Automatic processing of agricultural data

• US 8,479,221 B2
• Filed: 11/20/2009
• Issued: 07/02/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International (Corteva, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International (Corteva, Inc.)
• Inventors: Macy, Ted S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Truong, Lechi
• Application Number:
  US12/622,812
• Publication Number:
  US 20110126211A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,320 Days
• Field of Search: 719/318
• US Class Current: 719/318
• 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 a computing device for events associated with receipt of agricultural data at the computing device through use of a service executing on the computing device;

notifying at least one component of a software system executing on the computing device of the receipt of the agricultural data by sending a message from the service executing on the computing device to a kernel executing on the computing device;

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 is performed by at least one communicator component.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the at least one communicator component formats the agricultural data for use by the receiving service.

7. 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.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the agricultural data comprises geoposition data.

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

10. The method of claim 8 wherein the agricultural data further comprises environmental data.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the automatically monitoring for events is performed by at least one trigger component executing on the computing device.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising receiving user inputs for use in defining triggers associated with the at least one trigger component.

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

14. The method of claim 13 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.