Patent ID: 8973814
Filing Date: 2015-03-10
Classification: B07C,G06F,G06Q,G07B

Abstract:
1. A method for delivering an article, the article having at least one optically registerable prescribed identification feature and a prescribed destination, which method comprises the steps of: producing and storing a data record for the article in a central data memory such that the data record containing, for each prescribed identification feature, a respective coding for a value which the prescribed identification feature assumes for the article; transporting and delivering the article to the prescribed destination; providing to the article, at least intermittently, an optically registerable delivery identifier at the prescribed destination; producing, via a portable image recorder, at least one computer-accessible depiction of the article such that the at least one computer-accessible depiction shows the optically registerable delivery identifier; evaluating the at least one computer-accessible depiction to ascertain, for each prescribed identification feature what the value is assumed by the prescribed identification feature for the article resulting in at least one ascertained identification feature value; using the at least one ascertained identification feature value to ascertain the data record produced for the article in the central data memory; augmenting the data record ascertained by a computer-accessible identifier indicating that the article has been delivered; and producing the computer-accessible identifier by using the at least one computer-accessible depiction with the optically registerable delivery identifier.