US 12,217,209 B2
Article tracking system and method
Adrien Sanglier, Geneva (CH); and Andrew Eric Malinofsky, Atlanta, GA (US)
Assigned to SITA Information Networking Computing USA, Inc., Atlanta, GA (US)
Appl. No. 16/955,631
Filed by Sita Information Networking Computing USA, Inc., Atlanta, GA (US)
PCT Filed Dec. 18, 2018, PCT No. PCT/IB2018/060284
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 18, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/123274, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 27, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/609,385, filed on Dec. 22, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0387861 A1, Dec. 10, 2020
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/0833 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 10/0833 (2013.01) 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An article tracking system using a mobile device comprising:
an article identifier for providing electronically readable article information associated with an article to one or more external legacy systems configured to access messages in a teletype format, the article information including a unique article identity and configured to be scanned by the mobile device;
a location identifier for providing location information related to a current location of the article to the one or more external legacy systems;
a mobile application stored on the mobile device, the mobile application configured to:
a. receive GPS coordinates from a GPS module of the mobile device by scanning the location identifier with the mobile device;
b. in response to receiving the GPS coordinates, generate an API payload comprising the article information and the GPS coordinates, wherein the API payload comprises a lightweight baggage information message in a format unsupported by the one or more external legacy systems;
c. apply a timestamp to the API payload; and
d. transmit the timestamped API payload via a transmitter of the mobile device;
a tracking database configured to receive and store a plurality of timestamped API payloads, thereby to record multiple locations of the article over time; and
a cloud platform configured to transform the API payload into a teletype baggage processed message format compatible with the one or more external legacy systems to access the GPS coordinates.