit a user to change all images on graphical user interface 980 to a selected spectrum of light or another type of image. Option 983 may be utilized to provide magnification options (e.g. , a closeup of just a card) and may include options to view particular features of a card (e.g. , view the four corners of a card in a single photograph) .

Accordingly, a consumer may be displayed a closeup of all four corners if the consumer determines the user would like to view all the corners of all copies of a particular trading card at the same time on graphical user interface 980.

[0114] FIG. 10 shows graphical user interface 1001 which may be a details page associated with a particular copy of a particular collectible. For example, graphical user interface

[0115] Graphical user interface 1050 may be provided for collectible 987 of FIG. 9 when collectible 987 of FIG. 9 is selected by a user. One or more images 1002 may be provided on frame 1049. [0116] Opt ion 1003 may be provided and may provide a user, for example, with the ability to combine collectible 1002 with one or more other collectibles as part of, for example, an achievement system that requires the destruction and/or abandonment of a collectible. Person skilled in the art will appreciate that a collectible may be a digital-only collectible with no underlying physical collectible.

[0117] Redemption option 1004 may be provided for example, to redeem a collectible as part of, for example, an activity, game, and or reward milestone. A redemption activity, for example, may mark a collectible as being redeemed or redeemed a particular number of times. A collectible may have a single redemption or may have multiple redemptions until exhausted or a set number of redemptions per owner or any combination thereof. Achievement criteria and/or images/videos of the achievement rewards may be viewed for al or a subset of all collectibles or those associated only with collectible 1002. NET data, or other stored data associated with a collectible, may be viewed with option 1006.

[0118] A user may select different collectibles and package them back into a pack and may create a set of re-packs and sell them on the marketplace. The listing of all re-packed items in a set of re-packs may be displayed and the collectibles remaining to be pulled may be displayed. Re-pack option 1007 may be utilized to select an item for re-pack or navigate to a graphical user interface with re-pack associated tools. Option 1008 may be utilized to see other copies of the particular collectible in graphical user interface 1049. Option 1009 may be utilized to sell or place a collectible for sale (e.g. , collectible 1002) . Option 1010 may be utilized to initiate a trade with a collectible (e.g. , collectible 1002) . Option 1011 may be utilized to initiate a grading process (e.g. , a particular third-party physical grading process from one or a list of third-party grading processes) . Option 1012 may be utilized to auction a collectible (e.g. , collectible 1002) such as auction a collectible to a selected auction house from one or a list of auction houses or to, for example, consign a collectible to a consignment service that manages an auction process at an auction house (e.g. , a third party consignment company for a different third party digital-only auction website) . Option 1013 may be utilized to grade a collectible with one or more digital grading processes at one or more entities (e.g. , the entity that provides graphical user interface 1001) . For example, different tiers of grading may be provided with different costs (e.g. , more than two tiers of grading each with a different cost) and a different set of attributes and/or techniques may be utilized for grading with the different tiers of grading. Such digital grading may utilize, for example, digital images and data of a collectible to provide a grade for that collectible. Option 1015 may be utilized to live stream a collectible (e.g. , collectible 1002) such as a private collectible inspection live stream and/or a public showcase live stream and/or a third-party inspection live stream. Option 1015 may be utilized to view and modify insurance levels and insurance providers for a collectible (e.g. , collectible 1002) . Option 1016 may be utilized to view and request additional appraisals for a collectible (e.g. , collectible 1002) . A comment may be privately, publicly, temporarily, and/or permanently added to a collectible and viewed using, for example, option 1012. Option 1018 may be utilized to request a review of a collectible for a quote and acceptance to auction from one or more auction houses. A registry for the collectible or registry associated with a collectible or a overall collectible registry may be accessible, for example, utilizing option 1019. Option 1020 may be utilized, for example, to select a collectible (e.g. , collectible 2020) as being a top collectible for an owner (e.g. , a top-10 list) and these top collectible lists may be viewed for each collector on, for example, a collector profile page. Similarly, for example, a collector can indicate collectibles the collector wants to acquire as well as a top list of collectibles (e.g. , a top -10 collectibles wanting to own list and this also may be displayed on, for example, a collectors profile) .

[0119] Opt ion 1021 may be utilized to ship and/or export digital and/or physical collectibles (e.g. , collectible 1002) utilizing, for example, an address book or a manually entered destination address (e.g. , destination physical address and/or destination digital wallet such as an NET wallet) . Option 1022 may be utilized to purchase a re-holder or re-image package where a collectible is re-imaged or re-holdered (e.g. , re-encapsulated) . Option 1023 may be utilized for example, to turn ON a two-factor authentication for activities (e.g. , ownership transition activities) for a collectible (e.g. , collectible 1002) . A user may be able to toggle a two-factor authentication on for all items, a subset of items (e.g. , top-10 items) , and/or a specific item (e.g. , collectible 1002) . Notifications may be provided for any action (e.g. , an ownership transition activity) and notifications may be sent to using any form of communication (e.g. , an email, a text message, physical mail) . Notification options and types of notifications may be added, deleted, modified by the user for any collectible or activity on any platform. Option 1024 may be utilized, for example, to view users that are tracking an item on, for example, a desired collectible list. Option 1025 may be utilized, for example, to provide social tools suck as posting an item or activity or notification manually or automatically upon certain conditions on one, a select subset, or all supported social media sites. Option 1026 may be utilized, for example, to create fractional shares in a collectible (as well as combine fractional shares in a collectible to a full collectible or a larger fractional share collectible) . Additional options may be provided on one or more option buttons (e.g. , option 1027) .

[0120] Graphical user interface 1050 may be provided and may include content 1051 for a collectible (e.g. , collectible 1002 of graphical user interface 1002) and may be accessed when, for example, via an option or when a collectible copy image is selected on, for example, a detailed collectible copy information graphical user interface. Content 1051 may be, for example, an image in a pre-determined resolution and a user may change the resolution of an image. Content variations 1068-1073 may be utilized to show different representations of a collectible such as front image 1068, back image 1069, a profilometer output 1060, additional spectrum and/or data 1071, additional pictures 1072, and/or closeups 1073 (e.g. , a picture of the corners, edges, surfaces, and/or other attribute of a collectible. A user may click on any one of representations 1068-1073 and the selected representation may fill a larger window such as window 1051.

[0121] Opt ion 1050 may be included and may be utilized to, for example, change the magnification of one or more representations of a collectible (e.g. , one or more images of a collectible) . Option 1053 may be utilized to rotate a collectible. Option 1054 may be utilized to view corners. A magnified image, for example, may also be provided with controls so the magnified are on, for example, a larger image may be moved and viewed. A collectible having a break video may be included and viewed, for example, using option 1055. A picture may be saved and/or flagged as a favorite using option 1056. All pictures may be saved and downloaded (e.g. , to an external device) using option 1057. Pictures and/or other representations of a collectible may be purchased using, for example, option 1058. Data may be purchased for a collectible in step 1060 (e.g. , a detailed transaction history for a collectible may be purchased or a profilometer reading may be purchased) . Pictures may be edited and/or commented in step 1061 and shared publicly and/or kept privately and marked they are edited, who they are edited from, and when they were edited. In this way, for example, a collector could detect damage on a collectible (e.g. , a stain) and could add indicia (e.g. , an arrow, human readable alphanumeric characters that form words, or any other indicia) to one or more images to highlight to other users the damage. Users may be provided with a rating after every transaction and an aggregate rating may be provided for a user (e.g. , on a profile page) . Option 1062 may be included and may be an option for any activity for any platform or platforms. Indicia 1063 may be utilized, for example, to identify the collectible represented by representation 1052. Indicia 1064 may be, for example, the perspective of a displayed image and indicia 1065 may be a resolution of a displayed image and indicia 1066 may be a visible spectrum of a displayed image and indicia 1067 may be an actionable indicia to change to different representations.

[0122] FIG. 11 shows device 1100 that may include one or more housings 1101, speakers 1102, cameras 1103, displays 1104 (e.g. , touch sensitive displays) and/or buttons 1136. Display 1104 may include virtual, interactive indicia such as interactive buttons, menus, graphical indicia. Menu button 1106 may be included that may be utilized to navigate to a menu of options for device 1100. Device 1100 may be a portable or stationary computing device such as, for example, a stationary computer, a portable computer, a portable telephonic computer (e.g. , a portable telephonic device such as a portable cellular phone) . Viewing area 1110 may be, for example, a collectible and/or a group of collectilbes (e.g. , a collection of collectible) . A user may navigate to collectible 142 and/or collectible 1142 by interacting with the graphical interface (e.g. , providing a finger swipe command left and/or right over collectible 1110) . In this manner, a user may view the user' s collection with one (or more than one) collectible on a screen and navigate through other collectibles (e.g. , other user' s collectibles or collectibles that the user does not currently own) . Indicator 1111 may be utilized to indicate the general and/or specific location of the collectible being viewed among a larger set of collectibles that can be viewed through the current graphical user interface screen .

[0123] Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that collectibles may have value and may have ways to quickly obtain that value through liquidation.

