Method and system for tracking
OwnerMario W. Cardulloinventor
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Abstract
A system for tracking using electronic addresses is disclosed. The system stores an identification code, an electronic address, and a counter. The electronic address is made up of either single values or pairs of single values. A pair of single values for at least one of value of the counter is made up of a pseudonumber and a unique address value. The pseudonumber is able to be disentangled to produce a second pair of single values for a different value of the counter, thereby producing a tracking history.
Claims31
A system for tracking an item that traverses a plurality of locations, the system comprising:
- an address reception component configured to receive an electronic address, the address reception component associated with an item being tracked, and the electronic address being indicative of a location;
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- a storage physically associated with the item that stores an identification code, the received electronic address, and a counter value;
- wherein
- the electronic address comprises single values or pairs of single values,
- the pair of single values associated with at least one counter value comprises a pseudonumber and a unique address value, and
- the pseudonumber is arranged to be disentangled to produce a second pair of single values for a different value of the counter.
A method of tracking an item that traverses a plurality of locations, the method comprising:
- receiving a first address;
- incrementing a counter value;
- storing an identification code, the received first address and the counter value in a storage that is physically associated with an item being tracked, the received first address being indicative of a first location;
- pairing a second address with the first address, wherein the second address is associated with a second location;
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- reversibly combining the first address with the second address to produce a pseudonumber, wherein the pseudonumber is arranged to be disentangled to reproduce the first address and the second address based on the counter value.
A method for tracking movement of items, the method comprising:
- a) storing in a memory associated physically with an item being tracked, an address associated with a first location and a counter value;
- b) recognizing a next location and incrementing the counter value and reversibly combining at least a subset of the address of the first location with at least a subset of an address associated with the next location to produce an aggregated address in the memory such that the aggregated address records in a reversibly compressed format all addresses of every location;
- c) repeating step b) for each next location;
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- d) generating an output based on the aggregated address to provide an identity of every location for tracking the movement of the item.
A system for tracking movement of an object, comprising:
- a plurality of address components at different locations, each address component configured to provide an address indicative of the respective different location, the respective different locations including at least an originating location and at least one next location;
- an address reception component at an object being tracked and configured to receive the address when the object is proximate one of the address components;
- a processing component configured to store in a memory a received address associated with the originating location and to count each different location, the processing component further configured to recognize at least one next location based on the received address and to reversibly combine at least a subset of the received address associated with the first location with at least a subset of the address associated with the at least one next location to produce an aggregated address in the memory such that the aggregated address records in a reversibly compressed format each received address;
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- a decompressing component configured to generate an output by reversibly decompressing the aggregated address to provide an address of at least one location for tracking the movement of the object.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.