One human-readable code
for everything online.
FileKey is a patented universal identifier system — imagine a UPC barcode that works across every store, website, and device on the internet, but written in words a human can actually remember.
Think of a UPC code
that works everywhere.
A grocery-store barcode only resolves inside that store's local system. The same can of beans at Walmart has different data than at Kroger. FileKey solves that — one identifier, globally unique, resolvable from anywhere on the internet, the same way DNS resolves a domain name.
A FileKey is a code, but written like a word or short phrase. Easier to remember than a phone number. Easier to type than a 12-digit barcode. Human-friendly by design.
Same architecture as DNS — distributed, globally unique, and accessible from anywhere the internet reaches. Internal/intranet deployments are supported too.
Advantages
FileKey can identify anything — a document, an operating system, a screw in a phone, a finished product on a shelf. Below are the categories where the leverage is largest.
E-Commerce
The same FileKey at Amazon, Best Buy, or a local shop refers to the identical product. Real apples-to-apples price comparison becomes trivial.
Accessories
Batteries, cables, mounts, replacement parts — definitive cross-reference, not guesswork. Either the FileKey is listed as compatible or it isn't.
Revisions & Upgrades
Track every revision of a product, every patch of a piece of software, every firmware version of a device, in one universal namespace.
Drivers & Patches
One update system instead of five. Windows Update, driver updaters, application patchers — all resolvable through a single FileKey lookup.
Plug & Play
A device's BIOS carries its FileKey. Plug it in and the OS resolves the newest, most reliable driver automatically. No searching, no version guessing.
Business to Business
Manufacturers stop duplicating each other's product databases. nVidia publishes its driver record once; Dell, HP, and Lenovo all read from the same source of truth.
George C. Fassett, Jr.
CEO · Strategic Advisor · U.S. Patent Holder
George is a strategic, entrepreneurial executive with three decades of company leadership. He founded THUMBTECHS Corporation in 1995, growing it into one of Tarrant County's leading managed-IT providers, and currently leads Mebius Business Advisors, a boutique consulting group helping companies navigate strategic, organizational, and technology change.
In 1996 — while running game-modification sites for Quake, Half-Life, and Unreal — he began developing the FileKey concept as a way to organize the explosion of files, mods, drivers, and accessories the gaming community was generating. He filed the provisional patent in 1999 and was awarded U.S. Patent #6,532,481 in 2003 for the Product identifier, catalog and locator system and method.
The gaming-site implementation worked — users loved the functionality, even if they never understood the underlying technology. The sites have since retired, but the patent and the architecture remain. Today, George and Fassett Investments, Inc. are actively looking for partners ready to build FileKey into the products, platforms, and infrastructure of the next decade.
- · Fort Worth Business Press — 40 Under 40 (2014)
- · Samaritan House Spirit of Hope Award (2015)
- · External Cybersecurity Advisor to Mayor Betsy Price
- · TCU College of Science & Engineering Advisory Board
The patent is real. The architecture works.
It's waiting to be built.
We're inviting builders, manufacturers, retailers, and platform teams to embrace the FileKey idea and work directly with George Fassett and Fassett Investments, Inc. to incorporate the patented technology into their next-generation products.