Auctions may be provided on the scale of minutes and/or hours and/or days and/or weeks. Accordingly, collectible may be turned into monetary funds at any time. Graded collectibles may, for example, be more predictable in value as they are authenticated and similar to the same collectibles having the same grade. Indicia 1112 may be provided to indicate, for example, the total collectibles in a user' s collection. Indicia 1114 may be utilized, for example to provide an appraised (e.g. , a third-party appraised value) and/or estimated value (e.g. , autonomously determined value) . Indicia 1115 may be utilized, for example, to provide a collateralized maximum credit line that may be obtained if all of the collectibles were utilized, for example, as collateral for the line of credit. Accordingly, a collector may take an asset in storage and assign the collectible to a credit line and be provided with, for example, a lower rate, terms, and/or conditions. A user may select which collectibles they own are utilized or all collectibles may be utilized. In the event of a default, for example, the physical custody of the collectibles may be the receiving and storage entity so the ownership of the items may be transferred to the credit provider (e.g. , a bank) . Home mortgages, car mortgages, or any other type of loan of financial arrangement may be, for example collateralized all or partially with collectibles stored in a receiving and storage facility which ownership can be digitally changed on a pre-determined condition or condition sets agreed to by the owner and the entity managing the financial arrangement.

[0124] Addit ionally, for example, a entity may receive and store items and provide a pawn shop features where items may be re-purchased by the pawning entity in exchange for a fee and an interest. For example, collectibles may be pawned to the receiving and storage entity and the pawned collectible ( s ) may be returned to the pawning entity the pawning entity upon meeting certain conditions (e.g. , paying a certain amount) .

[0125] Window 1116 may be provided and may be a title and/or subtitle for a window. Window 117 may be provided and may include, for example, indicia 1118 in which a marketplace transaction is noted as a recent transaction where it was purchased with a credit card (e.g. , a credit card issued by the receiving and storage entity with a discount for the marketplace if the payment card is utilized) . The payment card may be a collectible collaborated payment card. Indicia may be utilized where an installment payment for a store or a collectible in a marketplace and may have equated monthly installment payments and may be, for example, a payment product managed, at least in part by, the receiving and/or storing entity and may be a collectible collateralized installment payment product. Debit and reward points may also be provided as payment products by a receiving and storage entity and transactions may be provided as indicia 1120 and 1121, respectively. A mobile wallet may be accessed by a user on a platform and may be utilized to make payments on the platform as well as outside of the platform. Button 1107 may be utilized to flip a collectible. Button 1108 may be utilized to collateralize a collectible. Button 1109 may be utilized to navigate to additional options associated with device 1100 and/or a collectible (e.g. , collectible item 1110) . [0126] Option 1131 may be provided to navigate, for example, to collectibles (e.g. , user owned collectibles and/or non-user owned collectibles such as marketplace collectibles) . Statements 1132 may be provided to navigate to, for example, ownership transactional statements, collectible payment statements, and/or financial product (e.g. , collateralized credit and/or installment payment cards) . Option 1131 may return to a home and/or default graphical user interface screen. Option 1134 may provide navigation to, for example, additional options and/or features. Collectibles maye added utilizing, for example, option 1135.

[0127] Pe rsons skilled in the art will appreciate that a collectible may have an embedded computer readable security chip and/or an identifying indicia such as a computer and/or manually readable indicia. Such information may be utilized to add a collectible to an account of the user. For example, a user may add physical collectibles to a collection of loaded but personally stored collectibles. A user may load a collectible manually by loading all requested information (e.g. , information in a submission form for submitting a collectible) as well as user captured images (e.g. , using a camera on device 1110) . At any time a user may select collectibles from the personal storage list and may generate a submission form and may electronically submit that form and be provided a mailbox and/or order number and/or customer identification to put on a shipping box with those items . Such a personally stored collection may also be viewable on a platform and may be listed for actions (e.g. , listed for sale at an ask price, listed for a private offer price) and may be transacted through the platform) . In such a transaction, the receiving and/or storage facility may be sent the items as an intermediary (e.g. , physical item brokering agent) and may verify the items as being as, for example, described or the items may be transacted directly between the parties. Transactions (e.g. , trades, partial trades /sales , and sales) may include both personally stored items and items stored at a receiving and/to storage entity separate from the personally stored entity.

[0128] FIG. 12 shows graphical user interface 1200 that may include a virtual representation of a facility and the status of collectible storage areas (e.g. , rows of collectible storage units 1201, 1202, and 1203) , autonomous retrieval and storage vehciles 1205 and 1207, robot collectible storage areas 1201 and 1206, and deposited vehicle storage units 1208, 1209, and 1210 next to manual shipment station 1211.

Accordingly, an administrator may view the status of a facility and its operation and may obtain data on its elements (e.g. , the power left in a robot) and may direct changes manually (e.g. , indicate a particular robot needs to be retrieved and repaired) or view the autonomous management (e.g. , the autonomous identification of a robot malfunction and an autonomous notification to a repair entity that the robot has malfunctioned and/or needs repaired) .

[0129] Graph ical user interface 1220 may be included and may include frame 1221 that may include virtual object selection window 1222 in which any number of storage units 1223, manual stations 1334, vehicle storage units 1225, and robots 1226 may be added to an environment (e.g. , enabled and disabled for retrieval, storage, and operation) . Individual collectibles may also be indicated by a virtual object. Area 1241 may show a live video of a facility. Area 1242 may show a different live video of the facility. Area 1243 may show a rotating video of parts of the facility as well as other facilities. Video may be stored and retrieved for security and quality so that, for example video may be retrieved to review for alleged collectible theft or a mistake (e.g. , to confirm the wrong item was sent in a package) . Accordingly, all receiving, unpacking, data entry, protecting, encapsulation, image capture, storage, retrieval, and additional activities may be recorded. Owners of collectibles may be given, for example, access to all or a portion of video that shows their collectibles .

[0130] Option 1251 may be utilized, for example, to import a virtual object. Option 1252 may be utilized, for example, to determine and change video settings (e.g. , change operational status of cameras, length of storage of video from cameras, type of storage of video from cameras, or any other setting) . Robot settings may be determined and changed through option 1253. Procedure settings may be viewed and changed in option 1254 (e.g. , robot operating procedures/processes and/or robot operating rules and/or steps and/or missions/ob j ectives ) . Zones may be added, removed, and/or modified in step 1255 (e.g. , recorded zones, operating zones for a robot, or any other zone based activity) . Option 1256 may be utilized to check the identity of all collectibles in all facilities, or a portion of a facility or facilities. This may be performed to confirm the presence of all collectibles (e.g. , in the case of an audit) or to located a misplaced collectible (e.g. , if a collectible is flagged with having an unknown location) . A subset of collectibles (e.g. , a type of collectibles) may have actions performed utilizing option 1257. Status and/or performance of any virtual object or process or activity may be viewed and acted upon utilizing, for example, option 1258. Any additional action may be utilized via option 1259.

[0131] FIG. 13 shows flow chart 1310 that may include step 1311 in which an object, such as a collectible, is retrieved (e.g. , autonomously or manually) . A collectible may be retrieved, for example, after a user (e.g. , the owner, an owner if the collectible is fractionally owned by multiple people, and/or a non-owner such as a non-owner looking to purchase a collectible) if permitted to by that user type upon a request and/or the payment of a fee. The collectible (or collectibles) may be placed under an investigation system in step 1312. Camera controls (e.g. , up/down/lef t/right controls, zoom/unzoom, different spectral bandwidths such as visible, ultraviolet, infrared, and/or light baths of particular colors) may be received in step 1313 (e.g. , from a website of the platform on a user' s mobile device or home computer) and one or more cameras (or other data acquisition devices) may be controlled based on the received controls in step 1314.

[0132] FIG. 14 may include encapsulation case 1400 that may include for example encasupalated housing 1401 that may store, for example, an object such as an action figure. Side views 1403 and 1404 may be side views of housing 1401. Lid 1402 may be placed about an opening of as associated case with an opening and ultrasonically and/or adhesively bonded together. The bond may be permanent such that, for example, housing 1401 may be broken to release an encapsulated collectible. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that a lid may be attachable to and removable from a case with a lid opening so that the case may be used with a collectible removably until permanently bonded. For example, users of a platform may purchase encapsulation portions that form a case and put a collectible int that case and attach the lid and ship the removable lid attached case to a receiving and storage entity and the receiving and storage entity may ultrasonically seal a case. An informational tag may be printed and fixed anywhere on an encapsulated case such as on the interior or exterior of an encapsulated case. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that an encapsulation case portion with one open lid portion and/or two open lid portions may be tapered such that, for example, the diameter of one side may be larger than the diameter of the opposite side. In doing so, for example, an injection molding process may be easier to perform to form an encapsulation case portion. A logo may be provided as extendable from the case or depressed in a case portion. A encapsulation case portion may be fabricated from any material such as, for example, a transparent material and may form, for example a transparent hard-material case (e.g. , hard plastic case) . All or portions of an encapsulation case may be, for example, non-transparent such that, for example, a collectible may be permanently visibly hidden in a case until the case is broken and the collectible (or collectibles) are removed.

[0133] Case 1410 may be provided that may include housing 1411 that has floor 1410 and extension 1413 with lid 1412. Extension 1413, floor 1413, and housing 1411 may be fabricated, for example, as a single piece or separate pieces. An object (e.g. , action figure) may be placed in an opening before lid 1412 is placed to cover the opening and the object may rest against floor 1414 and then lid 1412 may be removably or permanently (e.g. , ultrasonically) fixed (e.g. , welded) to housing 411. Extension 1412 may, for example, lift a collectible off a surface visually. Extension 1413 may be hollow so that only floor 1414 separates an encapsulated collectible from an outside environment. An information label may be placed on an interior or exterior of portion 1413. A transparent ring (e.g. , hollow square) may be placed inside portion 1413 so the exterior of the ring can be fixed to the interior of portion 1413. An informational tag may be provided between the ring and the interior of portion 1413 before the portions are fixed together (e.g. , ultrasonically welded together) . All or a portion of case 1410 may be transparent. Cross section 1404 may be, for example, cross section 1416 that may have list 1418, floor 1417, and extension 1419. An additional floor may be provided at the bottom of portion 1419 to provide, for example, a second encapsulated area.

