CPC H04L 69/08 (2013.01) [G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); G06Q 10/08 (2013.01); H04L 67/12 (2013.01)] | 2 Claims |
1. A warehouse system for communicating between a transmitting warehouse device and a receiving warehouse device, the system comprising:
a computing device that communicates with the transmitting warehouse device and the receiving warehouse device, the transmitting warehouse device transmitting an inbound message to the computing device;
the computing device receiving the inbound message, the computing device modifying the inbound message to an outbound message, wherein the outbound message is different than the inbound message, wherein the receiving warehouse device receives the outbound message;
the computing device associating the receiving warehouse device with a device ID, a device type, a data protocol, a message delimiter, a message prefix, and a message suffix;
wherein the device ID identifies the receiving warehouse device;
wherein the device type identifies a type of the receiving warehouse device;
wherein the data protocol identifies a protocol for communicating with the receiving warehouse device, wherein the outbound message is formatted according to the data protocol associated with the receiving warehouse device;
wherein a first field and a second field of the outbound message is separated by the message delimiter associated with the receiving warehouse device;
wherein the outbound message begins with the message prefix associated with the receiving warehouse device followed by the message delimiter;
wherein the outbound message terminates with the message delimiter followed by the message suffix associated with the receiving warehouse device.
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