Patent ID: 7103886

Claim:
A system for tracking transportation of an object with an electronic tag from a first location to a second location, the system comprising: a memory for storing meta-data and associated type-data, wherein the type-data indicates length of the content-data required by the second location; an exchange computer capable of communicating with a first and second computer; the first computer associated with the first location for querying the exchange computer with meta-data associated with the object for type-data, writing the type-data to a first memory portion of the tag, and writing content-data to a second memory portion of the tag in a predefined format associated with the type-data; means for transporting the object with the tag from the first computer associated with the first location to a second computer associated with the second location; and the second computer at the second location reading the type-data from the first memory portion of the tag, querying the exchange computer with the type-data for meta-data, and reading content-data from the second memory portion of the tag in the predefined format associated with the type-data.