Universal product code conversion to electronic product code

• US 20050109844A1
• Filed: 11/26/2003
• Published: 05/26/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/26/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Quake Global, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Alysis Interactive Corporation
• Inventors: Hilliard, Nick
• Application Number:
  US10/707,216
• Publication Number:
  US 20050109844A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/383
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 1/18 by transferring data from one type of record carrier on to another type of record carrier, e.g. from magnetic tape to punched card

Abstract

A method and apparatus for converting or translating descriptions of products encoded in the Universal Product Code (UPC) or Uniform Code Council 12 (UCC-12) format to the Electronic Product Code (EPC) format.

Claims

1. A method and apparatus for converting or translating descriptions of products encoded in the Universal Product Code (UPC) or Uniform Code Council 12 (UCC-12) format to the Electronic Product Code (EPC) format comprising:

a means of loading and storing registers;

and a means of multiplying, dividing, shifting or adding register contents.

2. A method according to claim 1 wherein the operation of storage of a register involves only shift operations.

3. A method according to claim 1 wherein the operation of storage of a register involves only multiplication or division operations.

4. A method according to claim 1 wherein the operation of storage of a register involves a mix of multiplication, division, or shift operations.

5. A method according to claim 1 wherein the entire operation of the method or parts of it are embodied within digital logic gates.

6. A method according to claim 1 wherein the entire operations of the method or parts of it are embodied within a Hamiltonian or other matrix operation.

7. A method according to claim 1 wherein all values to be incorporated into the resulting EPC code are extracted from input and from the UPC code before being incorporated, via a single bit-field storage command into the target EPC storage range.