[0134] Ca se 1420 may be provided that may include encapsulated housing 1422 formed by symmetrical portions 1423. Two symmetrical portions may, for example, reduce shipping costs as the portions may be nested together in an improved manner versions a case with a tube portion (e.g. , more case portions may fit in a shipping box of a particular size) . Encapsulation case portions may be ultrasonically bonded continuously around, for example, contact edges or around portions of, for example, case portion contact edges. In doing so, an encapsulation time may be reduced and, for example, a pressure buildup inside a case may be more easily released without breaking the case.

[0135] FIG. 14 shows case 1430 that may include lid 1431 and housing portion 1432. Top view 1433, side view 1434, and side view 1435 may be associated with case 1430. The bottom of case 1430 may have a diameter smaller than the top of case 1430 such that, for example, cases portions 1432 can be partially nested inside of one another (e.g. , case portion 1432 may fit at least 10 percent, 20 percent, 30 percent, 40 percent, or 50 percent in a duplicate case housing portion) .

[0136] Case 1440 may include side 1430 that may include, for example, one or more machine readable indicia 1444 that may include a unique identifier for a collectible. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that if a case is damaged or destroyed a new case for that collectible may have a different or the same identifier (or multiple identifiers such as the previous identifier and the new identifier) . A collectible, such as collectible 1445, may have a printed indicia on it (e.g. , collectible indicia 1446) that may be, for example, a barcode such as a uniform product code. Case 1443 may be transparent such that a collectible code 1446 may be scanned to locate and pull data from a database on collectible information associated with the collectible and indicia 1444 may be captured to correlate the retrieved data with a unique collectible identifier (e.g. , an identifier for a platform associated with a receiving and storage entity) . Accordingly, an administrator may scan a product code on the packaging of a collectible, retrieve its information from one or more locations (e.g. , remote servers and/or databases) , and scan a platform unique identifier and the collectible information may automatically be stored in a data structure (e.g. , NET) associated with that identifier. Perspective 1441 may show collectible 1441 outside of an encapsulation case with product information indicia 1442 (which may be a label applied to a collectible by a retail store or manufacturer) . Case 1480 may be, for example, case 1410 and may include encapsulation case 1480, collectible 1481, extension portion 1482, and informational tag 1483.

[0137] FIG. 14 may include encapsulated case 1510 that may include front view 1511 and side view 1512. Encapsulation case 1510 may be utilized, for example, to store a comic book (e.g. , a comic book in an sealed semi-rigid holder with a pocket for the comic book and a pocket for an informational tag and the semi-rigid holder may be encapsulated in encapsulated case 1511. Alternatively, for example, a collectible and an information tag may be encapsulated in transparent hard encapsulated case (e.g. , case 1510) in two different sections. Case 1520 may be an encapsulated case and housing 1521 may be formed by permanently affixing any number of housing portions together (e.g. , two, three, or more than three) . Case 1530 may include housing portion 1531. Case 1540 may include housing portion 1541. Case 1550 may include housing 1551 and corss section 1552 may be a cross section of housing 1551. [0138] Shelving with cavities for collectibles for storage may be fabricated, for example, from injection molded polymer (e.g. , plastic) . The shelving may be fabricated by fabricating multiple bricks of cavities (e.g. , two rows of 25 cavities) and these bricks may be fixed together to form a storage unit. For example, a shelving unit may have separate storage cavities on an obverse side and a reverse side. Multiple bricks can be fabricated together to, for example, form a storage unit that is six foot by four foot and includes over 6,000 cavities (e.g. , for trading cards) . A comic book shelving may store, for example, over 500 hard, rigid material encapsulated comic books (e.g. , over 700 hard, rigid material encapsulated comic books) . The same bricks that form a shelving unit may be, for example, used in other forms such as two bricks may form, for example, 4 rows of 25 cavities each (e.g. , for a total of 100 cavities) in a secure traveling briefcase. Molded shelving bricks may provide, for example, a manner to create a number of custom storage options using a cost basis of an injection molded part.

[0139] FIG. 15 shows graphical user interface 1600 that may be accessed via, for example, provided by a server and viewed via a web-browser. Graphical user interface 1600, or any interface, may be provided as a native interface from a native application on a device. Navigational controls 1611 and 1612 may be provided and may be used to navigate between screens of a graphical user interface. Refresh controls 1613 may be provided and may be utilized to refresh a screen (e.g. , refresh a screen with new data) . Address input area 1214 may be utilized to accept an address (e.g. , an internet web address) .

[0140] Virtual button 1616 may be utilized to initiate, for example, a submission process so that, for example, a user may submit one or more collectibles of one or more types to be catalogued, authenticated, quality graded, imaged, stored, and/or listed on one or more buy/sell marketplaces, exchanges (e.g. , trade exchanges) , and/or auctions.

[0141] Virtual button 1617 may be utilized, for example, to initiate a marketplace process where a collectible may be purchased, sold, traded, auctioned, or any other process that includes, for example, a disposition or acquisition of a collectible.

[0142] Virtual button 1618 may be utilized, for example, to initiate a collection process where a user' s collection (e.g. , a user logged into and identified on interface 1600) is displayed and managed by the user.

[0143] Virtual button 1619 may be utilized, for example, to initiate a process where other users may be located and communicated with such as, for example, via private messaging, group messaging, message forums, or any other type of social interaction.

[0144] Virtual button 1620 may be utilized, for example, to initiate a process where a user' s progress towards collecting sets and meeting colleting goals may be managed (e.g. , in comparison to the progress of other users) . For example, leaderboards may be provided based on, for example, the quality and completeness of a group of collectibles (e.g. , a set of collectibles) .

[0145] Virtual button 1621 may be provided to initiate a news process where a variety of news articles may be viewed.

[0146] Virtual button 1691 may be utilized to initiate, for example, a transfer process such as a transfer of a collectible from management by a platform (e.g. , a website of interface 1600) to another platform. Accordingly, for example, the management of a collectible may be moved between different platforms (e.g. , different marketplaces, auction houses, collectible management companies, blockchains, etc. ) . Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that collectible items may be transferred between platforms without the physical item being transferred. Accordingly, for example, a collectible may be purchased on a sourcing platform operated by a first company and then transferred to a marketplace platform operated by a different company and the collectible may be transferred yet again to an auction platform operated by yet another company. The collectible may be a physical collectible and may be stored in the same location (e.g. , for a storage fee) as the collectible is digitally moved to different platforms and the collectible may be stored in a non-fungible token or other data structure and the data may include, for example, the right to the collectible as well as the location of the collectible. Each platform may, for example, obtain information on collectible products from an collectible management system so that all platforms may download the data structures associated with different collectible products so that data may be in the same structure as the data is moved from platform to platform.

[0147] Virtual button 1692 may be provided, for example, to initiate a shopping cart process to enable users to purchase items and services from a website such as, for example, to purchase upgrades for a collectible (e.g. , to purchase a grading service for a collectible that will grade the condition of that collectible) .

[0148] Virtual button 1693 may be provided to provide one or more alerts such as alerts associated with a user' s account. Alerts may include, for example, a trade request, purchase offer, a sales offer, a news posting, a private message, a response to a group message, etc. Person skilled in the art will appreciate that an attribute of virtual button 1693 may be changed if one or more alerts are provided such as the color of button 1693 may change or an graphical image (e.g. , an icon) may be displayed in the proximity of button 1693 (e.g. , over button 1693) .

[0149] Virtual button 1694 may be provided and may initiate a profile process in which a user may manage profile settings and information (e.g. , shipping information, transaction feedback, wallet information, etc . ) .

[0150] Searching process 1626 may be included in which contextual (e.g. , alphanumeric) information may be entered to find a collectible on one or more platforms, a particular platform, or a subset of a platform. A searching procs may include one or more interactive filter attributes such that the filter attributes may be selected to reduce the collectibles to those that include the selected attribute (e.g. , collectible type, collectible genre, ownership type, year, manufacturer, product, insert, team, collectible attributes, seller attributes, grading attributes, and/or any attribute) .

[0151] Previous searches may be provided in previous search area 1627 and may include interactive links of previous searches such that when searches are selected the selected searches are performed.

[0152] Virt ual button 1622 may be included and may include information such as the amount of money remaining in one or more wallets (e.g. , a wallet holding the domestic currency of a country and/or a wallet holding non-country specific cryptocurrency) . [0153] Interface 1600 may show collectible products that meet any selected search terms. Summary information such as button 1623 may be provided that provides the value of items listed for sale and/or trade is provided. Initiating button 1623 may, for example, provide a list of all items for sale and a breakdown of value. For example, button 1623 may show that 252 items are listed at a value of $25,125.

