Food tracking system with mobile phone uplink
First Claim
1. A method of tracing the origin of food products comprising steps ofassociating product codes on a plurality of food product packages with a container code on a container for transporting the food product packages to a harvest site,receiving the container code through a mobile phone connection with the harvest site at which the container is delivered,acquiring information about the mobile phone connection to the harvest site, andrelating the product codes associated with the container code to the information about the mobile phone connection to the harvest site for linking food products placed within the food product packages at the harvest site with information about the harvest site.
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Abstract
A tracking system for food products includes labeled food product packages and labeled containers for transporting the labeled packages to harvest sites. A data-clearing center receives mobile phone communications from the harvest sites for uploading the container codes. Ancillary information collected from the mobile phone communications including the time, date, location, and phone identification is associated with the container codes for linking the labeled food product packages to details of their harvest.
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27 Claims
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1. A method of tracing the origin of food products comprising steps of
associating product codes on a plurality of food product packages with a container code on a container for transporting the food product packages to a harvest site, receiving the container code through a mobile phone connection with the harvest site at which the container is delivered, acquiring information about the mobile phone connection to the harvest site, and relating the product codes associated with the container code to the information about the mobile phone connection to the harvest site for linking food products placed within the food product packages at the harvest site with information about the harvest site.
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13. A method of relating food products to their harvest sites based on product packaging codes of product packages into which the food products are harvested comprising steps of:
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maintaining a data base that associates the product package codes of the product packages to container codes of containers for distributing the product packages, supporting mobile phone connections to harvest sites for communicating container codes of containers delivered to the harvest sites, and linking information relating locations of the harvest sites to the product package codes associated with the container codes of the containers delivered to the harvest sites. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A data-clearing center for relating food products to their harvest sites based on product packaging codes of product packages into which the food products are harvested comprising
an accessible data base that associates the product package codes of the product packages to container codes of containers for distributing the product packages to harvest sites, a mobile phone base for uploading container codes of containers delivered to the harvest sites and for ascertaining locations of the harvest sites from which the uploads originate, and a processor that accesses the data base and links the locations of the harvest sites to the product package codes of the product packages into which the food products are harvested through the association of the product package codes with the container codes of the containers delivered to the harvest sites.
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