AUTOMATIC PROCESSING OF AGRICULTURAL DATA

• US 20110126211A1
• Filed: 11/20/2009
• Published: 05/26/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International (Corteva, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: MapShots, Inc.
• Inventors: MACY, TED S.
• Granted Patent: US 8,479,221 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 719/313
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/545 where tasks reside in different layers, e.g. user- and kernel-space
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management

Abstract

Methods for agricultural data management include automatically monitoring for events associated with receipt of agricultural data through use of a service executing on a computing device, notifying at least one component of a software system executing on the computing device of the receipt of the agricultural data, processing the agricultural data by the at least one component and storing the agricultural data in a data repository, and automatically distributing the agricultural data from the data repository in a predetermined format.

Claims

1. A method for agricultural data management, comprising:

automatically monitoring for events associated with receipt of agricultural data through use of a service executing on a computing device;

notifying at least one component of a software system executing on the computing device of the receipt of the agricultural data;

processing the agricultural data by the at least one component and storing the agricultural data in a data repository; and

automatically distributing the agricultural data from the data repository in a predetermined format.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising sending a message from the service executing on the computing device to a kernel executing on the computing device upon occurrence of the events.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the notifying the at least one component comprises sending a message to each of the at least one component from a kernel executing on the computing device.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the automatically distributing comprises sending the agricultural data from the data repository to a receiving service.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the sending the agricultural data from the data repository to the receiving service being performed by a communicator.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein at least one of the events comprises insertion of a memory card, a wireless data transfer through a port, a synchronization event with a mobile device, or receipt of an email.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the agricultural data includes geoposition data.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the agricultural data further comprises as-applied data.

9. The method of claim 7 wherein the agricultural data further comprises environmental data.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the automatically monitoring for events is performed by a trigger component executing on the computing device.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprising defining events associated with the receipt of the agricultural data.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein the step of defining events comprises using user-specified parameters to assist in defining the events associated with the receipt of the agricultural data.

13. A method for agricultural data management, the method comprising:

providing a software system stored on a computer readable medium for executing on a computing device, the software system having a kernel, at least one trigger component for monitoring events, at least one converter component, and at least one communicator component;

electronically receiving agricultural data from the computing device, wherein the agricultural data is sent from the software system using at least one communicator component.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein the agricultural data comprises geoposition data.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein the agricultural data comprises environmental data.

16. The method of claim 14 wherein the agricultural data comprises as-applied data.

17. The method of claim 13 wherein at least one of the events comprises insertion of a memory card, a wireless data transfer through a port, synchronization with a mobile device, or receipt of an email.

18. The method of claim 13 further comprising receiving user inputs for use in defining triggers associated with the at least one trigger component.

19. The method of claim 13 wherein the at least one communicator component formats the agricultural data for use by a receiving service.

20. An article for use on a computing device, comprising:

a computer readable medium storing a software application configured for monitoring for events associated with receipt of agricultural data through use of a service executing on the computing device, notifying a converter component executing on the computing device of the receipt of the agricultural data, processing the agricultural data by the converter component, storing the agricultural data in a data repository, and electronically distributing the agricultural data in a predetermined format by a communicator;

wherein the software application executes on the computing device.