MXPA06004007A - Common point authoring system for tracking and authenticating objects in a distribution chain - Google Patents

Abstract

The Common Point Authoring system functions to provide Livestock Informational Objects via the use of a centralized repository of uniquely identified, immutable Livestock Informational Objects. This system automates the authoring, maintenance and distribution of the Livestock Informational Objects by using an Internet-based paradigm and a centralized repository of uniquely-identified, immutable Data Elements. The Common Point Authoring system provides a set of software modules that the manufacturers can use to author, maintain and distribute Livestock Informational Objects and their customers, as Members of the system of Livestock Informational Objects, can use to retrieve, maintain and distribute the Livestock Informational Objects. The system's interconnectivity allows for the use of an Internet-based paradigm for the purchase and sale among Members of the system of Livestock Informational Objects as commodities, and for reducing the burden costs among Members of compliance with government regulations.

Description

COMMON POINT AUTHORITY SYSTEM TO TRACE AND AUTHENTICATE OBJECTS IN A DISTRIBUTION CHAIN FIELD OF THE INVENTION This invention is an automated system known as the Common Point Authoring System that facilitates immutable authorship, unique identification, authentication, tracking, ownership and control, advertising, sale and / or acquisition of Informational Objects that are property of an author within and along a supply, distribution and consumption, commercial, owned chain segmented as part of a product creation, product manufacturing, product distribution, and / or product consumption process.

PROBLEM In general A problem in the field of product creation, product distribution and / or product consumption is to maintain the immutable authorship, maintain and distribute intangible Informative Objects that identify a particular physical product or a processed product as it progresses to through a commercial supply chain, distribution and consumption of segmented property. The problem is further exemplified by the need of each Owner who obtains possession of a physical product or product processed in the chain for Informative Objects of the author that can be used to identify, characterize and authenticate the product. An additional problem is to authenticate the Informative Objects that contain the immutable data, and to update the Informative Object to provide the data that is related to the history of the physical or processed product within the supply chain, distribution and commercial consumption of segmented property. An additional problem is to use the Informational Objects to track a physical or processed product to which the Informative Object refers both upwards and downwards in a chain of supply, distribution and commercial consumption of segmented property. An additional problem for the Owner of a physical or processed product that will be empowered with sufficient possession, authority and control over an Information Object with authorship to allow the Informative Object to become its own distinctive article and separate from the article of the physical product or processed to which the Informative Object refers. An additional problem is to provide a worldwide accessible market for the commercial activity with which the Informative Objects of authorship that refer to a physical or processed product, offered, acquired and sold among the Owners and Consumers of the physical or processed products, can be announced. . An example of the need for Informational Objects is the chain of supply, distribution and commercial consumption of segmented property of the livestock industry for the production of meat. Information Objects authenticated in this industry are needed to track animals and their genetic selection and birth products for consumption in accordance with appropriate government regulations and / or for commercial reasons. In order to describe the present Common Point Authoring System, the supply, distribution and commercial consumption chain of the livestock industry for meat production is therefore used as a practical example illustrating the capabilities and operation of the present system. Common Point Authoring.

Livestock Industry for Meat Production Historically, the livestock industry for meat production has operated under a segmented ownership structure that is based on separate production and distribution sectors. While the production segments can be superimposed within a trading company, the supply of livestock industry for meat production and distribution segments (Cattle Breeder, Cattle Producer, Cattle Processor, Distributor, Retail) have traditionally been independent of each other, which is the result of specific production practices, quite specialized and economic competitiveness. The independence and segmented ownership of each segment has and causes antagonisms within the industrial livestock supply for meat production and the distribution chain. Each independent segment tends only to perform the minimum management practices and techniques necessary for that segment because often the Owners within each segment feel that there is no economic benefit in doing otherwise. In addition, information is rarely passed up or down the supply and distribution chain by one Owner within one segment to an Owner in another segment for fear of placing one Owner at a competitive economic disadvantage with another. The result of the segmented and antagonistic supply and distribution chain of the livestock industry for the production of meat is a product of variable quality that often fails in the main goal of the livestock industry for the production of meat, which is to provide a quality product with profit. As a result, the supply and distribution chain of the livestock industry for meat production has traditionally produced and distributed meat as a generic product to consumers lacking information on the source of the product or the processes and means used to produce it, process and distribute the product. Changes in the beef cattle industry have focused on the goal of producing quality meat. However, the technology has not been available to dispel the economic antagonisms between different Owners and Consumers throughout the supply, distribution and consumption chain. While consumers have indicated that they want a product of safe, convenient and consistent quality, the ability of Consumers to get a response message from Cattle Breeders, Cattle Producers, Cattle Processors, Distributors and Retailers is voided by the inefficiencies in the flow of information that continue within the supply, distribution and consumption chain of the livestock industry for meat production. The effect of inefficiencies in the flow of information between segments of the supply chain, distribution and consumption of the industry for the production of meat has been observed by the United States Department of Agriculture that has found that an epidemiologist who performs a historical research on sick cattle, currently requires anywhere from two days to twelve weeks, and even then the chances of successful research are far from certain. While the identification and tracking of animals does not ensure the health of an animal or prevent the introduction of diseases in animals, the ability to quickly track animals can mitigate the effects of virulent diseases by accelerating the response time. The National Institute for Animal Agriculture (NIAA) organized the National Food Animal Identification Tas Force in April 2002 to develop a national plan to protect animals from birth until they are useful for the intended purpose. According to this task force, maintaining the health of the herds of the United States is the most urgent problem and therefore, it is the most significant approach of the National Identification Work Plan. The long-term goal is to establish an animal identification and information system that have the ability to identify all locations that had direct contact with a foreign animal disease within 48 hours after discovery. The key elements include a system of uniform identification of premises and a numbering system for individual animals, uniform, that can be recognized nationally. These objectives have continued in the United States Animal Identification Plan successor issued in September 2003. A challenge to the success of the plan is the wide distribution of a national system for the identification of livestock, and the use of a decisive volume of Cattle Breeders, Cattle Producers, and Cattle Processors. Although there are several vertically integrated or vertically integrated systems in existence for identification, management and data tracking capability, a problem in the supply chain, distribution, and consumption of the livestock industry for meat production, is that there is no "umbrella" system accessible worldwide to any Owner of an animal or its distributed products, or any Consumer of a distributed product, who uniquely identifies and authenticates the objects with data, which refers only to the identified animals and their products, in the hands of these Owners or Consumers. An additional problem is that no umbrella system exists to provide effective interconnection between these Owners and Consumers as the animals are transferred from Owner to Owner, from birth until they are useful for the intended purpose, and then distributed to the Consumer. A problem within the distribution and consumption industry for meat supply is that there is no globally accessible system to provide standards of compatibility and information flow between existing systems and a means to reliably capture the identity and movement history of animals. . In addition, the lack of information flow can not be solved without a technology that addresses the problem of data ownership and control over Informational Objects. Ownership and control over Informational Objects are crucial within the supply, distribution and consumption chain of the livestock industry for the production of meat. For example, even with an approach within the United States Plan for the identification of Animals, described above, in the best available means to standardize the source information and centralize its collection, without solving the problem of ownership and control of data as a Incentive against low or absent effort, the result of the United States Plan for the Identification of Animals may still be distorted, lost or unusable data. Currently, there is no centralized system, accessible worldwide, in which the owners of animals or animal products, or consumers of animal products, can uniquely identify and authenticate, track, acquire and control, advertise, sell and / or buy objects. Informative that have the reference to animals and their products within the supply chain, distribution and consumption of the livestock industry for the production of meat. In this way, there is a need to provide a system accessible worldwide to the Owners and Consumers found within the supply, distribution and consumption chain of the livestock industry for the production of meat as a market in which the immutable data, identified individually, on the animals and their animal products, they can be of authorship as an Informative Object, and these objects can be announced, sold, acquired and exchanged as a new, different item, separately from the physical article for which a reference is made only. The livestock industry for meat production is illustrative of the nature of this problem and is used as an example in order to illustrate the operation of the current Common Point Authoring System, although it is not intended to limit the scope of the described system. The Common Point Authoring System can have application in any industry where the information that has reference to a physical or processed product has the need to have authorship, be uniquely identified, authenticated, tracked, controlled by an Owner, announced, sold and / or acquired in accordance with government regulations and / or for commercial reasons.

