METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING, BY MODULES IN A SHIPPING FACILITY, MECHANISMS FOR CERTIFYING PROVENANCE OF AN ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE

• US 20080198014A1
• Filed: 01/30/2008
• Published: 08/21/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: eProvenance LLC
• Original Assignee: eProvenance LLC
• Inventors: Vogt, Eric E., Churchill, Ruth
• Application Number:
  US12/022,890
• Publication Number:
  US 20080198014A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/572.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders

Abstract

A system for providing mechanisms for certifying provenance of an alcoholic beverage includes a packing module, a shipping module, and a storage element. The packing module associates a bottle tag number stored by a first radio-frequency identification tag attached to a bottle containing an alcoholic beverage with a tag identification number of a second radio-frequency identification tag attached to a case storing the bottle containing the alcoholic beverage. The shipping module validates the association between the bottle tag number and the tag identification number and activates the second radio-frequency identification tag and activates the second radio-frequency identification tag. The storage element stores the association between the bottle tag number and the tag identification number of the second radio-frequency identification tag.

Claims

1. A system for providing mechanisms for certifying provenance of a bottle containing an alcoholic beverage during its progress through a distribution channel comprising:

a packing module associating a bottle tag number stored by a first radio-frequency identification tag attached to a bottle containing an alcoholic beverage with a tag identification number of a second radio-frequency identification tag attached to a case storing the bottle containing the alcoholic beverage;

a shipping module validating the association between the bottle tag number and the tag identification number of the second radio-frequency identification tag and activating the second radio-frequency identification tag; and

a storage element storing the association between the bottle tag number and the tag identification number of the second radio-frequency identification tag.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the packing module further comprises a transmitter sending, to the storage element, a tag identification number stored by the second radio-frequency identification tag attached to the case.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the second radio-frequency identification tag is configured to measure a plurality of values of an environmental condition of the case.

4. A method for providing mechanisms for certifying provenance of a bottle containing an alcoholic beverage during its progress through a distribution channel, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) associating, by a packing module, a bottle tag number stored by a first radio-frequency identification tag attached to a bottle containing an alcoholic beverage with a tag identification number of a second radio-frequency identification tag attached to a case storing the bottle containing the alcoholic beverage;

(b) verifying, by a shipping module, the association between the bottle tag number and the tag identification number of the second radio-frequency identification tag;

(c) activating, by the shipping module, the second radio-frequency identification tag; and

(d) storing, by a storage element, the association between the bottle tag number and the tag identification number of the second radio-frequency identification tag.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising the step of transmitting, by the packing module, to the storage element, the association between the bottle tag number and the tag identification number of the second radio-frequency identification tag.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising the step of associating, by the packing module, the tag identification number of the second radio-frequency identification tag with the identified bottle tag number for each wine bottle in a plurality of bottles containing alcoholic beverages stored in the case.

7. The method of claim 4 further comprising the step of validating, by the packing module, the bottle tag number.

8. The method of claim 4 further comprising the step of validating, by the packing module, the tag identification number of the second radio-frequency identification tag.

9. The method of claim 4 further comprising the step of updating, by the packing module, a status identifier associated with the tag identification number of the second radio-frequency identification tag and stored by the storage element.

10. The method of claim 4 further comprising the step of updating, by the packing module, a status identifier associated with the bottle tag number and stored by the storage element.

11. The method of claim 4 further comprising the step of validating, by the shipping module, the tag identification number of the second radio-frequency identification tag.

12. The method of claim 4 further comprising the step of verifying, by the shipping module, the bottle tag number for at least one bottle containing an alcoholic beverage stored in the case.