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 |
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.
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