Solution The problems described above are solved and a technical advance is achieved through this Common Point Authoring System for the supply chain, distribution and consumption of livestock for meat production. The Common Point Authoring System provides the functions of immutable authorship, maintaining and distributing intangible Information Objects of Cattle along the segmented chain of property for an animal and its distributed products, with which the Informative Objects of Cattle with authorship by each Owner of the animal or the distributed animal product, or each Consumer of the distributed animal products, can be used to uniquely identify and authenticate an animal or uniquely identify an animal product for which the Informational Object has reference. The Common Point Authoring System also provides the functions to authenticate the Livestock Informational Objects that contain the immutable data, and the functions to update the Informative Object to provide the data that relate to the history of the animals or animal products within the supply, distribution and commercial consumption chain of segmented property. The Common Point Authoring System also provides the functions to employ Livestock Informational Objects to track a uniquely identified animal or distributed animal product for which the Livestock Informational Object has the reference both upwards and downwards of the supply chain, distribution and consumption of livestock for the production of meat of segmented property. The Common Point Authoring System also provides the functions of the Owner of an animal that will be empowered with sufficient ownership, authority and control over a Livestock Information Object with authorship to allow the Informative Object to become its own distinct article separately from the article of the animal or animal product for which the Livestock Information Object has reference. The Common Point Authoring System also provides a worldwide accessible market for the commercial activity with which the Livestock Informational Objects with the reference to an animal or animal product can be advertised, offered, acquired and sold among the Owners and Consumers of the animal or the animal product. In addition, the problems described above are solved and a technical advance is reached through the present Common Point Authoring system that works to provide the Livestock Informational Objects via the use of a centralized warehouse of uniquely identified, unchangeable Livestock Informational Objects. They include data that relate to the identification of animals, identification of the premises, and a history of the movement of animals within this chain of commerce. This system automates the authorship, maintenance and distribution of Livestock Informational Objects using an Internet-based paradigm and a centralized warehouse of immutable Data Elements uniquely identified. The Common Point Authoring System provides a set of software subsystems that breeders, producers, collectors, processors, distributors and retailers of animals can use to author, maintain and distribute the Livestock Informational Objects that their clients, as Subscribers to the Common Point Authoring System, they can use to recover, maintain and distribute the Informative Objects of the Cattle. The interconnectivity of the system allows the use of an Internet-based paradigm for the purchase and sale of data as articles. The interconnectivity also allows the data collected, in the form of Informative Objects of the Cattle, among the Subscribers of the Common Point Authoring System, to reduce the load costs among the Subscribers in accordance with the governmental dispositions. further, the Common Point Authoring System can provide ancillary services by providing advertising for services and products to facilitate interconnection among Subscribers such as, for example, Cattle Breeders, Cattle Producers, Cattle Processors, Distributors, Retailers and Consumers . In addition, the Common Point Authoring System may allow third party vendors to provide services and products related to the information and instructions contained in the Livestock Informational Objects to advertise potential customers. The Common Point Authoring System uses an object-based structure for communication of Livestock Informational Objects and other Informational Objects among livestock producers, livestock producers' clients, final consumers of animal products, and third-party vendors. Livestock Informational Objects are not document files or database files, instead they are objects that contain sequences of instructions and information on which the instructions operate. A particular Livestock Information Object contains indicators that identify a plurality of information "incorporation blocks" that, when collected, comprise the Livestock Informational Object. Each incorporation block consists of a Data Element and a unique identifier that uniquely identifies that Data Element. From the moment that the Data Elements are fixed, they do not require updating or a new version of a Livestock Informative Object for a particular animal that simply includes a unique identifier that is directed to a replacement Data Element, while that the original Data Element is maintained in the central database. In this way, for each location, the contents of the Livestock Information Object remain unchanged, although the format may vary. In addition, the creation of a new Livestock Information Object can use the existing Data Elements of the central database if the content of the associated portion of the Livestock Information Object is identical to this Data Element. In this way, newly-created Livestock Information Objects can benefit from a standardized Data Element store, only with the unique segments of the new Livestock Information Object that requires the creation of a new Data Element. Translations of the Data Elements into other languages are also simplified because the Common Point Authoring system authorizes the use of standardized phrases and other associated data in the creation of the various Data Elements. In addition, the Data Elements can be exported to another database system. The Common Point Authoring System is also an integrated identification system that, through the established standards and the defined Data Elements, allows the compatibility of the systems while providing the efficient availability of information through each segment of the system. industry for the breeding of animals. The source and the identification components, including the animal and the identification of the premises provided by the United States Plan for the Identification of Animals, described above, can be used to support the tracking and management of animal diseases, as well as provide the production management information within the production management environment. While the basic animal health component seems to be different from the production and marketing component, the exchange of data between these two components provides a synergy that benefits both segments in terms of cost reduction and improved product quality. resulting The Common Point Authoring System can support several granularities at the level of object identification. The granularity of the identification required can be a function of the product and the management of its movement through the commercial chain. Thus, in some cases each individual animal must be tracked and in other cases, where a collection of animals is born in the same premises, move through the production