Patent ID: 9582778
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: G06Q

Claim:
1. An apparatus, comprising: a hand-held device including: one or more input devices to sense product identification indicia associated with or affixed to a food product that is grown or raised in an agricultural operation the agricultural operation being one in a series of agricultural operations in a chain of custody of the food product, the product identification indicia comprising at least one or more of a universal product code, lot code, or combination thereof for the food product; the hand-held device including at least one processor to: determine a machine-readable identification code from the product identification indicia; send the identification code to at least one remote server; receive, from the at least one remote server, comparative agricultural certification information that is associated with the product at a number of the series of agricultural operations in the series of agricultural operations in the chain of custody of the food product, the comparative agricultural certification information being associated with the product using the machine-readable identification code, the at least one remote server including one or more modules implemented by one or more processors, the one or more modules configured to, at least: receive second data associated with the environmental impact or compliance aspect, the second data being received from a plurality of locations in the series of agricultural operations, the second received data including a second data record from a second custodian device located at a second location in the plurality of locations in the series of agricultural operations at which the second custodian device read a second code that pairs the data type with the second location, the second data record pairing a second value that quantifies the data type with the second code that pairs the data type with the second location; generate an aggregate result for the data type based on at least the first and second data and a determination that that an aggregated set of data records that includes the first and second data records can automatically generate a report about the data type; and generate and include in the report the comparative agricultural product information using the aggregate result and at least some of the first or second data, the comparative agricultural product information including one or more of: indicate in the report whether the data type that is paired with the first and second locations by the first and second codes meets or does not meet the aggregate results for the data type; and cause a user device to receive and display the generated report about the data type, the user device being distinct from the first and second custodian devices from which the first and second data records are collectively received.