Manifest integrity management via radio frequency identification (RFID)

US8570159B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Vijay Kumar Bhadriraju · Durham, US
• Thomas T. Hanis · Raleigh, US
• Frederick W. Rowe · Raleigh, US
• John Kenneth Senegal · Durham, US
• Donnie Allen Smith, Jr. · Raleigh, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 23, 2009
• Grant date: Oct 29, 2013
• Expiry date: Jun 6, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/08
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and computer program product for manifest integrity management via radio frequency identification (RFID). A manifest integrity management method can include scanning different RFID tags affixed to different objects for placement in a container. The method also can include determining both common data for all of the different RFID tags, and unique data for each of the different RFID tags. Finally, the method can include encoding an RFID tag for the container with an entry for the common data for the different RFID tags, and each unique data for each of the different RFID tags. In this way, a manifest can be created for the objects in the container.