METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRACKING LABOR INFORMATION IN THE PRODUCTION OF FOOD PRODUCTS
First Claim
1. An apparatus, comprising:
- a hand-held device including;
a display; and
one or more input devices to sense product identification indicia associated with or affixed to a food product that is grown or raised in an agricultural operation;
the hand-held device including at least one processor to;
a) determine a machine-readable identification code from the product identification indicia;
b) send the identification code to at least one remote server;
c) receive, from the at least one remote server, information that is associated with the product, the information including labor information that is associated with the production of the food product, the labor information being indicative of one or more attributes of the labor used to produce the food product, the one or more attributes selected from the group;
labor working conditions, labor pay rates, labor health care, or the age of laborers; and
d) display at least some of the labor information on the display in human readable form.
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Abstract
Various embodiments of the present disclosure include methods and apparatus for tracking labor information in the production of food products. In an example embodiment, an apparatus comprises a hand-held device including a display and one or more input devices to sense product identification indicia associated with or affixed to a food product that is grown or raised in an agricultural operation. The hand-held device includes at least one processor to determine a machine-readable identification code from the product identification indicia; send the identification code to at least one remote server; receive, from the at least one remote server, information that is associated with the product, the information including labor information that is associated with the production of the food product; and display at least some of the labor information on the display in human readable form.
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50 Claims
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
a hand-held device including; a display; and one or more input devices to sense product identification indicia associated with or affixed to a food product that is grown or raised in an agricultural operation; the hand-held device including at least one processor to; a) determine a machine-readable identification code from the product identification indicia; b) send the identification code to at least one remote server; c) receive, from the at least one remote server, information that is associated with the product, the information including labor information that is associated with the production of the food product, the labor information being indicative of one or more attributes of the labor used to produce the food product, the one or more attributes selected from the group;
labor working conditions, labor pay rates, labor health care, or the age of laborers; andd) display at least some of the labor information on the display in human readable form. - View Dependent Claims (2)
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7. A system comprising one or more processors to:
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a) receive an identification code from one or more input devices, the identification code corresponding to a food product; b) receive or store information that is associated with the product, the information including labor information that is associated with the production of the food product, the labor information being indicative of one or more attributes of the labor used to produce the food product, the one or more attributes selected from the group;
labor working conditions, labor pay rates, labor health care, or the age of laborers; andc) send to a display, in response to receiving the identification code, at least some of the information associated with the product. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9)
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18. A computer-implemented method comprising using one or more processors to:
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a) receive an identification code from one or more input devices, the identification code corresponding to a food product; b) receive or store information that is associated with the product, the information including labor information that is associated with the production of the food product, the labor information being indicative of one or more attributes of the labor used to produce the food product, the one or more attributes selected from the group;
labor working conditions, labor pay rates, labor health care, or the age of laborers; andc) send to a display, in response to receiving the identification code, at least some of the information that is associated with the product. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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24. A method of processing data pertaining to an agricultural product, the method comprising receiving data from a custodian of an agricultural product, the data including product data pertaining to the agricultural product, the product data being indicative of one or more attributes of the labor used to produce the agricultural product, the one or more attributes selected from the group:
- labor working conditions, labor pay rates, labor health care, or the age of laborers at a custodial location.
- View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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49. Computing apparatus, comprising:
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a machine-readable computer database to; store machine-readable agricultural labor information showing at least one aspect of production of a food product; and store machine-readable agricultural product identification data in the computer database; store machine-readable relation data relating the agricultural product identification data to the agricultural labor information; one or more programmed computers operable to; receive machine-readable product identification data from a remote device; and use the relation data to retrieve at least some of the agricultural labor information corresponding to the product identification data; and send the at least some agricultural labor information to the remote device.
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50. (canceled)
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