chain until they are useful for the purpose intended as a group, can be used a group identification to identify all the animals in the uninterrupted collection. In addition to tracking animals from birth until they are ready for the intended purpose, an extension of this process is to track the products that are created as a result of the harvest. This reflects the need to provide food safety for Consumers and requires that the animal tracking paradigm be extended to also be applicable to manufactured components of animals as they are processed individually into different final products and distributed to Consumers, often in different commercial chains. The Common Point Authoring System anticipates systems for identifying cost-effective, efficient, and detailed products, for example the identification of DNA or genetics and the tracking of the manufactured components or products of the animal from the collection of the animal and the creation of these products for consumption. As the Livestock Information Objects are authored, maintained and distributed, the pertinent data related to these processes and the entities that participate in these processes can be used to carry out the advertising to the participants. The ability exists with the Common Point Authoring System for a Subscriber to allow advertisers to use or access the information within the Livestock Informational Objects owned or controlled by this Subscriber. When allowed by a Subscriber within the Information Object with the member's ID, the authorship, maintenance or distribution of a Livestock Information Object can be used as an opportunity for authorized advertisers to identify the products and services that are relevant to the animal identified in the Livestock Informative Object as regards access to real-time advertising, sensitive to the context for Subscribers who have access to Livestock Informative Objects.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Figures 1A-1B illustrate, in block diagram form, the overall architecture of the present Common Point Authoring System and an environment in which it is functional; Figure 2 illustrates a typical Informative Object and its content may be authored, distributed and maintained by the Present Common Point Authoring System; Figure 3 illustrates, in the form of a flow chart, the operation of the Subscriber registration process of the present Common Point Authoring System; Figure 4 illustrates in flowchart form the operation of the process for the creation of the Data Element of the present Common Point Authoring System; Figure 5 illustrates in flowchart form the operation of the process for the creation of the Informative Object of the present Common Point Authoring System; Figure 6 illustrates in flowchart form the operation of the registration process of the Informative Object of the present Common Point Authoring System; Figure 7 illustrates in flow chart form the operation of the process for defining the Data Element Permissions of this Common Point Authoring System; Figure 8 illustrates in flowchart form the operation of the process for the definition of Access Permissions to the Informative Object of the present Common Point Authoring System; Figure 9 illustrates in flowchart form the operation of the Subscriber access process of the present Common Point Authoring System; Figure 10 illustrates in flow chart form the operation of the advertising authoring process of the present Common Point Authoring System; Figure 11 illustrates in flowchart form the operation of the process for registration of advertising of the present Common Point Authoring System; Figure 12 illustrates in flowchart form the operation of the process for registration of advertising access of the present Common Point Authoring System; Figures 13 and 14 illustrate in flowchart form the operation of the registered advertising recovery process of the present Common Point Authoring System; Figure 15 illustrates in flowchart form the operation of the process for the creation of the Informative Object with the ID of the member of the present Common Point Authoring System; Figure 16 illustrates in flowchart form the operation of the process for the creation and updating of the Informative Object with the ID of the member of the present Common Point Authoring System; Figures 17 and 18 illustrate in flowchart form the restoration of Permits and the offending processes of the Permissions of this Common Point Authoring System; and Figure 19 illustrates in block diagram form the typical segments of the supply, distribution and consumption chain for the creation of products of the cattle industry for the production of meat, and the flow of Informative Objects of Cattle in relation to these typical segments and the Common Point Authoring System.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present Common Point Authoring System 10 works to allow Subscribers to grant immutable authorship, uniquely identify, authenticate, track, appropriate and control, advertise, sell and / or purchase Informational Objects that describe an animal or its products. within the livestock supply, distribution and consumption chain for meat production,. To carry out the authentication task, the Informative Object must contain the immutable data, even the Informative Object must also be able to be updated with the data that relate to the movement history of the animal or its products within the chain of supply, distribution and consumption of the livestock industry for meat production 19. There are many examples of products and manufacturing processes and / or production associated with which this system can be applied. To illustrate the concepts of this Common Point Authoring System, the supply chain consisting of the livestock industry and the food distribution network is used as an example. In the environment of the livestock supply, distribution and consumption chain for meat production, the Common Point Authoring System works to provide Livestock Informational Objects via the use of a centralized warehouse of immutable Livestock Informational Objects identified in a manner only. This system automates the authorship, maintenance and distribution of Livestock Informational Objects using a paradigm based on the network and a centralized warehouse of immutable data elements uniquely identified. The Common Point Authoring system can be provided with a set of software components or subsystems that the producer and the processor gained can use to supply authorship, maintain and distribute Livestock Information Objects that their clients, as well as the Subscribers to the System of Authorship Common Point can be used to retrieve, maintain and distribute the Livestock Informational Objects. The interconnectivity of the system allows the use of an Internet-based paradigm for the advertising, purchase and sale of Livestock Informational Objects among the Subscribers of the Common Point Authoring System as the items are separated and distinguished from animals or animal products. which refer, and to reduce the costs of charging among Subscribers in accordance with government regulations. In addition, the Common Point Authoring System can provide ancillary services by providing advertising for services and products that facilitate the interconnection of producers and producers' customers with the other Common Point Authoring System Subscribers who are sellers, and who provide services and products related to the information and instructions contained in the Livestock Informative Objects.

