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

Claim 14:
15. A scanning device for tracking items, the scanning device configured to:
scan a computer readable code on an item;
determine that the computer readable code cannot be read completely;
identify one or more readable portions of the computer readable code;
decode the one or more readable portions computer readable code;
predict a candidate digital identifier associated with the item based on the decoded one or more readable portions of the computer readable code;
query a server using the candidate digital identifier to identify a corresponding digital identifier from a plurality of digital identifiers stored on a memory circuit of the server;
retrieve, from the server, the digital identifier and item information associated with the digital identifier; and
display the digital identifier and the item information associated with the digital identifier.