Data Collection System with Document Production Capability
First Claim
1. A computer program product, tangibly embodied in an information carrier, for use in a commercial data processing environment using at least one RFID/EPC readers and antennae for data collection, the computer program being able to read and collect tag data as it is read, create business documents for the user from a set of business rules and pre-built business document templates in electronic storage, convert both the business document and the tag data into separate database structures, join the two database structures into a single database structure and convert the single database structure back into the required business document format.
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Abstract
A computer program product, tangibly embodied in an information carrier, for use in a commercial data processing environment using at least one RFID/EPC readers and antennae for data collection. The computer program is able to read and collect tag data as it is read, create business documents for the user from a set of business rules and pre-built business document templates in electronic storage, convert both the business document and the tag data into separate database structures and join the two database structures into a single database structure. The single database structure in converted back into the required business document format.
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- 1. A computer program product, tangibly embodied in an information carrier, for use in a commercial data processing environment using at least one RFID/EPC readers and antennae for data collection, the computer program being able to read and collect tag data as it is read, create business documents for the user from a set of business rules and pre-built business document templates in electronic storage, convert both the business document and the tag data into separate database structures, join the two database structures into a single database structure and convert the single database structure back into the required business document format.
- 11. A document production system for objects identified by an RFID tag containing an electronic product code as the unique tag identifier comprising computer means to receive object identification data and compare object identification data over the internet with stored meta data pertaining to the object, and retrieve said meta data from an external source, a document repository data base containing business documents relating to the object for specific businesses and means to insert object data taken from said meta data into a plurality of business documents to create object specific business documents.
- 17. A document production system for objects identified by an RFID tag containing an electronic product code as the unique tag identifier comprising at least one reader to read said objects RFID tag and transmit identification data to a computer means, said computer means receiving object identification data from said RFID tag and comparing object identification data over the internet with stored meta data provided by an external computer system pertaining to the object and retrieving said meta data from said external source, a document repository data base containing business documents taken from a group consisting of orders, pick lists, acknowledgements, confirmations, shipping notices, shipping receipts, inventory records, invoices and maintenance advice, and means to insert object data taken from said retrieved meta data into at least one business document to create an object specific business document.
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