Registers – Systems controlled by data bearing records
Patent
1998-01-22
2000-06-06
Le, Thien M.
Registers
Systems controlled by data bearing records
235384, 235385, 23547201, G06F 1700, G06F 1760, G07B 1502, G06K 710
Patent
active
060707933
ABSTRACT:
A method for tracking and controlling the delivery and/or pickup of goods/containers for goods comprises the steps of a) taking a mobile data terminal in a service center, the mobile data terminal having an integrated barcode scanner for reading the data required for performing tracking and control; b) reading the data which identify a driver performing the pickup or delivery, his route and transportation vehicle used for this purpose; c) storing of the data read in step b) in a storage of the mobile data terminal and displaying of the data read in step b) in a readable form; d) arriving at all customers on the round and reading of each customer's barcoded data and of the data of the goods/containers for goods to be picked-up or delivered at the customer together with the simultaneous storage of date and the time; e) storing the data (including the date and the time) read in step d) in the storage of the mobile data terminal and displaying the data read in step d) in readable form in the display of the mobile data terminal; and f) after completion of the round, transferring of the data from the storage of the mobile data terminal to the computer system in the service center. The arrangement for the above-mentioned method comprises a mobile data terminal with a display and keys for data input and for calling up certain functions stored in the mobile data terminal respectively. A barcode scanner is integrated into the mobile data terminal. All data to be collected are available in the form of a barcode: one barcode is allocated to a driver, one to a transportation vehicle, one to each customer on a round and one to each of the containers for goods which are to be delivered to customers and/or to be picked up from customers.
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Reichl Horst
Schirmbeck Peter
Tantzen Hergen M.
Eastman Kodak Company
Le Thien M.
Pincelli Frank
Sherr Daniel H.
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