Button 1624 may be provided and may include, for example, the value of non-listed collectible items such as items that are marked as private by a user and not for sale and/or trade (e.g. , not for transaction) . For example, button 1624 may show that eight collectible items are not listed for sale that has a total value of $10,000. Button 1624 may provide a value of items (e.g. , items in a filtered search) and may include, for example, both listed and non-listed collectible items. For example, button 1625 may display 250 items having a value of $35,125.

[0154] Search results, such as a user' s collection, a marketplace (e.g. , a buy/sell marketplace) , or a subset of collectibles may be displayed in groups based on collectible products. For example, a search for 1970 and topps and basketball cards may produce a result set that provides groupings of all the various 1970 topps basketball products such as, for example, all available 1970 topps Jeff Mullins cards in one group and all 1970 connie hawkins cards in another group .

[0155] Imagine 1661 may be a representative image for a group of collectible products. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that an algorithm may autonomously cut-out a picture of a collectible included from a slab to be used as a representative image of the group so that the image of the collectible is maximized in a group view. Information 1651 may be interactive (e.g. , may be engaged by a user to provide additional information) or may be static. Information 1651 may be, for example, an interactive button. Information 1651 may provide a price range for collectibles in the group (e.g. , collectibles that have pricing) . Information 1652 may be, for example, the number of collectibles in a group that are graded and/or slabbed. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that collectibles that are slabbed may carry one or more numerical grades, sets of numerical subgrades, authentications, uncirculated designations, etc. Information 1953 may be included and may include the total number of collectible items in a collectible product group. [0156] A collectible product grouping, such as product grouping 1650, may include a number of interactive actions such as for example interactive action 1661 where a user may activate interactive action 1661 to get another collectible like the collectible in the grouping. Such an action may, for example, provide a list of items not owned by the user that are within that collectible grouping. For example, suppose a user owns 10 1970 Topps Jeff Mullins cards, initiating an interactive action to get another 1970 Topps Jeff Mullins card may, for example, provide a list of all 1970 Topps Jeff Mullins cards that are available to own on the platform. Additional types of interactive options may be included such as for example a list of users that are watching the particular collectible product on a collectible product wishlist and/or a specific item wishlist. An interactive action may be to view additional side (s) of a collectible. For example, a collectible card may have two sides and an action figure in a box may have more than 2 sides (e.g. , 6 sides) . Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that pictures may be combined into one image such that five sides of a box may be displayed in a single image. A user may also utilize an interactive action, for example, to add a collectible product and/or a specific collectible item to their own wishlist such that a user may view their wishlist and see a list of products and/or specific items the user desires to follow. Any type of interactive action 1660 may be utilized such as, for example, sales history, list of registries where the collectible is utilized (e.g. , a 1970 topps jeff mullins may be part of a basketball card registry, topps registry, 1970 cards registry, jeff mullins registry, golden state warriors registry, etc . ) .

[0157] Product grouping identification 1654 may be included and may be a description (e.g. , a title) of a collectible product for the grouping.

[0158] Collectibles may be auto-loaded or manually loaded (e.g. , via virtual button 1628) as a user scrolls through an interface and the option of a manual or automated load may be selected by a user and may be modifiable by a user.

[0159] FIG. 17 shows interface 1700 that may be, for example, an interface for a user to manage the collection of collectibles of the user. Interactive button 1711 may be utilized, for example, for a user to view the user' s collection. Interface 1700 may be initiated, for example, after a user selects a product grouping to manage. Accordingly, interface 1700 may be the collectible items in a product grouping. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that a product grouping may include, for example, encapsulated and non-encapsulated items. Encapsulated items may be, for example, graded or non-graded.

[0160] Coll edible product grouping information may be provided in title 1751. Specific collectible products in the product grouping of title 1751 may be, for example, provided in interface 1700 for management. Virtual button 1752 may be provided and may include the value and/or number of items listed for sale and/or trade. Virtual button 1953 may be provided and may include the value and/or number of items not listed for sale and or trade. Virtual button 1754 may be provided and may include the value and/or number of items in the grouping . [0161] Coll edible item 1770 may be included and may be, for example, an encapsulated item that has a grade. For example, collectible item 1770 may be encapsulated by TAG grading, which may be provided, for example, by the same entity as interface 1700 or a different entity. Collectible items may not be encapsulated and, for example, item 1772 may be an item that is not encapsulated and may include a picture of the nonencapsulated item. Item 1771 may be, for example, from the same collectible product as item 1770 and item 1772, but may be an encapsulated item that is not yet graded .

[0162] Interactive button 1781 may include, for example, the selling price a user desires for an item and may be changeable by the user. Interactive button 1786 may be utilized so a user may activate button 1786 and place the item for sale. Alternatively, interactive button 1782 may be provided and a user may activate interactive button 1782 for the item to not be placed on sale. Virtual button 1786 or 1782 may become highlighted, for example, when selected.

Alternatively, for example, a single button may be provided and a user may toggle between an item being for sale or not for sale by toggling the single button. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that a collectible item may not be locked and may not be for sale so that the collectible item can still be viewed on a transactional exchange (e.g. , and receive offers to purchase) or the item may be locked and not be listed on a transactional exchange.

[0163] Upgrade button 1784 may be provided such that a user may, for example, upgrade a collectible. For example, a collectible may be upgraded by receiving, for example, an updated or a new grade. For example, an autonomous grading process may be provided and whenever the autonomous grading process is improved, a collectible may be eligible to be upgraded with that new grading process (e.g. , grading algorithm) . Accordingly, for example, a grading process may be dynamic and may increase as technology (e.g. , algorithms) improve. For example, virtual button 1784 may initiate interactive interface 1789 where a new version (e.g. , version 3) of an auto-grade algorithm is available for purchase. Person skilled in the art will appreciate that a user may purchase a subscription or may qualify for free autogrades for a collectible item (e.g. , if a user previously purchased a grade for a collectible item) , qualify for free autogrades for all collectible items (e.g. , based on an unlimited grading subscription) , or qualify for a particular number of grades for collectible items (e.g. , based on a limited grading subscription for a particular number of no additional cost graded items per subscription or period of time) .

[0164] Virtual button 1785 may, for example, enable a user to place an item at auction. Such an auction may be performed with the same entity as the entity that provides the platform of interface 1700 or a third party auction platform.

[0165] Item 1771 may be encapsulated and ungraded and may carry descriptor 1799. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that descriptor 1799 may be interactive such that selecting descriptor 1799 may initiate a screen with additional information on the collectible item. Additional action buttons, such a virtual buttons 1787 and 1788, may be provided in a horizontal configuration or a vertical configuration or another configuration. Virtual button 1787 may be utilized to initiate a grading process in which a user may be provided with different grading options such as multiple grading options from the same entity that provides the platform of interface 1700 and/or multiple grading options from third party entities. Multiple grading options may include, for example, human grading options, machine learning grading options, as well as, for example, grading speeds (e.g. , a 1-day grade return may have a higher price than a 10-day grade return) . Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that a third party grading company may be sent data (e.g. , multispectrum images) of a collectible and not the physical collectible itself such that the physical collectible does not need to be moved in order to have the physical collectible graded. Grades may be attached digitally to a digital data structure associated with a collectible item (e.g. , a token such as a non-fungible token such as a relational-database non-fungible token or a blockchain (e.g. , public, private, and/or hybrid public and private blockchain) . Collectibles may be retrieved physically and slabbed and/or identification tags including the grade (s) added or modified. For example, a hologram may be added to the outside of a encapsulation case with the new grade and the collectible imaged and stored with the new grade.

[0166] Selecting to provide a collectible to auction may initiate interface 1790 which may provide a list of auction houses in which a request may be made to the auction house to determine if the auction house desires to list the collectible item. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that some auction entities, such as online auction platforms, may automatically permit the listing of a qualifying item. Accordingly, items may be determined to qualify for an auction and, if so, the user may be permitted to list an item at an auction without having to request a decision by an auction house. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that various auction houses may specialize in various items and the rates and placement (e.g. , in a premium monthly auction or a weekly auction of an auction house) may be negotiated terms for collectibles such as high value collectibles. Accordingly, for example, interface 1792 may be provided to state that an auction house was selected, the date and/or time that the request was performed, and an expected response time (e.g. , based on recent response times or based on response times provided by the auction entity) . Multiple auction house requests from various auction houses may be made for a single collectible item.

[0167] Interface 1793 may be provided and may provide an offer, if any, by the auction house. Such an offer may include, for example, costs (e.g. , a fixed handling cost) , whether the item needs to be shipped to the auction house physically or whether the item may be kept in its storage location and pre-captured images be utilized to perform the auction, any sellers premium (which may be a negative number such as -5% to represent the seller will obtain a bonus of 5% such as 5% of the buyer' s premium such that a 20% buyers premium may have 5% go to the seller and 15% go to the auction house, the expected auction placement (e.g. , weekly auction, monthly auction, premium auction, nonpremium auction) , and any other terms and conditions. A user may then agree to the terms or may decline or counter the terms. In this manner, a consumer may select the auction house with the best terms, placement, and quality for a particular item and may auction the item without having the item ever leave its physical, stored location. The winning bidder at the auction may then, for example, have the item deposited in the account associated with the user without ever having to physically move the stored collectible. The platform providing interface 1700 may, for example, take a fee for providing the accessibility to the auction (e.g. , a fee that is at least 1 percent, at least 2 percent, at least 3 percent, etc. , of the final auction sales price) .

