Egg Code Management Method and Egg Search Code Management System

• US 20090078213A1
• Filed: 12/07/2006
• Published: 03/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Consumer Cooperative Company-Op Sapporo
• Original Assignee: Consumer Cooperative Company-Op Sapporo
• Inventors: Omatsu, Shigehisa
• Granted Patent: US 8,082,191 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 119/345
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 29/00 Other apparatus for animal husbandry
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 43/10 Grading and stamping
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass

Abstract

An egg search code, that can be used for accurately searching history information of an egg using a number of digits printable on the egg, is assigned to the egg, and the history information of the egg can be accurately identified based on the egg search code assigned to the egg. An unused egg search code out of the totality of egg search codes is determined and will be used as the egg search code to be assigned to the egg. The determined egg search code is assigned to all eggs having identical history information. The egg search code assigned to the egg is related to the egg history code and an egg collection date code, and is stored. The egg history code related to the egg collection date code and the egg search code is searched for, in compliance with a provision request, submitted from a consumer terminal, for history information, the provision request containing the egg collection date code and/or the egg search code. The history information identified by the searched egg history code is transmitted to the consumer terminal through a communication network.

Claims

1. A method for managing an egg search code that, in order to provide history information of an egg in a traceability system, assigns an egg search code to the egg so as to identify the history information of the egg and manages the assigned egg search code, comprising:

determining any of unused egg search codes out of available egg search codes, related to a history identification code in order to identify the history information of each egg, as the egg search code to be assigned to the egg;

assigning the determined egg search code to eggs having identical history information;

relating the egg search code assigned to the eggs to the history identification code and an egg collection date code that can identify an egg collection date;

storing the egg search code;

in compliance with a provision request for the history information of the egg from a terminal apparatus, the provision request submitting the egg collection date related code that can identify the egg collection date code and/or the egg search code, searching for the history identification code related to the egg collection date code identified by an egg collection date related code and the egg search code; and

transmitting the history information identified by using the searched history identification code to the terminal apparatus through a communication network.

2. The method for managing the egg code according to claim 1, wherein the egg collection date code is related to upper digits of the egg search code and the history identification code is related to lower digits of the egg search code, further comprising:

in compliance with the provision request for the history information of the egg from the terminal apparatus, the provision request submitting the egg search code, searching for the history identification code related to the history information request using the lower digits of the egg collection code.

3. The method for managing the egg code according to claim 1, wherein the egg collection date related code is defined to be a code related uniquely to the egg collection date code, a use-by date code indicating a use-by date, or a sell-by date code indicating a sell-by date, or to the egg search code.

7. The method for managing the egg code according to claim 2, wherein the egg collection date related code is defined to be a code related uniquely to the egg collection date code, a use-by date code indicating a use-by date, or a sell-by date code indicating a sell-by date, or to the egg search code.

4. An egg search code management system comprising

an egg search code management server issuing the egg search code related to the history identification code to identify history information of each egg and managing the issued egg search, code;

an egg search code assigning apparatus assigning an egg search code to each, egg and

an apparatus management server performing an issue request for issuance of the egg search to the egg search code management server and notifying the egg search code assigning apparatus that an egg search code has been created and to assign the egg search code to the egg,

the egg search code management server further comprises

an egg search code issuer for issuing any of unused egg search codes out of the totality of egg search codes as the egg search code to be assigned to the egg in compliance with the issue request from the apparatus management;

server and

a code storer for relating the egg search code issued by the egg search code issuer to the history identification code and the egg collection date code that can identify the egg collection date and for further storing the related code,

the egg search code assigning apparatus further comprises

an egg search code assigner to assign the egg search code issued by the egg search code issuer to eggs having identical history, and

wherein the egg search code management server searches the history identification code related to the egg collection date code identified by the egg collection date related code and the egg search code, and transmits the history information identified by the searched history identification code to a terminal apparatus through a communication network, complying with a provision request, from the terminal apparatus, for the history information, the provision request submitting the egg collection date related code that can identify the egg search code and/or the egg search code.

5. The egg code management system according to claim 4, wherein

the egg collection date code is related to upper digits of the egg search code and the history identification code is related to lower digits of the egg search code;

and

the egg search code management server, in compliance with the provision request, searches for the history identification code related to the lower digits of the egg collection date code.

6. The egg code management system according to claim 4, wherein the egg collection date related code is a code related uniquely to the egg collection date code, the use-by date code indicating the use-by date, or the sell-by date code indicating the sell-by date, or to the egg search code.

8. The method for managing the egg code according to claim 5, wherein the egg collection date related code is defined to be a code related uniquely to the egg collection date code, a use-by date code indicating a use-by date, or a sell-by date code indicating a sell-by date, or to the egg search code.