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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2006
Frederick W. Rowe, Raleigh, NC (US);
John K. Senegal, Durham, NC (US);
Frederick W. Rowe, Raleigh, NC (US);
John K. Senegal, Durham, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention includes a method for managing serialization of ELECTRONIC PRODUCT CODES (EPCs). The method can include a step of identifying a software system for managing Tag Data Specification (TDS) compliant EPCs. The software system can include a database containing two or more related tables. A tuple can be included for each unique nonserialized portion of an EPC ID URN. The database can utilize the nonserialized portion to manage a serialized portion of the EPC. In one embodiment, the database can use the nonserialized portion of an EPC to automatically generate the serialized portion of the EPC. Different sets of sequentially increasing (or sequentially decreasing) serial numbers (that are assigned to the associated unique nonserialized portions of the EPCs) can be associated with different nonserialized values.