System, method, computer program product for communicating data for objects that are transported from first location to second location

US7103886B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Stephan Haller · Karlsruhe, DE
• Richard Swan · Portola Valley, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 19, 2001
• Grant date: Sep 5, 2006
• Expiry date: Oct 2, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06K7/0008
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Computer-assisted procedure (501/502) to communicate data in a transportation system (90) that physically transports objects (800) from first to second locations (10, 20). The objects (800) have write/read memory tags (300). Prior to communicating data is separated into meta-data M and content-data C. Communicated are: C on the tags (300), M through a computer network, and type-data T (representing M) on the tags. System computers (901, 902, 900) perform complementary methods for forwarding (501) and retrieving (502). To forward (501) data from the first location (10), a first computer (901) queries (510) an exchange computer (901) with M for T according to a predefined T-to-M table, writes T to the tags (300), and writes C to the tags (300). To retrieve (502) data at the second location (20) where the objects arrive, a second computer (902) reads T from the (300), queries (550) the exchange computer (900) with T for M according to the same table, and reads (560) C from the tags (300).