US 11,771,059 B2
Method and system for tracking a plurality of animals with a portable computing device
Pierre-Emmanuel Deliou, Sugar Hill, GA (US)
Assigned to BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM ANIMAL HEALTH USA INC., Duluth, GA (US)
Appl. No. 16/640,834
Filed by BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM ANIMAL HEALTH USA INC., Duluth, GA (US)
PCT Filed Aug. 31, 2018, PCT No. PCT/US2018/049030
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 21, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/046685, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 7, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/552,872, filed on Aug. 31, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0367471 A1, Nov. 26, 2020
Int. Cl. A01K 11/00 (2006.01); A01K 29/00 (2006.01); G06Q 10/08 (2012.01); H04B 5/00 (2006.01); H04L 67/52 (2022.01); G06Q 10/0833 (2023.01)
CPC A01K 11/008 (2013.01) [A01K 29/005 (2013.01); G06Q 10/0833 (2013.01); H04B 5/0062 (2013.01); H04L 67/52 (2022.05)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method for tracking near-field communication (NFC)-enabled animals with a portable computing device (PCD), the computer-implemented method comprising:
providing an NFC-tag comprising memory, the memory containing a unique identifier; coupling the NFC-tag to an animal; scanning the NFC-tag with the PCD;
the PCD receiving tag information from the scan, the tag information comprising the unique identifier and a universal resource locater;
the PCD transmitting the URL over a communications network to a domain name service computer server;
the domain name service computer server transmitting over the communications network to the PCD an internet protocol address of a NFC-tag identification server assigned to the URL that was part of the tag information;
the PCD transmitting the tag info from the scan over the communications network to the NFC-tag identification server;
if the NFC-tag identification server is available, the NFC-tag identification server receives tag info and then transmits a message comprising a link to an on-line store where animal management software that may communicate with the NFC-tag may be purchased; the NFC-identification server is a first NFC-identification server,
if the first NFC-identification server is unavailable, then the first NFC-identification server transmits a redirect message over the communications network to the PCD, the redirect message causing the PCD to re-transmit the tag info to the domain name service server;
wherein the domain name service server receives the tag information and then reviews a list and identifies an internet protocol address for a second NFC-identification server assigned to the NFC-tag according to the sub-domain of the URL which is part of the tag information stored in the memory of the NFC-tag.