Patent ID: 8583278

Claim:
A method for processing a plurality of objects, wherein each of the objects is provided with a respective identification, wherein a sequence is predetermined with an execution time or a number of successive execution times, and wherein at least one maximum storage period is predetermined, the method which comprises: passing all objects to be processed through a registration sorting system in a registration sorting run, and performing the following steps in the registration sorting run for each object to be processed: acquiring with the registration sorting system the identification on the object; generating an inquiry message, the inquiry message including at least one information item about the object; determining a message address in dependence on the identification on the object; transmitting the inquiry message to the message address; delivering the object from the registration sorting system into a temporary storage device; at each execution time, triggering a process sequence and subjecting all of the objects located in the temporary storage device at execution time to the following steps: taking the object from the temporary storage device; passing the object through an execution sorting system in an execution pass; identifying each object with the execution sorting system in the execution pass, the removal of which from the temporary storage device was triggered at the execution time and which passes through the execution sorting system; and wherein each execution pass for each identified object includes the following steps: checking whether or not a response message has arrived for the respective object; thereby using as the response message for the object an incoming message that refers to the object and specifies an action that is to be performed with the object; if a presence of a response message for the object is found, triggering the following steps: transporting the respective object to a workstation; and performing at the workstation the action that is specified in the response message for the object; otherwise, delivering the object with the execution sorting system and moving the object back into the temporary storage device; and if a response message that refers to an object in the temporary storage device and specifies an action to be performed with the object arrives during the storage period, taking the object from the temporary storage device; and triggering a performance of the action specified in the response message.