[0168] Item 1770 may have action options associated with it such as, for example, a three-dimensional view 1761 in which a user may navigate through 360 degree picture coverage of an item across multiple angles in order to better explore a collectible item. An item may be transferred in step 1762 such as, for example, shipped to an address determined by the consumer. Non- fungible token, or other data, details may be provided in action option 1763 such as, for example, discovering the original (e.g. , the original submitter) of the collectible to the platform. In doing so, for example, the authenticity of an item may be increased by publicly showing the entities that originally submitted the collectible to the platform. The origin information may include origin information at third party platforms. For example, a third-party grading company may provide an origin of a collectible and it may be registered as a third party provided origin in addition to the entity that originated the collectible on the platform providing interface 1700 (e.g. , the third-party grading company) .

[0169] Action option 1763 may be provided and may provide the ability for a user to lock an item so it cannot be transacted (e.g. , sold and/or traded) . Such a lock may be associated with a secondary password such as, for example, a one-time password. A one-time password may be sent, for example, to a user' s email account and/or phone number stored and associated to the user and the one-time password may be required to unlock an item. Locking an item may, for example, remove the item from being visible in an exchange (e.g. , a catalogue of all non-locked items) .

[0170] Action item 1765 may provide images for a collectible such as visible spectrum and/or non-visible spectrum images and such images may be provided in different resolutions. For example, one or more images having at least 80 or 100 megapixels of a collectible may be provided to a user that owns a collectible (and/or any user that can view the collectible) at no cost, for a cost, or for no cost with a particular subscription, and/or for a particular number of collectibles for a cost (e.g. , 100 collectibles for a cost) . Images may be zoomed using, for example, action option 1766.

[0171] FIG. 18 shows interface 1800 that may be, for example, an interface of an exchange such as a buy/sell marketplace, a buy/sell/trade marketplace, or any other type of exchange (e.g. , an auction exchange) . Such an interface may be provided, for example, when a user selects a get more virtual button 1810 to get more collectibles to add to the user' s collection. Product groupings may be provided such, as for example, product grouping 1830 that may include the total number of collectible items in the grouping (e.g. , virtual button 1872) and the total number of collectibles of that grouping owned by the user (e.g. , virtual button 1871) . The name of the collectible product may be provided, for example, in interactive descriptor 1873 and selecting interactive descriptor 1873 may provide an interface that lists each collectible item in the collectible item group. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that collectibles may not only be filtered, but also sorted. For example, collectible items and/or products may be sorted by the highest offered price, the lowest offered price, the highest last sale, or any other attribute of one or more collectible products or specific collectible items. Information 1870 may be provided, which may be interactive data, to provide a price range for the specific collectible items that are included in the collectible product group. A representative image may be provided to represent the group in group 1830 and may be, for example, a particular picture (e.g. , a obverse side picture) of a collectible and may be a cut-out, performed by an algorithm, of an item that is in an case so that the entire perspective of the case is not viewable in order to, for example, increase the size of the collectible when viewed on interface 1800. [0172] Action button 1846 may be provided in which a product group may be added to a wish-list. An option to view one or more wish-lists may be provided on any interface. A user may have, for example, multiple wish-lists such as a wish-list associated with collectible groups, a wish-list associated with specific collectible items, a wish-list that includes both groups and specific items, and/or custom wish lists configured by the user. Selecting option 1846 may, for example, pop up a list of wish-lists to place an item on as well as add a new wish-list and to place the item on that wish-list.

[0173] Interactive item 1845 may be provided, for example, to view different perspectives of the representative image. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that collectibles may have variations that differentiate in very subtle distinctions and additional images for a product grouping may permit users to view those subtle distinctions without having to view the specific items. An image for a grouping may be, for example, the images associated with the original/f irst collectible in the grouping, the highest graded collectible in the grouping, the most valuable collectible item in the grouping, a random collectible item (e.g. , from a subset of items in the collectible grouping) , or any other collectible grouping image selection process.

[0174] Act ion option 1845 may, for example, display a pricing trend for one or more categories of collectibles in the group (e.g. , a different sales trend for ungraded collectibles, graded collectibles, collectibles graded by a particular grading entity, graded collectibles having a particular grade) , etc. [0175] Addit ional action option 1844 may be provided and may be, for example, an action item associated with additional analytics such as, for example, how many collectibles in the collectible group are graded and not-graded. Accordingly, for example, a user may search interface 1800 for collectibles that are not graded in order to review and grade and sell after graded .

[0176] Action option 1841 may be provided and may be any option for a collectible. For example, option 1841 may provide a user with the ability to set a bounty for a collectible item. A user may browse for a collectible item such as a collectible where only a single collectible was manufactured and that is a one of one collectible. The user may filter to see all collectibles of a type even those that are not owned by any users and may be provided with a generic image for collectibles that have not yet been imaged and/or owned by a user of the platform. The user may then provide a bounty for that collectible such that when the collectible is loaded, the owner can complete a transaction with that bounty. A bounty may include, for example, dedicating user funds toward the bounty so that the bounty may automatically occur when a seller desires to utilize the bounty. A bounty may be based on a collectible having a particular grade or a particular collectible group (e.g. , a collectible group associated with a one of one collectible) .

[0177] Addit ional action options may be included such as additional information associated with a product (e.g. , print runs, manufacturing code, uniform product code (UPC) , or any other information regarding the collectible product) .

[0178] Virtual buttons 1821, 1822, and 1823 may provide values associated with the retrieved product groupings (e.g. , based on a search and/or filter) such as, for example, the value of the non-graded products listed, the value of the graded products listed, and the total value of the listed products, respectively. One or more of buttons 1821, 1822, and 1832 may be configurable by a user so that the user may observe customized data when exploring a platform providing interface 1800.

[0179] FIG. 19 may include interface 1900 which may be a listing of specific collectible items for a collectible group that was accessed through, for example, virtual button 1910. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that a filter and/or search for collectible items may include origin such that, for example, collectible items may be searched from specific users (e.g. , celebrities) as collectibles having specific origins may have increased, or decreased, value. Collectible items and/or collectible products may be viewed in different orders based, upon, for example, preferences accessed via virtual button 1920 which may, for example, initiate a drop down list of options such as, for example, to list collectible items (and/or collectible products) from low to high price, high to low price, most active, most watched, recently added, highest grade, by grading company, by encapsulation type (e.g. , rigid encapsulation case, semi-rigid encapsulation case, by owner, by offers sent, by offers received, and/or any other attribute for a collectible item and/or collectible product. List 1983 may, for example, also be configured by a user or autonomously configured to a user such that more frequently used view types are provided at the top of the list. Buttons 1921-1932 may be utilized to display the value of, and/or provide addition information on, for example, collectibles listed that are graded, not-graded, or all collectibles listed. [0180] Item 1951 may be included and may be an encapsulated, graded item. Item 1952 may be included and may be an encapsulated, ungraded item. Item 1953 may be included and may be a raw non-encapsulated item. Item 1951 may include, for example, interactive descriptor 945 that may include the name and rating of the owner of collectible 1951. Interactive descriptor 1944 ma include the grade and grading company of item 1951. Descriptor 1961 may include, for example, the type of encapsulation case (e.g. , soft slab) and the name of the slabbing company) of item 1952. Descriptor 1962 may include the name of the owner of item 1952. Descriptor 1963 may include the encapsulation status of collectible 1953 (e.g. , raw and not permanently encapsulated) and the name of the owner of collectible 1953.

[0181] Item 1951 may have a sales price set by the owner and the item may be purchased using button 1980. Alternatively, for example, the owner of item 1951 may be messaged privately by the user or a purchase offer may be made to the owner. Action button 1942 may be utilized in a variety of situations such as, for example, to bid on an item at auction (e.g. , for items with the current auction bid provided in button 1941) or, for example, to make an offer or any other action. Item 1952 may include button 1981 that may include an offer (e.g. , $12) to a specific user or users from the sale price (e.g. , $15) and a user may purchase, respond to a sales offer, and/or message the owner of item 1952 in interface 1981.

[0182] Item 1951 may include one or more action options such as action option 1931, in which a collectible may be turned at various angles under a common lighting condition (e.g. , rotated 360 degrees so that reflections can be seen in reflective collectibles) as well as viewed at multiple angles while being rotated, item wish-list 1931 may be utilized to add an item to an item wish-list (or any wish-list) , action option 1932 to see the original and non-fungible token information for a collectible, action item 1933, which may be a lock and unlock action item where a user may toggle between locking and unlocking an item, action item 1934 which may be utilized to provide images. Person skilled in the art will appreciate that high definitions images (e.g. , 100 megapixel or higher) may be provided in order to provide a fingerprint for a collectible at resolutions where two collectible items of the same collectible product may be unique identified based on the resolution of the image (e.g. , at a resolution where print dot variations may be seen on the print of a comic, card, or figurine packaging) . Action item 1935 may be included, for example, to provide a zoomed in image .

[0183] FIG. 20 shows interface 2000, which may be an interface for showing details of a collectible item. For example, interface 2000 may be an interface that originates from a user selecting a collectible item from interface 1900 of FIG. 19. A collectible item may be provided in descriptor 2021 and may include a unique identification number such as a unique identification number provided by, for example, a platform that provides interface 2000. Details about a collectible may be accessed through multiple interfaces such as a collection interface (e.g. , interface 2000) , an exchange interface, social interface, or any interface. Interactive button 2022 may provide details on the past, present, or future expected value of a collectible. For example, interactive button 2022 may provide the lowest price transaction and the date of the transaction for the specific collectible. Interactive button 2023 may provide, for example, the highest price achieved and the date of the transaction. The last price achieved and the date of the transaction may be provided, for example, with interactive button 2024. Interactive buttons may be selected, for example, to bring up a list of all transactions for the collectible. For example, interactive button 2022 may generate a list of transactions (e.g. , and one or more graphical charts for the transactional data) from lowest to highest while interactive button 2023 provides the data from highest price to lowest price while interactive button 2024 provides a list from most recent to oldest.

