FARMING DATA COLLECTION AND EXCHANGE SYSTEM

• US 20170046639A1
• Filed: 10/28/2016
• Published: 02/16/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Crop Ventures, Inc., Farmer's Edge Inc (Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Farmer's Edge Inc (Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: Osborne, Ronald W., Gerlock, Heath Garret, Nuss, Randall Thomas
• Application Number:
  US15/338,152
• Publication Number:
  US 20170046639A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/4027 using bus bridges G06F13/4022 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/4282 on a serial bus, e.g. I2C bus, SPI bus on daisy chain buses G06F13/4247
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0631 Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/02 Agriculture; Fishing; Forestry; Mining
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/40215 Controller Area Network CAN
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/025 using location based information parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]

Abstract

Various embodiments provide a relay device for farming vehicles and implements, as well as an online farming data exchange, which together enable capturing, processing and sharing of the farming operation data generated during combined use of the farming vehicle and farming implement at a farming business. The farming operation data includes detailed information about individual farming operations.

Claims

4-1. The relay device of claim 1, wherein the communications protocol is the ISOBUS 11783 standard.

13. A server system for collecting and processing farming operation data for a farming business, the server system comprising:

a database configured to store;

a user account;

an electronic farming record for the farming business, the electronic farming record including entries representing farming operations performed at the farming business;

a farming device profile for a farming device, the device profile defining a device class, a version, and a communication protocol for communicating with the farming implement over a message path;

a controller configured to receive and store in the database operating event messages produced by a relay device associated with the user account, each message comprising;

an operating event indicating a parameter of the farming device carrying out a farming operation in a field, the operating event based on electronic control unit (ECU) messages received by the relay device across a message path from the farming device;

a computer program comprising programming instructions that, when executed by the microprocessor, will cause the microprocessor to;

create a new entry in the electronic farming record, the new entry including an identifier for the operating event and the operating event from the message.

14-1. The server system of claim 1,

wherein the relay device is physically attached to the farming device;

wherein the relay device is physically remote from the server system; and