Patent ID: 7739147

Claim:
A computer-implemented method comprising: reading a plurality of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags that are in proximity to an RFID reader while the RFID tags, affixed to a plurality of objects, are being unloaded, wherein a plurality of the RFID tags are pallet-level RFID tags and a plurality of the RFID tags are item-level RFID tags; marking as received each record in a manifest that corresponds to each of the read RFID tags, wherein a plurality of the marked records are item-level records and wherein at least one of the marked records is a pallet-level record; identifying an unmarked pallet-level record in the manifest, wherein the unmarked pallet-level record was not marked as received; tallying a count of a number of item-level records marked as received that correspond to the unmarked pallet-level record; identifying a vendor and a type of good corresponding to the unmarked pallet-level record; retrieving a vendor rating based upon the identified vendor; retrieving a type of goods error rating based upon the identified type of good; computing a threshold based upon the vendor rating and the type of goods error rating; comparing the tallied count to the computed threshold; and in response to the comparison revealing that the tallied count of the number of item-level records marked as received is equal to or greater than the computed threshold, marking the unmarked pallet-level record as received and marking the unmarked item-level records that correspond to the pallet-level record as likely received, and in response to the tallied count being less than the computed threshold, performing shipment error processing for the pallet corresponding to the unmarked pallet-level record.