US 2013/0211870 A1 · REAL-TIME TRACKING OF PRODUCT USING A CLOUD PLATFORM

Abstract

A cloud-based product tracking system is provided. The product tracking system runs on a cloud platform and collects data from multiple devices throughout a supply chain, the data relating to production, transportation, storage, and sales of a product. Related subsets of the collected data are aggregated and correlated at the cloud platform based on contextual metadata associated with the data, a data model of the supply chain and systems therein, or other such factors. The cloud-based tracking system analyzes the correlated information to determine a status of a product within the supply chain. The tracking system also leverages the correlated data to analyze product flow, identify inefficiencies within the supply chain, and generate recommendations for modifying portions of the supply chain to mitigate the identified inefficiencies.

Claims22

Dependent claims

A product tracking system, comprising:

a memory that stores computer-executable components;
a processor operatively coupled to the memory that executes computer-executable components, including:
a device interface component configured to receive supply chain data from devices of a supply chain, wherein the device interface component receives the supply chain data on a cloud platform;
a correlation component configured to aggregate and correlate subsets of the supply chain data to yield correlated data;
and
a tracking component configured to determine a status of a product within the supply chain based on the correlated data.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

13/725,543Filed 21 Dec 2012

Priority

9 Feb 2012

Published

15 Aug 2013

Term ends

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Classification21 codes

H04L 67/125
Specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or…:…
G06F 21/64
Protecting data: protecting data integrity, e.g. using checksums, certificates or signatures
H04L 12/66
Data switching networks: arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways
H04L 43/04
Arrangements for monitoring or testing data switching networks: processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation

Real-time tracking of product using a cloud platform

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Real-time tracking of product using a cloud platform

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Abstract

Claims22