Common point authoring system for tracking and authenticating objects in a distribution chain

摘要

A common point authoring system functions to provide livestock informational objects via the use of a centralized repository of uniquely identified immutable livestock informational objects. The common point authoring system for maintaining data for use by authoring and accessing members to track uniquely identified products comprises: means for enabling an authorized authoring member to create data comprising a draft informational object, which uniquely identifies a product for tracking purposes; means for authenticating the draft informational object created by the authorized authoring member; means for converting the authenticated informational object created by the authorized authoring member to a corresponding immutable informational object which is identified by a unique identifier; means for writing the created immutable informational object into a memory for use by authorized accessing members and means for updating an informational object by creating a new informational object relating back to the informational object and containing new data.