Definitions For the purposes of this description, the following terms are defined: Subscriber comprises an entity, whether a business or an individual, who is authorized to access and use the capabilities of this Common Point Authoring System. A Subscriber may be a Cattle Breeder, Cattle Producer, Cattle Processor, Distributor, Retail, Consumer or any entity that owns or consumes an animal or its products within the supply, distribution and consumption chain of the livestock industry for the production of meat . A Subscriber may also be a third-party vendor that advertises to provide services and products related to the information and instructions contained in the Livestock Informational Objects. Member is synonymous with Subscriber. Livestock Breeder comprises an entity, be it a business or an individual that typically provides genetic or animal materials for breeding and manages it through the birth process. Cattle producer comprises an entity, be it a business or an individual, that typically breeds, feeds, stores animals, such as, for example, a stock operator, importer or food operator. Cattle processor comprises an entity, be it a business or an individual, such as, for example, a packer, who typically collects manufactured products from an animal, or a pharmaceutical company, which provides an operator, pet food companies, who typically processes products made from an animal. Distributor comprises an entity, be it a business or an individual, that typically sells animal products, or processes animal products, to retailers at wholesale prices.

Retail comprises an entity, be it a business or an individual, that typically sells animal products or processes animal products, for Consumers at retail prices. Consumer comprises an entity, whether a business or an individual, that typically buys an animal product or processes the animal product, from a Retail. Terminal device comprises a personal computer, a portable computing device, a cellular communication device, a wireless computing device, or another device for interconnection of data. Typically, the terminal device used is a full-function communications device of the type that includes: cell phones, personal digital assistants, personal computers, and the like, or some other specialized communications device. A Data Element is the smallest unit of data in the Common Point Authoring System. A Data Element can be any information and / or any instruction. A Data Element is immutable and is uniquely identified if it is registered for use with the Common Point Authoring System. A Data Element Set consists of two or more Data Elements. A Data Element Set is immutable and is uniquely identified if it is registered for use with the Common Point Authoring System. A Registered Data Element Set may consist of one or more Unregistered Data Elements, one or more more Registered Data Elements, or a mixture of both registered and unregistered Data Elements. An Information Object consists of one or more Data Elements, Data Element Sets, or Informational Objects, or any combination thereof. An Informative Object is immutable and is uniquely identified if it is registered for use with the Common Point Authoring System. An Informative Object is the largest group of data in the Common Point Authoring System and may be a specific industry. A Registered Informative Object can be composed of one or more Registered Informative Objects, Unregistered Informative Objects, Unregistered Data Elements, Unregistered Data Element Sets, Registered Data Elements, Registered Data Element Sets, or any combination of the same. Permissions are attributes associated with either Data Elements or Informational Objects that control access by Members. Permits can have either positive or negative effects.

Permits can be (1) exclusive or non-exclusive, (2) conditional or permanent, and / or (3) limited or without limitation, or any combination thereof. After the registration of an Object Informational, a Member that has permission to access an object may grant, cancel or modify the Permissions for the Informative Object or a Data Element if the action taken does not exceed the authority of the Member and does not violate the granting of an Previous permission. Owner in the context of the supply, distribution and consumption chain of the livestock industry for the production of meat of Figure 19 means a Cattle Breeder, Cattle Producer, Cattle Processor, Distributor, Retail, and / or Consumer which typically possesses or genetic material applied to the conception of animals, or typically possesses conceived animals, animal products, or processed animal products. Owner in the context of a Registered Informative Object means a Subscriber that establishes the Permissions for an Informative Object or Data Element. The set of Permissions for an Informative Object and / or the Data Element must have an Owner and / or one or more other Members that cumulatively control all the possible Permissions that can be granted, canceled or modified, respectively, for the respective Informative Object or the Data Element. Livestock Information Object is an Informative Object that can contain the information and / or pertinent instructions for the genetic pre-conception information of one or more animals, for the history of one or more animals, for the history of its animal products, and / o for the history of consumption of their animal products.

Attention issues The major issues of attention within the supply, distribution and consumption chain of the livestock industry for meat production by the Common Point Authoring System are complex but interrelated. The issues of attention are: food safety, animal identification, veterinary health, information flow, and meat quality. The solution is the development of the Common Point Authoring System as a system for globally accessible information technology in which the owner of the data gives technological authority to the Owners or Consumers of the livestock or their products.

Veterinary Health and Animal Identification The introduction of foreign animals into a herd or the incursion of a disease into a closed herd requires rapid detection and response to prevent the spread of contamination of the resident population. Random screening of animals to determine the presence or absence of a disease is a costly and error-ridden process. The ability to obtain accurate data in real time could allow the processing of bio-statistics to reach scientifically based conclusions from which decisions can be made about the management of the herd. The ability to quickly detect and track off strange diseases or that are appearing across international borders would allow producers to protect themselves against the spread of the disease and lessen the negative economic impacts on the production and marketing of the animals. In order to have an effective system, each animal must be uniquely identified, its current location and, preferably, its history of movement within the tracked production process must be identified. The ability to identify all locations that have had contact with an infected animal and the other co-resident animals at the time of contact is required for the timely historical tracking of animals. The identification of all contacts and the supervision of sub-groups within the population that has been in contact with an infected animal are the decisive factors in the ability to detect the presence of a disease and control its -dissemination. This requires recording the movement of individual animals or animal units in a central database or seamlessly linked to allow access to a virtual database. To achieve this, a standard method must be established and implemented for the identification of animals and premises by producers throughout the process of production, collection and creation of the product. The United States Plan for the Identification of Animals addresses the standardization of this source information. The issue of location includes the ability to record the origin of an animal, and movement to other locations throughout its life. This includes the coordination of location data on a temporary basis to determine the contacts that a specific animal had with other animals in each location, including other production units, means of transportation, markets, exhibits, and public auctions. Each site is unique if it is geographically and / or epidemiologically distinct from other sites. Each site will also be tracked for an authorized user who operates the installation located on the site.

Food Safety and Animal Identification The location in which an animal is collected and the distribution of all tracked collected products must be recorded. In this way, the unique identification of the animal observed above extends in a one-to-many paradigm where the uniquely identified animal is manufactured in a plurality of uniquely identified products, each of which can be traced back to the identified animal of unique way and its history. Also, the identification of the plurality of uniquely identified products facilitates the retro-tracking of a processed mixture of products manufactured from many different animals to a single uniquely identified animal. The process mentioned above extends into the process for the production of food, where the animals are processed and the resulting animal products are distributed. The ability to track animals and other agricultural items from birth to the manufactured product could protect the Consumer from an impure, unsafe and fraudulently labeled food.

Meat Information and Quality Flow As noted above, the source information, on which the standardization efforts of the United States Plan for Animal Identification are focused, and the larger universe of process information for the Animal products, ensures the ability to trace animals and can add value to animal products through a differentiation of products that is related to the source, health, genetics and other distinguishing characteristics of animals and their animal products. The software systems for identification of livestock that are currently available provide the inventory of identification information that is difficult and expensive to pass up and down the commercial chain because the Owner segmented the nature of the livestock industry for the production of meat. Common examples of this fragmentation are the incompatibility of software products and the initial costs of the available software systems. The result is that the choices that a Consumer makes when purchasing a product from an animal, and the reasons for these choices, can not be communicated to the supply, distribution and consumption chain of the Cattle Breeder, Cattle Producer, and Cattle Processor. Won. Without this information, the Cattle Breeder, Cattle Producer, and Cattle Processor can not adjust their management processes to provide a higher quality product. Likewise, the Cattle Breeder, Cattle Producer, and Cattle Processor are unable to pass along the information that exists about their animals to the Consumer because there are no effective means to accomplish this. The livestock industry for meat production as a whole can not improve its product because it can not effectively move information up and down the supply chain, distribution and consumption 19.

