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System and method for pallet identification based on threshold of case-level tags

  • US 7,739,147 B2
  • Filed: 06/06/2006
  • Issued: 06/15/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

  • reading a plurality of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags that are in proximity to an RFID reader while the RFID tags, affixed to a plurality of objects, are being unloaded, wherein a plurality of the RFID tags are pallet-level RFID tags and a plurality of the RFID tags are item-level RFID tags;

    marking as received each record in a manifest that corresponds to each of the read RFID tags, wherein a plurality of the marked records are item-level records and wherein at least one of the marked records is a pallet-level record;

    identifying an unmarked pallet-level record in the manifest, wherein the unmarked pallet-level record was not marked as received;

    tallying a count of a number of item-level records marked as received that correspond to the unmarked pallet-level record;

    identifying a vendor and a type of good corresponding to the unmarked pallet-level record;

    retrieving a vendor rating based upon the identified vendor;

    retrieving a type of goods error rating based upon the identified type of good;

    computing a threshold based upon the vendor rating and the type of goods error rating;

    comparing the tallied count to the computed threshold; and

    in response to the comparison revealing that the tallied count of the number of item-level records marked as received is equal to or greater than the computed threshold, marking the unmarked pallet-level record as received and marking the unmarked item-level records that correspond to the pallet-level record as likely received, and in response to the tallied count being less than the computed threshold, performing shipment error processing for the pallet corresponding to the unmarked pallet-level record.

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