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US 12,217,209 B2Granted
Article tracking system and method
AssigneeSITA Information Networking Computing USA, Inc.
InventorsAdrien Sanglier, Andrew Eric Malinofsky
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Abstract
An article tracking system and method are provided. The system includes an article identifier, a location identifier, a mobile application stored on a mobile device, and a cloud platform. The mobile application combines article information from the article identifier and location information from the location identifier into a data packet and transmits the data packet to the cloud platform for storage. Creating and sending a data packet for each of a plurality of locations enables to system to record the location history of the article over time.
Claims19
An article tracking system using a mobile device comprising:
- an article identifier for providing electronically readable article information associated with an article to one or more external legacy systems configured to access messages in a teletype format, the article information including a unique article identity and configured to be scanned by the mobile device;
- a location identifier for providing location information related to a current location of the article to the one or more external legacy systems;
- a mobile application stored on the mobile device, the mobile application configured to:
- a. receive GPS coordinates from a GPS module of the mobile device by scanning the location identifier with the mobile device;
- b. in response to receiving the GPS coordinates, generate an API payload comprising the article information and the GPS coordinates, wherein the API payload comprises a lightweight baggage information message in a format unsupported by the one or more external legacy systems;
- c. apply a timestamp to the API payload;
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- d. transmit the timestamped API payload via a transmitter of the mobile device;
- a tracking database configured to receive and store a plurality of timestamped API payloads, thereby to record multiple locations of the article over time;
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- a cloud platform configured to transform the API payload into a teletype baggage processed message format compatible with the one or more external legacy systems to access the GPS coordinates.
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An article tracking method using a mobile device comprising the steps of:
- a. associating an article identifier with an article;
- b. obtaining, via a mobile application stored on the mobile device, electronically readable article information including a unique article identity from the article identifier, wherein the article information is configured to be provided to one or more external legacy systems configured to access messages in a teletype format ;
- c. receiving GPS coordinates from a GPS module of the mobile device by scanning the location identifier with the mobile device;
- d. in response to receiving the GPS coordinates, generate an API payload comprising the article information with the GPS coordinates, wherein the API payload comprises a lightweight baggage information message in a format unsupported by the one or more external legacy systems;
- e. applying a timestamp to the API payload;
- f. transmitting the timestamped API payload via a transmitter of the mobile device;
- g. receiving and storing the timestamped API payload at a tracking database;
- h. transforming the API payload into a teletype baggage processed message format compatible with the one or more external legacy systems to access the GPS coordinates;
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- i. repeating steps b to h for a plurality of locations, thereby to record multiple locations of the article over time.
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An article tracking system using a mobile device comprising:
- an article identifier for providing electronically readable article information associated with an article to one or more external legacy systems configured to access messages in a teletype format, the article information including a unique article identity and configured to be scanned by the mobile device ;
- a location identifier for providing location information related to a current location of the article at each of a plurality of locations to the one or more external legacy systems;
- a mobile application stored on the mobile device, the mobile application configured to:
- a. receive GPS coordinates from a GPS module of the mobile device by scanning the location identifier with the mobile device;
- b. in response to receiving the GPS coordinates, generate an API payload comprising the article information and the GPS coordinates, wherein the API payload comprises a lightweight baggage information message in a format unsupported by the one or more external legacy systems;
- c. apply a timestamp to each of the generated API payloads;
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- d. transmit the timestamped API payloads via a transmitter of the mobile device;
- a tracking database configured to receive and store the plurality of timestamped API payloads, thereby to record locations of the article over time ;
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- a cloud platform configured to transform the API payload into a teletype baggage processed message format compatible with the one or more external legacy systems to access the GPS coordinates.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.