Centralization and Data Ownership The need to increase the flow of information between the segments of the industry, and improve the quality of meat, in the livestock industry for the production of meat is not fulfilled due to the absence of an "umbrella" information accessible worldwide that facilitates immutable authorship, unique identification, authentication, tracking, ownership and control, advertising, sale and / or acquisition of Informational Objects with authorship in and throughout the supply chain, distribution and consumption of the livestock for meat production 19. The technological possession of the Owner of the Data in the Owners of livestock by an umbrella information technology system is completely essential to satisfy the industrial needs due solely to the promise that the control of the property of data can attract a decisive volume utilization towards a globally accessible system. Only through the introduction of a globally accessible umbrella system, and the introduction of a Cattle Informational Object as a center of new gains for Cattle Owners, can one face virtually the problems of food safety, animal identification, health veterinary, information flow, and meat quality.

Product flow Figure 19 illustrates in block diagram form a typical production environment and product flow within that environment in relation to the Present Common Point Authoring System. In this environment, the Common Point Authoring System 10 tracks each animal in a production chain from birth until it is useful for the intended purpose and can also be used to track the products collected at through the supply to the Consumer. Figure 19 is only illustrative of a representation of this supply chain, distribution and consumption. For example, Figure 19 could be reconfigured into a plurality of the following segments for data collection and collection purposes: 1. Products for genetic pre-conception associated with animal husbandry, 2. Sources and locations of animals from the birth until they are useful for the intended purpose, 3. Processes associated with the growth of animals from birth until they are ready for the intended purpose, 4. Animal products collected, 5. Processing of animal products, 6. Distribution and supply of animal products to Consumers 7. Consumption by Consumers of animal products and opinions related to them.

In each phase there are several Data Elements that can be collected and these can be Mandatory Data Elements or Discretionary Data Elements, all are related to the animal and for the purposes for which the data will be used in the Point Authoring system Common 10. Because animals and animal products are affected by the passage of time, the process for data collection is based temporarily on the movement of the animal or animal products that will be tracked over time through each location. The operation of the Common Point Authoring system 10 is therefore hierarchical by nature, with each change of ownership and / or location of the animal that requires an update of the data stored in the Common Point Authoring system 10. As a practical problem to simplify the implementation of the Common Point Authoring system 10, the identification of animals may require the incorporation of a device to the animal that is human readable and / or electronically readable, such as, for example, by radiofrequency technology.

Terminal Equipment and Communications Environment Figures 1A and IB illustrate in block diagram form the overall architecture of the Common Point Authoring system 10 and a typical environment in which it is functional. Subscribers are typically equipped with one or more of a personal computer Ti, T2, a portable device or other T5 device, a T3 cellular communication device, a T4 wireless computer device, or another device for data intercommunication, so-called collectively in the present as "terminal equipment". The data communication connection between the equipment of the TI Subscriber terminal and the present Common Point Authoring system 10 can be made via the Internet 103, using the well-known personal computer modem and the technology for Internet browsing available on the Internet. the equipment of the Ti Subscriber terminal. The terminal equipment of the Subscriber in general served by the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) consisting of a plurality of Systems of Local Exchange 101, 102 interconnected via a Exchange Carrier Network 100. The physical connection supporting this connection for data communication is typically carried out from the TI Subscriber terminal equipment through the Local Exchange System 102 of the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) via a means for data communication (such as, for example, the Internet), referred to as IP Network 103 herein, as an Internet Service Provider 112 that also connects to it. The Internet 103 also connects to a Local Exchange System 101 via an Internet Service Provider 111 that serves Firewall 122 of the Common Point Authoring System 10. Alternatively, the Subscriber terminal equipment, in the case of a T3 cellular communication device, or a T4 wireless computer device, is connected via the Mobile Telecommunications Commutation Office (MTSO) 104 to the Public Communicated Telephone Network ( PSTN). The Common Point Authoring system 10 is connected to at least one means for data communication 103 (such as, for example, the Internet) to enable Subscribers to obtain connections for data communication with the Common Point Authoring system. 10, as will be described in more detail below. The typical architecture of the Common Point Authoring system 10 includes a firewall 122 which serves to protect the system from unauthorized access, as is well known in the art. An intranet 115 serves to connect the firewall 122 to the other elements of the system, such as, for example, the communications server 113 which implements the communication objects layer of the Common Point Authoring system 10 by executing the applications of the object layer of communications. These applications manage communications with the Subscribers accessing the Common Point Authoring system 10. In addition, the intranet 115 connects to the Application Server 121, which executes the Web server software to provide the Subscriber interface to use the data access that is stored in the Common Point Authoring system 10. In addition, the Application Server 121 executes the server scripts that are part of the application layer to manage Subscriber access. The server of the relational database 114 also connects to the intranet 115 and intercommunicates the plurality of data storage elements of the database layer in which the data is stored. The nature of the stored data will be described later. This architecture serves to distribute the functionality among a plurality of servers although it is envisaged that the architecture implementations of the alternative system may equally apply to the concepts shown herein. The Common Point Authoring system 10 includes a plurality of databases, as will be described below. These databases include, but are not limited to: the database of Members 123, the database of Registered Data Elements 124, the database of Registered Informative Object 125, the database of registered advertisements 126, the database of tracking / billing data 127, the advertiser association database 128, and the software database 129. The databases observed herein are delimited by the function in order to simplify the description of the system of Common Point Authoring 10, although these databases can be implemented in a single physical database or a smaller or larger number of databases shown here. These selections are simply a matter of engineering choice and do not relate to the concepts set forth herein. Similarly, an application server 121 is illustrated herein, executing a plurality of software modules: the authentication server 141, the tracking / billing server 142, the authoring server 143, the member access server 144, the advertising server 145, although multiple servers can be used to perform this task. In this way, the Common Point Authoring system 10 set forth herein represents one of many possible implementations to provide the described functionality to the designated recipients. In addition, other computer systems, such as, for example, the Advertiser Web Site Server 130 may be served by the Common Point Authoring system 10. The Advertiser's Web Server system typically comprises a firewall gateway 132, a server 131, the terminal devices 133 and a large capacity storage device represented herein as an advertising database 134. This system can be used to create advertising materials to be used in conjunction with the Common Point Authoring system 10 and be provided. Subscribers that are linked to the advertiser's website system through the operation of the Common Point Authoring system 10 as will be described later. The resources illustrated herein are selected for the purpose of illustrating the concept of the Common Point Authoring system 10 and it is not intended to limit the applicability of this concept to other network implementations or system configurations.