[0184] Item 2025 may be provided and may include descriptor information 2021 and may have any number of action items (e.g. , the same action options as a collectible product grouping or different action options as a collectible product grouping) .

[0185] Information 2031 may be provided and may include information about the product grouping as well as the specific item. For example, information 2031 may include detailed information about the collectible product grouping (e.g. , date of manufacture, rarity, manufacturer, collectible artist, etc. ) as well as information associated with the specific collectible item (e.g. , date of origin on the platform, grade and grade history, authentication and authentication history, sub-grades, date of grades and authentication, type of encapsulation case, storage location such as storage country, state, city, or any other information. History information may be provided and may include history about the provenance of a specific collectible, the transaction history of a specific collectible, the grading and authentication history of a specific collectible, as well as any other information.

[0186] Grading and authentication information 2032 may be provided and may include, for example, grading information such as grading report information (e.g. , information associated with grading report 3600 of FIG. 36) , sub-grade information, and any other grading information associated with a collectible item.

[0187] Non-fungible token information 2033 may be provided and may include non-fungible token data for a specific collectible such as, for example, ownership changes, moving the non-fungible token to third party platforms (e.g. , auction houses) , importing the non- fungible token from third-party platforms (e.g. , authorized sealed pack breakers, or any other information) .

[0188] Checklist information 2034 may include, for example, any checklist that may include the specific collectible item (e.g. , a master checklist of all collectibles of a particular manufacturer, all collectibles from a product set, all collectibles from a product year, all collectibles from a player, or any other type of checklist such as a checklist created by the user logged into the platform or third-party created checklists) . If a user has an item, a checklist may show any item on the checklist the user owns in addition to how many the user owns as well as condition information (e.g. , grade information) . [0189] Registry information 2035 may be included and may include any registry checklist (e.g. , competitive leaderboard) that is associated with the collectible. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that a registry may be ranked by completeness as well as condition (e.g. , grade) and different registries may be provided for collectibles graded and/or authenticated by different grading and/or authentication companies. [0190] Pe rsons skilled in the art will appreciate that a complete my checklist option may be provided in which a user may be presented with the cost to complete the user' s checklist and/or complete the checklist in a variety of conditions (e.g. , a variety of grades) . A consumer may complete the purchase to purchase all of the collectibles in the bundle, which may be collectibles from one or more users.

[0191] FIG. 21 includes interface 2100, which may include registry 2100 that may include virtual button 2111 that provides a total number of collectible items a user has on the registry and/or a total number of collectible item entries a user has on the registry. Virtual button 2112 may include the total number of collectible product sets that the user has collectibles (e.g. , at least one collectible) in. Virtual button 2113 may include the total number of completed collectible sets (e.g. , 1970 topps basketball may have a collectible product set on a registry) . A user may view the registry from different perspectives such as a registry where all of a user' s collectibles are utilized (e.g. , virtual button 2121) , a registry where TAG authenticated and/or graded collectibles are utilized (e.g. , virtual button 2122) , a registry where ABC authenticated and/or graded collectibles are - Ill - utilized (e.g. , virtual button 2123) , a registry where XYC collectibles are provided, a registry where AAA collectible are provided, or any other type of attribute to filter the collectibles utilized in a registry .

[0192] Information 2131 may include sets and/or insert sets where the user has the highest grade and/or highest completion percentage. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that a total grade for a set may be a weighted grade that weights cards differently based on, for example, population rarity in a particular grade and a partially and fully completed set may have a weighted average based on the specific collectible items the user has as well as the grade for that collectible item.

[0193] Information 2132 may be utilized, for example, to see a user' s completed master sets. A master set may include cards from one or more sets and/or subsets. For example, a registry set may be a base set for a product set and a master set may include all insert sets and the base set for a product set. Information, such as information 2132, may include the total number of entries (e.g. , registries) included in the information.

[0194] Information 2133 may include the total number of completed insert sets, information 2137 may include the sets in process, information 2134 may include the insert sets in process, information 2135 may include registry achievements earned, and information 2136 may include population reports for collectibles. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that a registry set may include all of the collectibles in a checklist for the set marked with the collectibles a user has (e.g. , the collectible with the highest gradeO, and an indication if a collectible with a higher grade is available for purchase for any collectible in the checklist as well as a bundled purchase option enabling a consumer to purchase all available collectibles that would increase the user' s ranking in a user ranked registry as well as the projected improvement in ranking. Person skilled in the art will appreciate that population reports may show the available information for a collectible item, product grouping, product set, etc. In doing so, a consumer may be able to receive information regarding how many of a collectible are known to exist as well as in a particular grade and/or from a particular grading entity (e.g. , from the perspective of platform 2100 or from the perspective of multiple platforms including platform of interface 2100) .

[0195] FIG. 22 includes interface 2200 which may be, for example, a submission interface. A user may initiate a new submission via a virtual button (e.g. , virtual button 2211) , view submission history via a virtual button (e.g. , button 2212) , and view submission rules such as shipping procedures and pricing via a virtual button (e.g. , virtual button 2213) .

[0196] A new submission form may include user entered data and may, for example, follow a dynamic entry form that provides the next question for a customer to answer after a previous question has been answered. Submission forms may utilize, for example, drop down lists of pre-determined data based on checklist data to properly identify a submitted collectible. For example, a user may select a collectible type using option 2221, a collectible manufacturer (e.g. , for the previously selected collectible type) via option 2222, a manufacturer year via button 2223, a product set via 2224, an insert via option 2225 (which may be, for example, a base set) , a collectible number and/or player via option 2226, a variation via option 2227. A user may be provided with a sample picture of a collectible item from the selected collectible grouping via picture 2231 and a consumer may confirm their collectible for submission is of the same collectible grouping via option 2241 or may state the shown collectible is not the collectible for submission and to add an unknown collectible flag to the collectible via option 2242. A user may continue adding new collectibles via new initial multistage selection and/or entry boxes/lists 2251 and may confirm submission is complete via option 2261.

[0197] FIG. 23 may include interface 2300 which may include a wallet funds available for use via button 2220. An available amount may be provided via button

2311, add funds process may be initiated via button

2312, and a withdrawal funds process may be utilized via button 2313. A users payment cards may be added, removed, modified, managed via option 2321, bank accounts may be added, removed, modified, managed via button 2322, shipment addresses may be managed in an address book via button 2323, and any additional information may be provided in option 2324 (e.g. , lines of credit such as lines of credit backed by transaction-locked and stored collectibles) .

[0198] FIG. 24 may include interface 2410, which may be included in a get more collectible interface, and may include a list of get more options such as links to go to a buy, sell, trade, and/or auction exchange, search an ID for the platform (e.g. , a TAG ID) , buy and/or make an offer for an item, outstanding transactions (e.g. , offers given, offers received) , rate transactions, locked items, friend list, list an item to sell, active listings of items for sale, all transaction listings.

[0199] Interface 2420 may be included and may be included as part of, for example, a collection interface for a user and may include links to a view my collection, upgrade my collectibles, grade my collectibles, auction my collectibles, wish-list, checklists, registry, locked items, and active listings .

[0200] Interface 2430 may be included such as for example as part of a social connection interface, and may include a link to connect to a user, join a break, send/receive personal and/or group messages, marketplace forums, hobby forums, or any other type of forums (e.g. , registry forums) , a friend list, a blocked friend list, help information, and news.

[0201] FIG. 25 includes interface 2500 which may be included, for example, as part of a registry interface and may include a link to all registries, particular registries (e.g. , comic, trading card, figurine) , registry leaderboards, a user' s registry sets, a user' s completed registry sets, a sell my registry set option (e.g. , to sell a set as individual collectible items or as a collectible set in and upon itself) , as well as any other links to any other functionality.

[0202] Interface 2520 may be included, for example, as part of a news interface and may include, for example, links to all news on a platform, news associated with a particular subject (e.g. , comic news, figurine news, trading card news, grading news, registry news, etc. ) , or any other link to any other functionality.

[0203] Interface 2530 may be included and may be included as part of a transfer interface and may include links to transfer cart processes. Interface 2540 may be included and may be included as part of a purchasing and/or selling cart process and may include links to transaction processes.

[0204] FIG. 26 may include interface 2610 that may be included as part of, for example, an alert and notification interface that may include links, for example, to alerts and notifications for a user, transaction updates (e.g. , new offers, partner transaction updates, auction status updates, etc. ) , item updates (e.g. , grades processed, authenticity verifications, signature authentications) , messages, news, and any other functionality.

[0205] Interface 2620 may be included and may be included, for example, in a profile interface and may include links to go to a user' s profile, account (e.g. , dashboard, account details, settings, etc. ) , wallet (e.g. , balance, saved shipping, saved payments, saved bank accounts) , history (e.g. , order history, item upgrade history, transfer history, etc. ) , notifications (e.g. , unread messages, received offers, third party process status, sell an item, buy an upgrade) , help (e.g. , faqs, contact us) , a user' s collection, a buy, sell, and/or trade exchange, social connection options, registry, and any other functionality.

