Event-based asset tracking, order adherence, and rewards management with NFC-enabled electronic devices

摘要

An electronic device enabled with a Near Field Communications (“NFC”) reading capability may perform event-based asset tracking and/or order adherence, and/or rewards management in conjunction with a Software Service Platform. Assets may be provided with intelligent Radio Frequency Identification (“RFID”) tags in which such is associated with trackable event and such event may be associated with a master order of one or more such events. The electronic device may be programmable such that the various functions may be provided by application programs which may be preloaded on the electronic device as one or more client applications, provided to the NFC-enabled electronic device as a “software as a service” (“SaaS”) delivery, or provided to the NFC-enabled electronic device in any other desired manner.

主权项

1. A method of operating a Software as a Service (“SaaS”) platform to furnish stakeholders with information about a plurality of trackable events, each involving one or more trackable items respectively associated with one or more RFID tags, comprising:
providing a client software application for installation to a NFC-enabled device to acquire unique data corresponding to the trackable items and the trackable events, the trackable events being evidenced by respective bump actions between the NFC-enabled device and the one or more RFID tags at specific geo-locations, the unique data corresponding to the trackable items comprising unique RFID codes from the RFID tags, other data relating to the trackable items, or both, and the unique data corresponding to the trackable events comprising date, time and geo-location data coincident with the trackable events as determined by the NFC-enabled device; establishing secure transmissions between the SaaS platform and the NFC-enabled device over a network; receiving with the SaaS platform from the NFC-enabled device over the network via the secure transmissions, the unique data corresponding to the trackable events and the unique data corresponding to the trackable items; establishing on the SaaS platform a plurality of unique data items comprising the unique data corresponding to the trackable events and the unique data corresponding to the trackable items received with the SaaS platform in the receiving step; authenticating pedigrees of the trackable items through associations of the unique items back to respective product activation dates, with the SaaS platform and from the unique data corresponding to the trackable items; preparing on the SaaS platform from the unique data items different forms of reporting content for a plurality of different groups of entities and roles by entity having different uses for the reporting content; and furnishing from the SaaS platform the different forms of reporting content respectively to the entities and roles by entity.