Document Validation System and Method
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1. A product validation system for a product or material for at least one of validating product or material conformance with certification requirements and determining whether the product or material is subject to recall, restriction, alert, warning or quarantine, comprising:
- a certification document including at least one of a certification statement certifying compliance with at least one of (i) a material or product property and a regulatory, customer, supplier and a commercial requirement for said product or material, and (ii) a statement identifying the produce or material as subject to recall, restriction, alert, warning or quarantine,a unique identifier for at least one of a shipment, container or item of said product or material, the unique identifier being carried by an identifier holder;
wherein the unique identifier carried by the identifier holder is accessible by at least one identifier interrogator, andwherein the at least one identifier interrogator is configured to receive validation and/or recall, restriction, alert, warning or quarantine information associated with said certification document from a dynamic source of validation information in response to reading of the unique identifier from the identifier holder.
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Abstract
The present invention relates generally to the field of self-validating documents in supply chain management, documentation services and method for creating the same.
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1. A product validation system for a product or material for at least one of validating product or material conformance with certification requirements and determining whether the product or material is subject to recall, restriction, alert, warning or quarantine, comprising:
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a certification document including at least one of a certification statement certifying compliance with at least one of (i) a material or product property and a regulatory, customer, supplier and a commercial requirement for said product or material, and (ii) a statement identifying the produce or material as subject to recall, restriction, alert, warning or quarantine, a unique identifier for at least one of a shipment, container or item of said product or material, the unique identifier being carried by an identifier holder; wherein the unique identifier carried by the identifier holder is accessible by at least one identifier interrogator, and wherein the at least one identifier interrogator is configured to receive validation and/or recall, restriction, alert, warning or quarantine information associated with said certification document from a dynamic source of validation information in response to reading of the unique identifier from the identifier holder. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method for, during and after receipt of a shipment of a product or material, at least one of validating product conformance with certification requirements and determining whether the shipment is subject to recall, restriction, alert, warning or quarantine, comprising:
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providing a unique identifier for the shipment of said product or material on or in an identifier holder configured to accompany the product or material during the shipment; interrogating the identifier holder with a non-contact identifier reading device to retrieve the unique identifier; transmitting the unique identifier to a dynamic source of validation information; and retrieving at least one of validation information and recall, restriction, alert, warning or quarantine information associated with the unique identifier from the dynamic source of validation information to the non-contact identifier reading device. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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