Patent ID: 11900304
Assignee: SATO HOLDINGS KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 11:
12. A warehousing and shipping management method comprising:
acquiring first coded information contained in a recognition code attached to a target object out of a plurality of objects, a recognition code being attached to each of the plurality of objects;
communicating, by a plurality of fixed radio communication units, with object-attached radio communication tags respectively attached to each of the plurality of objects and automatically acquiring object location information of each of object-attached radio communication tags;
communicating, by the plurality of fixed radio communication units, with an operator's radio communication tag attached to an operator and automatically acquiring operator location information of the operator's radio communication tag;
specifying second coded information corresponding to an object-attached radio communication tag attached to the target object, on the basis of the object location information of the object-attached radio communication tags and the operator location information of the operator's radio communication tag when the first coded information for the target object is acquired;
when the first coded information for the target object is acquired by a scanner, associating the first coded information for the target object with the second coded information as association information; and
storing the association information in a memory,
wherein the step of associating the first coded information comprises:
(1) comparing the acquired object location information of each of the object-attached radio communication tags acquired by the plurality of fixed radio communication units and the operator location information of the operator's radio communication tag acquired by the plurality of fixed radio communication units, respectively,
(2) determining, based on a result of the comparison, an object-attached radio communication tag located nearest to a location of the operator's radio communication tag, and
(3) associating the second coded information corresponding to the nearest object-attached radio communication tag with the first coded information acquired by the scanner.