[0206] Interface 2630 may be included and may include an interface in a store, transfer card, and/or shopping cart interface and may include, for example, links to shopping, buying an upgrade, buying supplies, submitting collectibles, joining a break (e.g. , joining a break of a sealed pack of collectibles) , and any other functionality.

[0207] FIG. 27 may include interface 2710 which may be an interface where any user may identify a platform collectible item by entering in the identification number for the collectible. A user may utilize a cameria via option 2712 to scan a barcode and/or QR code and/or may initiated a search for inputted information via option 2713. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that both physical and/or digital collectible items may include an identification number. [0208] Interface 2772 may include the results of a search and may inform a user whether or not a collectible has been located in search bar 2724. The title of the collectible item may be provided in descriptor 2723 as well as one or more pictures (e.g. , picture 2721 and 2722) as well as any other information (e.g. , any other information associated with a collectible item provided herein such as the owner and purchase price as well as the ability for a nonidentified user to purchase and ship the item to a provided address) .

[0209] The background of a search results page may be, for example, a video of the collectible (e.g. , a collectible rotating) as well as a portion of an image of a collectible, a collectible encapsulation case, and/or a collectible tag. For example, different watermarks may be utilized for different tags and the watermark for the tag of the collectible may be provided as the background for that collectible. [0210] Tag 2730 may also be provided with a collectible in an encapsulation case. Tag 2730 may printed, for example, and folded in half so that the tag includes a obverse side and reverse side when placed in an encapsulated case with a collectible. The obverse side may include, for example, the name of a collectible as well as additional facts associated with the collectible (e.g. , 4 facts associated with the collectible) as well as a QR code to initiate a website page that includes information on the collectible as well as any grade or authentication designator (e.g. , uncirculated and received direct from manufacturer) . The front of a tag may also include a human readable identification number which may be entered into a website to identify the collectible (e.g. , interface 2710) and an icon may be provided next to the identification number to identify if an RFID chip and antenna is provided (e.g. , provided between the two sides of the tag) . An RFID may be provided with one or more memory sectors that may be accessed via one or more methods (e.g. , a first memory sector accessed via a first method and a second memory sector accessed via a second method) . One memory sector may be able to be accessed by a user (e.g. , a user that identifies the use on a native application on a mobile device) and another memory sector may only be able to be accessed by the manufacturer of the encapsulation case. The reverse side of a tag, like the obverse side of the tag, may include, for example, any information associated with a collectible item and may include additional information such as a writer, artist, cover artist, story information, character appearances, release date, encapsulation date, etc. as well as a QR code .

[0211] A watermark may be provided on one or more sides of a tag and the watermark may be provided on a printing plate that is longer than a tag so that each tag may be provided with a different part of the larger watermark. In doing so, the difficulty to counterfeit a tag may be increased. Printing plates for watermarks may be changed frequently such that, for example, every particular number of collectibles (e.g. , at least 25,000, at least 50,000, at least 100,000 or no more than 250,000) collectibles may utilize a particular watermark. Different collectibles may utilize different size tags and each collectible type may utilize the same tag material, but may be utilized at different lengths and, accordingly, may include different lengths of a watermark. For example, a watermark may be 12 inches in length, a comic book tag may be less than 6 inches in length, and a trading card tag may be less than 3 inches in length.

[0212] FIG. 28 may include a figurine encapsulation case (e.g. , a Funko Pop! Encapsulation case) , which may include a housing portion and a base portion that may be ultrasonically permanently sealed together such that the encapsulation case is destroyed if the figurine is desired to be removed from the case.

[0213] Housing 2801 may be ultrasonically sealed to base 2803 and may be ultrasonically sealed about lip 2804, or another area of base 2803, and may include one or more pockets 2802 (e.g. , pockets for tags, RFID chips and antennas, and/or tags and RFID chips and antennas, or any other item) . Housing 2811 may include inserted base 2812 and ultrasonically sealed about lip 2813. Housing 2821 may include stacking rim to stack multiple cases and may include base 2823 inserted into housing aperture 2822. Housing 2831 may receive base 2832. Housing may include stacking ledge 2834. Side 2841 (e.g. , top side) and side 2842 (e.g. , button side) may be provided from, for example, an encapsulated case .

[0214] FIG. 29 includes a top and bottom slab portion of a 35 point trading card slab and may include perspectives 2910-2921.

[0215] FIG. 30 includes a top and bottom slab portion of a 55 point trading card slab and may include perspectives 3001-3009.

[0216] FIG. 31 may include, for example, a soft, semi-rigid encapsulation case for a comic book as encapsulation case 3100. Encapsulation case 3100 may be fabricated (e.g. , thermoformed) from any material (e.g. , an optically transparent PET-G) and may be heat- sealed around the perimeter with a comic book in cavity 3101 and tag (e.g. , a folded tag) in cavity 3102 of housing 3102. Encapsulation case 3100 may be fabricated as a single part with a perforation about a fold line or may be fabricated as two separate parts (a first part on one side of the fold line and a second part on a second side of the fold line) . Encapsulation case 3120 may be, for example, a perspective of encapsulation case 3120. The corners about a cavity for a comic book may be bubbled/extended so the corners of an item stored in the cavity does not touch an edge. A primary storage cavity for a collectible item may store any collectible item that may fit in the cavity such as, for example, a magazine, book, pamphlet, card, poster, comic book, etc. ) . Perspective 3110 may be a side view perspective of encapsulation case 3100. An RFID chip and RFID antenna may be stored, for example, in a tag cavity. Alternatively, for example, a RFID chip and TAG may be adhered (e.g. , via a label that the RFID chip and antenna are embedded in) to the outside of the semi-rigid slab and the semi-rigid slab may be permanently encased, for example, in a rigid encapsulation case, such as rigid encapsulation case 3200 of FIG. 32.

[0217] FIG. 32 may include, for example, encapsulation case 3200 that may be utilized, for example, to store a semi-rigid encapsulation case such as encapsulation case 3100 of FIG. 31. Encapsulation case portion 3202 may be a universal portion that is formed (e.g. , injection molded) from a material (e.g. , a transparent high impact polystyrene) such that two of the universal encapsulation portions may be ultrasonically sealed together to form a permanent encapsulation case. In providing a universal encapsulation portion, only a single mold of a single portion is needed to create any number of universal portions that can be utilized, in pairs, to provide an encapsulation case. Accordingly, a comic book may be heat sealed in a semi-rigid encapsulation case and not be graded and a consumer may purchase an upgrade that includes an RFID chip and antenna, a grade, and a rigid slab such as rigid slab 3200) . An RFID chip and antenna may be affixed to the outside of the semi-rigid case (e.g. , case 3100) and a hologram or label with the grade may be affixed to the outside of the case (e.g. , over the chip and antenna) and then the semi-rigid case may be ultrasonically sealed in a rigid encapsulation case. Perspectives 3203-3205 may be perspectives of a universal case portion (e.g. , for a rigid case that encapsulates, for example, a cased or uncases item such as a semi-rigid cased comic book) .

[0218] FIG. 33 may include, for example, an interface that is returned upon the completion of a search for an encapsulated collectible such as an encapsulated figurine that may have six sides. Interface 3300 may include any type of information associated with a collectible such as, for example, information 3301.

[0219] FIG. 34 may include, for example, an interface that is returned upon the completion of a search for an encapsulated collectible such as an encapsulated comic book that may have two sides . Interface 3r00 may include any type of information associated with a collectible such as, for example, information 3401.

[0220] FIG. 34 may include, for example, an interface that is returned upon the completion of a search for an encapsulated collectible such as an encapsulated trading card that may have two sides. Interface 3500 may include any type of information associated with a collectible such as, for example, information 3501.

[0221] FIG. 36 may be, for example, automated grading report card 3610 that may include an image of the tag for a collectible item, images of all four corners (e.g. , for a trading card or comic book) of the front and back of the collectible, and a close-up fingerprint of a particular area of the front and back of the collectible and the coordinates such that an owner can verify the identity of the collectible item from different collectible items of the same collectible product group by seeing various print variations (e.g. , print droplet variations) , as well as grading information (e.g. , human, automated, and/or semi-automated grading information) . Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that a user may update (at no cost, or at a cost, or at no cost with a subscription) grading information at any time with any newly available autonomous grading system (e.g. , machine learning based grading system) . Fingerprint resolution may be, for example, a specific area of a image (e.g. , a portion of an at least a 4, 000 x 4,000 image or a portion of an at least 4,500 x 4,500 DPI image or a portion of an at least 5,000 x 5,000 DPI) . One or more fingerprints may be published for one or more sides so a consumer can identify a collectible that has been graded even when, for example, the collectible has been removed from an encapsulation case. Corne images may be, for example, of the same resolution as a fingerprint image (e.g. , a portion of an at least a 4,000 x 4, 000 image or a portion of an at least 4,500 x 4,500 DPI image or a portion of an at least 5,000 x 5,000 DPI) . Accordingly, for example, a user may be provided with close-up images of the corners of a collectible. For a figurine, the corners of all sides of a figurine box may be provided at, for example, an enhanced resolution.