Physical System Model The Common Point Authoring system software is an automated document authoring and distribution system that allows Subscribers to securely authorize, maintain, and distribute their own data to earn or reduce freight costs. in accordance with government regulations. The system can be used as a centralized warehouse with an internet-based authoring and provisioning mechanism so that participation only requires an Internet connection and a web browser. The interconnectivity of the Common Point Authoring system with other systems allows the purchase and sale of the data held by the Subscriber such as the articles and to reduce the loading costs in accordance with government regulations.

Informative Object and Data Elements Figure 2 illustrates a typical Informative Object and its content that may be authored, distributed and maintained by the Present Common Point Authoring System. In particular, the Informative Object 200 comprises a unique identifier 201 that designates the Information Object 200, as well as a plurality of Data Element 211-216 each of which is identified by a corresponding unique identifier 221-226. The Information Object 200 may also contain other data 202, such as, for example, format data, Permissions data, Unregistered Data Elements, registered data objects, unregistered data objects, registered data sets, and data sets. Unregistered. The Data Elements 211-216 which are associated with a particular Informative Object 200 are typically stored in a file system separately from the Informative Object 200, and are linked via the use of indicators, which comprise the unique identifiers of the Data Element 221 -226.

Operation of the Common Point Authoring System Figures 3 to 19 illustrate in flowchart form the operation of the present Common Point Authoring system 10. The architecture of the Common Point Authoring system 10 described herein represents a typical implementation. of the Common Point Authoring system 10 and its operating environment and is not intended to limit the scope of the underlying concept as defined in the appended claims.

Subscriber Registration Process Figure 3 illustrates in a flowchart the operation of the Subscribers' enrollment process of the present Common Point Authoring system 10. The registration process is available to any Cattle Breeder, Cattle Producer, Processor of Livestock, Distributor, Retail, Consumer or third-party vendor who advertise to provide services and products related to the information and / or instructions contained in the Livestock Informational Objects. In step 301, the future Subscriber, located in the TI terminal device, initiates the enrollment process by activating its Ti terminal device to establish a communication connection with the Common Point Authoring system 10. Once connected to it as described above, the Common Point Authoring system 10 generates a uniquely numbered inscription and a consent form (not shown) in step 302 and transmits this form in step 303 to the future Subscriber in the terminal device TI via the communication connection to allow the future Subscriber to become Subscriber of the services provided by the Common Point Authoring system 10. The use of the uniquely numbered registration and the consent form allow the Point Authoring system Common 10 present the specific terms and conditions of the subscription to the future Subscriber and also to track the future Subscribers who have access to the Common Point 10 Authoring system for the purposes of registration. This simplifies the Subscriber management process because each future Subscriber who has access to the Common Point 10 Authoring system for the purposes of registration is uniquely defined by this identifier and the remaining Subscriber information is used for the purposes of billing and identification. Thus, a Subscriber who has a plurality of sites can register each site individually without confusion, because the corporate name is not the Subscriber's delimiter, the Subscriber's delimiter is the unique identification assigned to the registration and consent form. In step 304, the future Subscriber provides the information required to complete the fields for the entry of registration data and the consent form and transmits the complete form to the Common Point Authoring system 10. In step 305, the system Common Point Authorship 10 generates a unique registration number or unique electronic signature to identify and distinguish this future Subscriber from all other Subscribers, including Subscribers with duplicate or identical names, and verify in step 306 whether registration and the consent form has been completed or not properly. If not, the process branches to step 307 where an appropriate error message is returned to the future Subscriber indicating that the form was improperly filled and with the observation that any registration fee will be returned if the registration process ends in this union, because the registration has not been made. If the registration form was completed correctly, the processing proceeds to step 308 where, using the processes illustrated in Figure 4, the name of the future Subscriber and the unique registration number in the Subscribers 123 database are entered. Again, a Subscriber who has a plurality of sites can register each site individually without confusion because the unique identifier assigned to the registration and the consent form is the delimiter. If the processes illustrated in Figure 4 reject the name of the future Subscriber, the processing returns to step 307 where an appropriate error message indicating the violation of a quality standard is returned to the future Subscriber and notification that any registration fee will be refunded. if the registration process in this union is finished, because the registration has not been made. If the name of the future Subscriber is acceptable, in step 309 the Common Point Authoring system 10 approves the registration and consent form and assigns a username and password to this new Subscriber to allow future access of the Subscriber system. Common Point Authoring 10. In step 310, the Common Point Authoring system 10 deposits all the registration data that were entered by the Subscriber in the registration and the consent form, and makes an initial entry of good category, in the Subscriber database 123. An invoice is generated for the tracking / billing database 127 to charge the Subscriber the registration fee. The lack of timely payment of invoices, charges, usage fees, subscriber fees and other charges associated with the subscription in the Common Point Authoring System 10 results in the removal of good category income on the basis of Subscriber data 123. In step 311, the Common Point Authoring system 10 transmits a good category notification to the Subscriber of a successful enrollment and provides the username and password, generated in step 309, to the Subscriber, which is now a Member of the Common Point Authoring system 10. In addition, the Common Point Authoring System 10 downloads software modules from the software database 129 to the terminal device of the TI Subscriber that are necessary to allow the Subscriber perform the tasks for which you have subscribed. As will be described later, there are several software modules, including, but not limited to: Subscriber client software, authoring client software, advertiser client software. Each of these modules corresponds to a basic function for which the Subscriber is enabled. In step 312, the Common Point 10 authoring system invites the Member to create and register an Information Object with the Member ID using the processes illustrated in Figure 15 that will be added to the Affiliate 123 database for future access by the party. of the Member. The registration process then returns to the processes in Figure 3 and goes out in step 313.

Process for the Creation of the Functional Object with the ID of the Member Figure 15 illustrates in flowchart form the operation of the creation of the Informative Object with the ID of the Member and the registration process of the Common Point Authoring System during the registration of a Member using the processes illustrated in Figure 3. By using the processes in Figure 15, a Member can select, and the author in the Information Object of the Member's ID, the predefined Data Elements as the search criteria whereby that Member can be found by other Members of the Common Point Authoring System and a Member can establish the Initial Permissions that relate to access by other Members to the information and / or instructions of the Information Object with the Member's ID , including Permits that require compensation payable before access to the Information Object with the Member ID is allowed . In step 1501, the Member is invited to create an Information Object with the Member ID that includes a decision on the Member's part in step 1502, whether or not they wish to receive offers or announcements within the context of the Authoring system. Common Point 10. If not, as indicated by a negative response provided by the Member in step 1503, the processing is output in step -1507. If the Member wishes to receive this information, then at Step 1504 the Member creates and registers an Information Object with the Member's ID. In step 1505 the Member selects the predefined Data Elements as the search criteria to filter the universe of business messages or announcements and sets the Permissions to activate these parameters. In step 1506, the Member selects the predefined Data Elements that identify other Members (or classes of Members) of the Common Point Authoring system 10 as the search criteria to thereby filter the universe of the Members. The Member also sets the Access Permissions, including the Compensation Permits, to activate these parameters. Finally, the processing then goes to step 1507.

