System and method for quality assurance

Abstract

A quality assurance method is disclosed in which individual packages are selected and grouped together according to what is to be sent to a specific receiver; the method includes providing a group of individual packages at least a plurality of which have visual identifiers thereon; a Pick List in the form of an electronic record identifying what ones of the group of individual packages should be is also provided; the group of individual packages are imaged to provide an electronic image suitable for further processing, the electronic image includes some or all of the visual identifiers; the electronic image is processed to extract information from the some or all of the visual identifiers relating to the individual packages in the group to provide an Electronic Pick List; and the Electronic Pick List is correlated with the Pick List to provide information relating to the relationship between the group of individual packages and what ones of the group of individual packages should be. The disclosed method also includes the step of correcting the relationship between the group of individual packages and what ones of the group of individual packages should be to provide a corrected group of individual packages. The disclosed quality assurance method also includes the step of sending the corrected group of individual packages to the receiver at a remote location. The disclosed quality assurance method also includes the steps of: providing a remote Pick List in the form of a second electronic record identifying what ones of the group of individual packages should be; imaging the corrected group of individual packages at the remote location to provide a remote electronic image suitable for further processing, the remote electronic image including some or all of the visual identifiers; processing the remote electronic image to extract information from the some or all of the visual identifiers relating to the individual packages in the corrected group to provide a remote Electronic Pick List; and correlating the remote Electronic Pick List with the remote Pick List to provide information relating to the relationship between the corrected group of individual packages and what ones of the group of individual packages should be.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.