SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY EXCHANGING LOGISTIC INFORMATION, AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREOF

• US 20130007105A1
• Filed: 08/26/2011
• Published: 01/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Dimerco Express (U.S.A.) Corporation
• Original Assignee: Dimerco Express (U.S.A.) Corporation
• Inventors: Chen, Li-Jen
• Application Number:
  US13/219,149
• Publication Number:
  US 20130007105A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/083 Shipping
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]

Abstract

A system and method is provided for automatically exchanging a set of logistic information between information client stations. A central information server is used to retrieve a logistic message file from an origin information client station and transmit to a destination information client station. In the origin information client station, multiple digital logistic data corresponding to the logistic information are retrieved, serialized, encrypted and compressed to form the logistic message file. According to the origin-destination information of the logistic message file, the central information server builds a FTP (File Transfer Protocol), connection with the origin information client station, and the destination information client station respectively to retrieve and transmit the logistic message file. The destination information client station decompresses, decrypts, and parses the logistic message file into the digital logistic data corresponding to the logistic information.

Claims

1. A system for automatically exchanging logistic information, comprising:

a startpoint information client station, storing a plurality of digital logistic data corresponding to at least a set of logistic information input by a startpoint user into a startpoint information-client database, encrypting and compressing the digital logistic data to generate a logistic message file and store into a startpoint information-client file subsystem;

a central information server, enquiring to find the logistic message file and a startpoint-destination information from the startpoint information client station, and establishing a startpoint-relay FTP (File Transmission Protocol) connection with the startpoint information client station, the central information server retrieving the logistic message file and storing into a central file subsystem of the central information server; and

at least a destination information client station, establishing a relay-destination FTP connection with the central information server to receive the logistic message file transmitted from the central information server, the logistic message file being decompressed, decrypted and parsed into the digital logistic data corresponding to the logistic information.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein a filename of the logistic message file comprises the startpoint-destination information.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the startpoint information client station comprises a process methodology database, and the startpoint information client station retrieves at least a portion of the digital logistic data according to at least one logistic processing procedure stored in the process methodology database.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the central information server executes a FTP-Client Procedure, and the startpoint information client station and the destination information client station respectively execute a FTP-Server Procedure, so as to establish the startpoint-relay FTP connection and the relay-destination FTP connection respectively.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the startpoint information client station, the central information server and the destination information client station respectively records a log file of transmitting the logistic message file.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the logistic message file received from the central information server is stored into a destination information-client file subsystem of the destination information client station.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein a startpoint interface module is used by the startpoint user to input the logistic information, and a destination user accesses the logistic information through a destination interface module, each of the startpoint interface module and the destination interface module comprising at least an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) procedure.

8. A method for automatically exchanging logistic information, comprising:

at a startpoint information client station, storing a plurality of digital logistic data corresponding to at least a set of logistic information input by a startpoint user into a startpoint information-client database;

encrypting and compressing the digital logistic data to generate a logistic message file and store into a startpoint information-client file subsystem of the startpoint information client station;

according to a startpoint-destination information of the logistic message file, establishing a startpoint-relay FTP (File Transmission Protocol) connection between a central information server and the startpoint information client station, and establishing a relay-destination FTP connection between the central information server and a destination information client station;

retrieving and transmitting the logistic message file through the central information server;

receiving the logistic message file at the destination information client station; and

decompressing, decrypting and parsing the logistic message file into the digital logistic data corresponding to the logistic information.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein a filename of the logistic message file comprises the startpoint-destination information.

10. The method according to claim 8 further comprising a step of retrieving the digital logistic data according to at least a logistic processing procedure.

11. The method according to claim 8, wherein the central information server executes a FTP-Client Procedure, and the startpoint information client station and the destination information client station respectively execute a FTP-Server Procedure, so as to establish the startpoint-relay FTP connection and the relay-destination FTP connection respectively.

12. The method according to claim 8 further comprising a step of determining whether a transmission route of the logistic message file is an internal path or an external path.

13. The method according to claim 8 further comprising a step of outputting the logistic information corresponding to the digital logistic data.

14. The method according to claim 8 further comprising a step of recording a log file of transmitting the logistic message file.

15. A computer-readable storage medium storing a plurality of computer-executable commands thereon, a method for automatically exchanging logistic information being executed when the computer-executable commands are executed, the method for automatically exchanging logistic information comprising:

at a startpoint information client station, storing a plurality of digital logistic data corresponding to at least a set of logistic information input by a startpoint user into a startpoint information-client database;

encrypting and compressing the digital logistic data to generate a logistic message file and store into a startpoint information-client file subsystem of the startpoint information client station;

according to a startpoint-destination information of the logistic message file, establishing a startpoint-relay FTP (File Transmission Protocol) connection between a central information server and the startpoint information client station, and establishing a relay-destination FTP connection between the central information server and a destination information client station;

retrieving and transmitting the logistic message file through the central information server;

receiving the logistic message file at the destination information client station; and

decompressing, decrypting and parsing the logistic message file into the digital logistic data corresponding to the logistic information.

16. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 15, wherein a filename of the logistic message file comprises the startpoint-destination information.

17. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 15 retrieving the digital logistic data according to at least a logistic processing procedure.

18. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 15, wherein the central information server executes a FTP-Client Procedure, and the startpoint information client station and the destination information client station respectively execute a FTP-Server Procedure, so as to establish the startpoint-relay FTP connection and the relay-destination FTP connection respectively.

19. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 15 further comprising a step of determining whether a transmission route of the logistic message file is an internal path or an external path.

20. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 15 further comprising a step of outputting the logistic information corresponding to the digital logistic data.