Creation of the Member's Informative Object or Update Process Figure 16 illustrates in flowchart form the functioning of the creation of the Member's Informative Object or the process of updating this Common Point Authoring System. The processes illustrated in the Figure 16 extend the processes illustrated in Figure 15. The processes in Figure 16 illustrate how a Member of the Common Point Authoring System can initiate the creation, registration and update of an Information Object with the Member ID. In step 1601, the Member initiates a process to create or update a Member's Information Object. In response to this action, the Common Point Authoring system 10 in step 1602 determines whether or not there is an Informative Object with the Member ID for this Member. If there is an Informative Object, the processing proceeds to step 1604, where the Member is presented with its Informative Object with the Member ID for review and Update, and then the processing proceeds to step 1605. If there is no Informative Object, the processing proceeds to step 1603 where the Member is encouraged to create and register an Information Object with the Member ID then the processing also proceeds to step 1605. Changes to the Information Object with the Member ID are implemented by the Member in step 1605 and the processing then proceeds to step 1606 where the Member selects the predefined Data Elements as the search criteria to thereby filter the universe of offers or advertising messages and sets the Permissions to activate these parameters. In step 1607, the Member selects the predefined Data Elements that identify other Members (or classes of Members) of the Common Point Authoring system 10 as the search criteria to thereby filter the universe of Members. The Member also sets the Access Permissions and the Compensation Permissions to activate these parameters. Finally, in step 1608 then the processing exits.

Process for the Creation of the Data Element Figure 4 illustrates in flowchart form the operation of the process for the creation of the Data Element of this Common Point Authoring system 10. The Members that are authorized to create the Data Elements are Cattle Breeders, Cattle Producers, Cattle Processors, Distributors, Retailers and Consumers, all individuals and companies that produce or consume the products for which Informative Objects are required. Thus, in the example of a Livestock Information Object, Livestock Breeders, Livestock Producers, and Livestock Processors via regulatory measures are required to produce an Livestock Information Object for each animal or animal unit produced or processed. The members can also be Distributors, Retailers or Consumers that can create the Data Elements through which they can assess or comment on the quality of the manufactured products. To prevent the creation of fictitious Data Elements that may corrupt the system, when a Member accesses the Common Point Authoring system 10 in step 502, the identity of the Member is verified in step 503 by an authentication server 141 against a authorized Members database 123 to ensure that this Member has the good category and Permissions to create an additional Data Element in step 513 by accessing the process illustrated in Figure 4. Future Members in step 308 can also access to the process illustrated in Figure 4 for the limited purpose of creating a Member name as a predefined Data Element. In step 402, a Member, in the process to create a Data Element in step 513, uses the client software module for authorship running on the terminal device TI to identify and select the category of the Data Element and presents the content proposed for this Data Element. In step 402, a future Member, in the process of creating the Member's name as a predefined Data Element in step 308, is allowed by the authentication server 141 only to identify and select a specific category for that Member's name. . In any case, the information of the category indicates that of the various fields for data entry shown in Figure 2 is selected for the placement of this particular Project Data Element. There are typically differences between these fields for data entry and the review and certification process executed by the Common Point Authoring system 10 relates the proposed Project Data Element to all the other Data Elements of this category stored in the base of system data. Therefore, in step 403, the author server 143 of the Common Point Authoring System 10 reviews the Project Data Element to determine whether or not the language contained therein is in the approved format and content, using a content analysis review process to compare the language of the Project Data Element with a dictionary of accepted conditions. In addition, when the selected category accepts the image data, the image data is revised by content and encoded when appropriate. The format is similarly verified to ensure that adequate and complete information is provided. If the content check detects any failure in the Project Data Element, in step 406 a message is returned to the Member rejecting the Project Data Element, with an appropriate annotation that relates to the reason for the rejection. In step 404, if the Project Data Element is accepted, the content is reviewed to determine whether or not the content of the Data Element corresponds to a Member name. In that case, the processing branches to step 410 where the sub-routine of the process for creating the Data Element of the Member's name is activated. This sub-routine creates a standard immutable Data Element that comprises the name of the Member to be used in the creation of one or more Informational Objects, because the name of the Member appears in each Informative Object that the author creates. In step 411, the future Member enters the unique registration number assigned in step 305, and in step 412 the Common Point Authoring System 10 allocates the unique registration number as an identifier for the Name Element of the future Member. In step 413, the name of the future Member and the identifier of the Data Element are permanently added to the database of Members 123, the sub-routine ends and the processing goes out in step 414. In step 404, if the Project Data Element is not a Member name, the processing proceeds to step 405 where the Project Data Element is compared by the authoring server 143 with all the previously recorded Data Elements of this category to ensure that the Element Project Data is not the duplicate of a previous Data Element. If a duplication is determined, in step 406 a message is returned to the Member to reject the Project Data Element, with an appropriate annotation that relates to the reason for the rejection. On the other hand, in step 407 the authoring server 143 of the Common Point Authoring system 10 generates a unique identifier of the registered Data Element and assigns this to the Project Data Element and in step 408, the Authored Common Point 10 translates the Data Element into other languages and attaches a language identifier to each translation of the Data Element. The processing then proceeds to step 409 where this newly created Data Element is permanently added to the registered Data Element 124 database, along with its corresponding unique identifier. This process then goes out in step 414.

