Patent ID: 11861547
Assignee: LP MEDICAL LLC
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 15:
16. A delivery management method executed by a delivery management system including a delivery unit for delivering a container in which an accommodated article is cooled by a refrigerant, and an article management server that communicates with the delivery unit during transport via a communication network, wherein
the delivery unit performs
a GPS reception step of receiving each GPS signal from a plurality of GPS satellites to calculate location data based on each of the GPS signals, adding a unique device code to the location data, and transmitting the location data to the article management server,
a first memory step of memorizing temperature data measured by the temperature measurement step in a time series,
a temperature measurement step of measuring a temperature in the container, and
a first transmission step of adding a unit number of the delivery unit to temperature data acquired at a memory unit and transmitting the temperature data regularly and/or irregularly to the article management server via the communication network, and
the article management server performs
a second memory step of memorizing the location data and the device code received at the GPS reception step in association with each other,
a third memory step of memorizing the temperature data received from the delivery unit regularly and/or irregularly associated with the unit number respectively,
a fourth memory step of memorizing the unit number and a serial number of the article in association with each other, and
a transport-status-data generation step of generating transport status data representing a serial number, location data, and temperature data of the article during transport, based on location data acquired at the second memory step corresponding to the device code, temperature data acquired at the third memory step corresponding to the unit number, and serial number acquired at the fourth memory step corresponding to the unit number, by using a set of a certain unit number and a device code as a key.