[0222] FIG. 37 may include trading card tag 3710, which may include the year of the product, name of the product, name of the subject of the collectible, set number of the collectible, sub-set/insert name of the collectible, versions of the product where the collectible could be acquired (e.g. , hobby boxes, retail boxes, blaster boxes, etc. ) , odds of pulling the collectible from various versions of the product, an uncirculated mark if the collectible was provided directly from the collectible manufacturer and/or distributor, a grade (e.g. , numerical grade with a descriptor for that grade) , a QR code for the token associated with the collectible, printed indicia for the token associated with the printed indicia, a barcode for the token associated with the printed indicia, a security watermark, marketing/branding indicia, etc.

[0223] FIG. 37 may include figurine tag 3720, may include the year of the product, name of the product, name of the subject of the collectible, set number of the collectible, sub-set/insert name of the collectible, variations of the product (e.g. , an exclusive retail version of the product) , odds of pulling the collectible from various versions of the product (e.g. , sealed cases of figurines) , an uncirculated mark if the collectible was provided directly from the collectible manufacturer and/or distributor, a grade (e.g. , numerical grade with a descriptor for that grade) , a QR code for the token associated with the collectible, printed indicia for the token associated with the printed indicia, a barcode for the token associated with the printed indicia, a security watermark, marketing/branding indicia, etc.

[0224] FIG. 37 may include sealed trading card box tag 3730 that may be encapsulated in semi-rigid and/or rigid cases with associated collectible items. Tag 3730 may include how the box (or case) was obtained (e.g. , a case direct from the distributor, a random box from a random case, etc. ) . Tag 3730 may include the year of the product, name of the product, source of the product, construction of the product (e.g. , 1 pack in a box, 6 trading cards in a pack) , etc. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that a website may be provided where permanently encased boxes are purchased, opened and the collectibles are encapsulated, imaged, graded, vaulted, and listed by the owner of the collectibles on a secondary marketplace on the website. [0225] Person skilled in the art will appreciate that the watermarks may be different sizes of the same watermark or may be, for example, different portions of a larger watermark. The height of a tag may be the same across multiple collectibles and the length may vary among different collectibles such that the same tag height and tag printer may be utilized regardless of collectible item and different tag lengths would be varied from collectible type to collectible type.

[0226] Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that a registry for a set, or another grouping of collectibles (e.g. , a player, a team, etc. ) may show a user the number of collectibles that user has in the registry for a particular grouping. Collectible groupings may be scored based at least in part, for example, on the grades of the collectibles. Users may be ranked against one another based on the scores they have for a particular collectible grouping. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that the registry may provide links to a secondary marketplace for collectibles that the user does not have for that grouping or collectibles that have, for example, a higher grade. Accordingly, a user may visit a registry for a grouping and purchase one or more collectibles to improve their ranking. A virtual button may be provide to initiate a process for a user to purchase the combination of collectibles available on a secondary marketplace that would increase the user' s score by the largest amount. Notifications may be provided such that when a collectible is made available that increases a user' s score in a grouping, the user is notified (e.g. , via email and/or text message and/or another form of communication) .

[0227] Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that users may submit comics, or other collectibles, for permanent slabbing in semi-rigid cases, review images of the slabbed collectibles, and then decide which ones to slab in a rigid slab. Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that grading may be provided for both semi-rigid and rigid encapsulation cases. In doing so, consumers may grade collectibles in semirigid slabs and then decide which graded semi-rigid encased collectibles to encase in rigid collectibles. In doing so, for example, a user may spend less money on encasing a collectible in a semi-rigid case and grading it then encasing a collectible in a rigid case and grading it. As such, a user may submit a number of collectibles (e.g. , 100 or more) and may encapsulate each in a semi-rigid holder and grade and then take a subset of the graded collectibles (e.g. , those that grade above a threshold) and slab those collectibles in rigid encapsulation cases. In doing so, a user may reduce the cost of determining the grade of collectibles and providing those collectibles in rigid encapsulation cases. Semi-rigid cases may also be provided, for example, with toys such as figurines. A semi-rigid case may be permanently encapsulated in a rigid case or a permanently encapsulated semi-rigid case may be permanently broken and the collectible removed and be permanently encapsulated in a rigid encapsulation case.

[0228] Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that the present invention is not limited to only the embodiments described, and that features described in one embodiment may be used in a different embodiment. The present invention more generally involves security of both physical and digital transactions. Persons skilled in the art will also appreciate that the apparatus of the present invention may be implemented in other ways than those described herein. All such modifications are within the scope of the present invention, which is limited only by the claims that follow.

Claims

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising: a physical security vault; a plurality of physical collectible items, wherein each physical collectible item is permanently encapsulated in plastic casings, wherein said plurality of physical collectible items is physically stored in said physical security vault, a first one of said plurality of physical collectible items is a trading card, a second one of said plurality of physical collectible items is a comic book, and a third one of said plurality of physical collectible items is a figurine ; a database, wherein each one of said plurality of collectible items is associated with a different one of a plurality of unique tokens in said database; and an online marketplace, wherein said plurality of physical collectible items are listed for sale on said online marketplace, said first one of said physical collectible items is associated with a first owner, said first one of said physical collectible items is purchased on said marketplace by a second owner, and a change of ownership from said first owner to said second owner is associated with said token for said first one of said physical collectible items as a result of said.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein a shipment request is received from said second owner of said first one of said physical collectibles and said first one of said physical collectibles is prepared for shipment based on said shipment request.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said database is a public blockchain and said token is a non-fungible token .

4. The system of claim 1, wherein said database is a private blockchain and said token is a non-fungible token .

5. The system of claim 1, wherein said database is a relational database.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein a request to grade said first one of said plurality of physical collectibles is received from said second owner and said first one of said plurality of physical collectibles is graded.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein said first one of said plurality of physical collectibles is ultrasonically permanently sealed.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein said first one of said plurality of physical collectibles is ultrasonically permanently sealed and said second one of said plurality of physical collectibles is thermally permanently sealed.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein said first one of said plurality of physical collectibles is ultrasonically permanently sealed, said second one of said plurality of physical collectibles is thermally permanently sealed, and said third one of said plurality of physical collectible s is ultrasonically permanently sealed .

10 . The system of claim 1 , wherein said first one of said plurality of physical collectibles is ultra sonically permanently sealed , said second one of said plurality of physical collectibles is ultra sonically permanently sealed , and said third one of said plurality of physical collectibles is ultra sonically permanently sealed .

11 . The system of claim 1 , wherein said first one of said plurality of physical collectibles is stored in said vault on a shelving unit having at least one thousand individual collectible shelf cavities wherein said first one of said physical collectibles is stored in one of said at least one thousand individual collectible shelf cavities , and said first one of said physical collectibles is not able to physically touch another collectible stored in said at least one thousand individual collectible shelf cavities when first one of said physical collectibles is stored in said one of said at least one thousand individual collectible shelf cavities .

12 . A system comprising : a physical security vault ; a plurality of collectible items stored in said security vault , wherein each one of said plurality of collectible items is permanently encapsulated in a separate transparent polymer casing with a unique printed tag ; a database , wherein each one of said plurality of collectible items is as sociated with a dif ferent one of a plurality of unique tokens in said database ; and an online secondary marketplace , wherein each one of said plurality of physical collectible items are owned by one of a plurality of owners and listed for sale on said online marketplace , a second owner purchases one of said plurality of physical collectibles on said online secondary marketplace and said token as sociated with said purchased physical collectible is as sociated with said second owner , wherein said second owner submits a request to grade said purchased physical collectible , said purchased physical collectible is graded, and said graded physical collectible is listed for sale on said secondary marketplace by said second owner .

13 . The system of claim 1 , wherein an additional collectible item i s received by said vault by said first owner that i s not permanently encapsulated, an additional unique token is generated for said additional collectible item, an additional unique printed tag is printed for said additional collectible item, and said additional collectible item is permanently encapsulated in a polymer casing with said additional unique physical tag .

14 . The system of claim 13 , wherein said additional collectible item is li sted for sale by said first owner on said online secondary marketplace , an additional owner purchases said additional collectible item from said online secondary marketplace , a change of ownership i s as sociated with said additional unique token from said first owner to said additional owner , - 131 - and said second owner li sts said additional collectible item for sale on said secondary marketplace .

15 . The system of claim 13 , wherein said additional owner submits a request on said online secondary marketplace to grade the quality of said additional collectible and said additional collectible item is graded .

16 . The system of claim 13 , wherein without changing the physical location of additional collectible , said additional owner submits a request on said online secondary marketplace for said additional collectible item to be auctioned at a third party auction house , said additional collectible item is auctioned at said third party auction house to an auction winner , the ownership of said additional collectible is updated to said auction winner , and said auction winner lists said additional collectible for sale on said online secondary marketplace .

17 . A system comprising : a physical security vault ; a plurality of collectible items stored in said security vault , wherein each one of said plurality of collectible items is permanently encapsulated in a separate transparent polymer casing with a unique printed tag ; a blockchain , wherein each one of said plurality of collectible items is as sociated with a different one of a plurality of unique tokens and each one of said plurality of collectible items is as sociated with one of plurality of owners ; and - 132 - an online secondary marketplace , wherein each one of said plurality of physical collectible items are owned by one of a plurality of owners and listed for sale on said online marketplace , a first one of said plurality of said physical collectibles is purchased by a first one of said plurality of owners , and said blockchain is updated to ref lect said ownership change of said first one of said plurality of said physical collectibles to said first one of said plurality of owners .