Patent ID: 11928648
Assignee: UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICES
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 7:
8. A method for tracking items, the method comprising:
scanning, at a scanning device, a computer readable code on an item;
determining, by a server, that the computer readable code cannot be read completely;
identify, by the server, one or more readable portions of the computer readable code;
decoding, by the server, the one or more readable portions of the computer readable code;
predicting, by the server, a candidate digital identifier associated with the item based on the decoded one or more readable portions of the computer readable code;
querying a memory circuit of the server using the candidate digital identifier to identify a digital identifier that corresponds with the candidate digital identifier; and
retrieving, from the memory circuit, the digital identifier and item information associated with the digital identifier from a memory circuit.