Transaction quality system and quality assurance method

• US 7,796,009 B2
• Filed: 12/11/2006
• Issued: 09/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Nishimura, Takehiko, Matsushima, Tetsuya
• Primary Examiner(s): Zimmerman; Brian A
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nguyen; Nam V
• Application Number:
  US11/636,503
• Publication Number:
  US 20070241860A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,373 Days
• Field of Search: 340/5.2, 340/568.1, 340/5.21, 340/5.9, 340/572.1, 340/5.8, 235/375, 700/225
• US Class Current: 340/5.21
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders

Abstract

A managing unit manages an identifier for identifying an authenticated container that is authenticated as a legitimate container. An inquiring unit inquires, before transferring a substance between containers, the managing unit whether both of the containers are the authenticated containers. An approving unit approves a transaction of the substance, upon acquiring a response from the inquiring unit saying that both of the containers are the authenticated containers.

Claims

1. A system for assuring quality of a transaction, the system comprising:

an inlet/outlet controller comprising a transaction-identifier generating unit that generates, when a port of a container is opened, a transaction identifier and registers the transaction identifier to a storage unit, and an identifier transmitting unit that transmits the transaction identifier to a first on-site device;

a server comprising a registration processing unit that receives the transaction identifier from the first on-site device and updates a transaction information database based on the transaction identifier;

a second on-site device comprising an identifier receiving unit that receives, from the inlet/outlet controller, a transaction identifier stored in the storage unit, a transaction-information inquiring unit that inquires of the server whether the transaction identifier received by the identifier receiving unit has been registered to the transaction information database, and a transaction-availability determining unit that receives a response indicating whether the transaction identifier received by the identifier receiving unit has been registered to the transaction information database and sends a warning when the transaction identifier received by the identifier receiving unit has not been registered.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein

at least one of the transaction-identifier generating unit, the transaction-information inquiring unit, and the transaction-availability determining unit is implemented in a security chip.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein

the server registers information on a transaction corresponding to the transaction identifier that has not been registered to the transaction information database when the transaction corresponding to the transaction identifier that has not been registered is performed after the warning is sent.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein

the inlet/outlet controller and the first on-site device are installed in a first transporting equipment and the second on-site device is installed in a second transporting equipment.

5. A method of assuring quality of a transaction, the method comprising:

an inlet/outlet controller comprising a transaction-identifier generating unit generating, when a port of a container is opened, a transaction identifier and registering the transaction identifier to a storage unit, and an identifier transmitting unit transmitting the transaction identifier to a first on-site device;

a server comprising a registration processing unit receiving the transaction identifier from the first on-site device and updating a transaction information database based on the transaction identifier;

a second on-site device comprising an identifier receiving unit, receiving from the inlet/outlet controller, a transaction identifier stored in the storage unit, a transaction-information inquiring unit inquiring of the server whether the transaction identifier received by the identifier receiving unit has been registered to the transaction information database, and a transaction-availability determining unit receiving a response indicating whether the transaction identifier received by the identifier receiving unit has been registered to the transaction information database and sending a warning when the transaction identifier received by the identifier receiving unit has not been registered.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein

at least one of the transaction-identifier generating unit, the transaction-information inquiring unit, and the transaction-availability determining unit is implemented in a security chip.

7. The method according to claim 5, further comprising

the server registering information on a transaction corresponding to the transaction identifier that has not been registered to the transaction information database when the transaction corresponding to the transaction identifier that has not been registered is performed after the warning is sent.

8. The method according to claim 5, wherein

the inlet/outlet controller and the first on-site device are installed in a first transporting equipment and the second on-site device is installed in a second transporting equipment.