Patent ID: 8082191

Claim:
A method for managing an egg search code that, in order to provide history information of an egg in a traceability system, assigns an egg search code to the egg so as to identify the history information of the egg and manages the assigned egg search code, the method performed using an egg search code management server, the method comprising: determining, in an egg search code management server, any of unused egg search codes out of available egg search codes, related to a history identification code in order to identify the history information of each egg, as the egg search code to be assigned to the egg, assigning the determined egg search code to eggs each having identical history information; relating the egg search code assigned to the eggs to the history identification code and an egg collection date code that can identify an egg collection date; storing, by the egg search code management server, the egg search codes assigned to the eggs so as to relate the egg search codes to the history identification codes and an egg collection date code that can identify an egg collection date; in compliance with a provision request for the history information of the egg from a terminal apparatus which presents history request information in which the egg search code is attached to a lower side of the egg collection date code, searching by the egg search code management server for the history identification code which is related to the lower side of the egg search code related to the egg collection date code identified by an egg collection date related code which is related to an upper side of the egg search code and the egg search code, the provision request being performed by presenting the egg collection date related code that can identify the egg collection date code and/or the egg search code; and transmitting, by the egg search code management server, the history information identified by using the searched history identification code to the terminal apparatus through a communication network.