AUTOMATIC PROCESSING OF AGRICULTURAL DATA

• US 20130268949A1
• Filed: 06/04/2013
• Published: 10/10/2013
• 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.
• Granted Patent: US 9,396,049 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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, the method comprising:

providing a software system stored on a computer readable medium for executing on a computing device, the software system having a kernel, at least one trigger component for monitoring events, at least one converter component, and at least one communicator component;

electronically receiving agricultural data from the computing device, wherein the agricultural data is sent from the software system using at least one communicator component.

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

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the agricultural data comprises environmental data.

4. The method of claim 2 wherein the agricultural data comprises as-applied data.

5. 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, synchronization with a mobile device, or receipt of an email.

6. An article for use on a computing device, comprising:

a computer readable medium storing a software application configured for monitoring for events associated with receipt of agricultural data through use of a service executing on the computing device, notifying a converter component executing on the computing device of the receipt of the agricultural data, processing the agricultural data by the converter component, storing the agricultural data in a data repository, and electronically distributing the agricultural data in a predetermined format by a communicator;

wherein the software application executes on the computing device.