Process for the Creation of Informative Objects Figure 5 illustrates in flow diagram form the operation of the process of authoring and creation of the Informative Object of the Cattle of the present system of Common Point Authoring 10. The Members that are authorized to provide authorship and create Informative Objects are Cattle Breeders, Livestock Producers, Cattle Processors, Distributors, Retailers and Consumers, all are individuals and companies that produce or consume animals or animal products for which Livestock Informational Objects are required. When a Member accesses the Common Point Authoring system 10 in step 501 and executes the process of entering the authoring system in step 502, the identity of the Member is verified through an authentication server 141 against a database of Members authorized 123 in step 503 to ensure that this is a good category Member and has the authorizations to access the process illustrated in Figure 5. If not, in step 504, the Common Point Authoring System 10 leaves the system. If the Member is of good category, the Common Point Authoring system 10 certifies the Member as an "author" for this process and proceeds to step 505 where the software module for the client's authoring that is running on the device of the The TI Member terminal is verified to identify the software version in such a way that the running authoring session of the Common Point Authoring system 10 may be compatible with the Member's software. In step 505A the Common Point Authoring system 10 redirects the Member to step 512 if the Member retrieves a Registered Informative Object that could be presented after the creation and registration of a new Registered Informative Object in step 1713. If it is not , the system advances to step 506 where the Member initiates the process of authorship for a Livestock Informational Object by creating a Non-Registered Earned Informative Object or Project Object. In step 507, the authoring server 143 of the Common Point Authoring System 10 inserts various basic information into the unregistered Livestock Information Object, such as, for example, a temporary name provided by the Member and an identifier of the version of software used to create the Informative Object. The Member in step 508 identifies the various formats available for use with this Livestock Information Object, so the various Members that retrieve the Livestock Information Object receive it formatted for use, these formats are referred to as the Document Versions. In this way, in the case of a Livestock Information Object, there may be a Breeder Version, a Producer Version, a Processor Version, a Distributor Version, a Retail Version, a Consumer Version, and the like. In step 509, the Member must select its name by selecting a Data Element from the Members database 123 that corresponds to a previously stored Data Element whose content is the Member's name. The authoring server 143 in step 510 allows the Member to establish the Permissions for access to the Livestock Information Object as well as for the auxiliary services associated with the Livestock Information Object. In step 511, these Data Elements selected in steps 509-510 are written to the Livestock Information Object, in step 512 the Member can create the additional Data Elements using the process of Figure 4, and in the steps 513-514, the Member may use the previously created Data Elements found in the Registered Data Element Database 124 for insertion into the Livestock Informational Object. Also in steps 513-514 the Member can, if allowed, select the Data Elements of other Informative Objects with access for the insertion in the Informative Object of the Cattle with authorship, or the Member can, if allowed, select other Informative Objects with access for the insertion in the Informative Object of Livestock with authorship. While a Member may select a Registered Data Element from the Registered Data Element Database 124, steps 513-514 may also allow an Authorized Member to select the Data Elements of a Livestock Informational Object with prior authorship that it could facilitate the authorship of information of a Cattle Informative Object in many Livestock Informative Objects with reference to one of the manufactured products of animals. In step 516, the tracking / billing server 142 of the Common Point Authoring system 10 calculates any fees owed and enters this information into the tracking / billing database 127 and the Member determines whether or not they have been inserted all the Elements of Data or Informative Objects necessary in the Informative Object of Livestock. If not, the processing returns to step 512 for the preferred inserts. If all the necessary Data Elements and Informational Objects have been provided, the processing proceeds to step 517 where the Member establishes the Permissions for this unregistered Livestock Information Object and then transmits the Livestock Informational Object not registered in step 518 to the record in such a way that this unregistered Cattle Informative Object can be processed to become a registered Cattle Informative Object, and the process is set out in step 519.

Process for the registration of the Informative Object Figure 6 illustrates in a flowchart the operation of the registration process of the Livestock Informational Object of the present Common Point Authoring system 10 after step 518 described above. In step 601, the unregistered Cattle Informational Object created using the process described with respect to Figure 5, is presented to the Common Point Authoring system 10 for registration. In step 602, the author server 143 verifies the unregistered Cattle Informational Object for the appropriate content, format and Permissions. If the content and format are adequate, at step 603 the author server 143 of the Common Point Authoring system 10 generates a unique identification of the Cattle Informative Object and replaces it with the file name created by the Member. In step 604, the author server 143 of the Common Point Authoring System 10 and marks with date and page the Livestock Informative Object to complete the registration process and stores the Livestock Informative Object registered in immutable form in the base of data of the Registered Informative Object 125 in step 605. In step 605 the author server 143 stores the Permissions for the Registered Informative Object, and the Permissions of the Data Elements of which the Registered Informative Object consists, on the basis of Permit data. In step 606, the Common Point Authoring System 10 updates the tracking / billing database 127 to charge the Member's account for the cost of registering this Informative Object. This process comes out in step 607.

Process for the Definition of Permits of the Data Element Figure 7 illustrates in flowchart form the operation of the process for the definition of Permissions of the Data Element of the present Common Point Authoring System 10. In the aforementioned description of the process For authoring and creation of the Livestock Information Object of Figure 5, the Member may establish Default Permissions for the use of the Data Elements in the Registered Livestock Object registered after step 513 described above. The process illustrated in Figure 7 details the process for creating default permission settings. In particular, in step 701 the Member selects at least one of a plurality of Default Permissions for a Data Element identified in the Unregistered Cattle Informational Object. In step 702, the Common Point Authoring system 10 determines whether or not the Member has indicated that this Data Element should hyperlink by default to a predefined WEB site. If so, the URL site is entered on the WEB by the Member in step 703 and the processing proceeds to step 706 as will be described below. If the Member does not link to the selected Data Element to a WEB site, then in step 704 it is determined whether the Data Element will hyperlink or not by default to an e-mail address. In that case, in step 705 the Member enters the data of the e-mail address and the processing proceeds to step 706. If no hyperlinking is established, then the processing also proceeds to step 706. In step 706, the Common Point Authoring system 10 determines whether the Data Element can be observed or not by default according to a version of specific documents of the Data Element as defined by the Member in step 509. In that case, in step 708 the Member identifies in which of the defined document versions the Data Element will be observable by default and the processing goes out in step 709. If no election is made by the Member in step 707, then the processing proceeds to step 708, where the default value is adjusted automatically since the Data Element can be observed in all document versions. Processing proceeds in step 709.

Process for Permissions of the Informative Object and Offertory Procedures Figure 8 illustrates in flowchart form the operation of the process for the definition of Access Permissions of the Livestock Informative Object of the present system. authorship and distribution of Informative Object 10 after step 517 described above. At step 801, the Member, who is the Owner of a selected Livestock Information Object, initiates the process to set the Access Permissions for the selected Livestock Information Object. In step 802, the Member identifies whether or not any access is allowed. If access to other Members is not allowed for this Informative Object, the processing then proceeds to step 805 where the Informative Object is observed as not available to any other Members and the processing goes out in step 808. If the Member observes that any access form, in step 803 the Member can identify if a limited set of Members is extracted or not from the database of Affiliates 123 can have access to the Informative Object. In that case, the processing proceeds to step 806 where the Member identifies, using only the database of Affiliates 123, the other selected Members that are authorized to have access to this Livestock Information Object and the system of authorship and distribution of Informative Objects 10 establishes the Informative Object with this list of Members with authorized access. The processing then proceeds at step 808. If the Member does not limit access to this Livestock Informative Object, then at step 804 the system for authoring and distributing the Informative Object 10 registers in Steps 601-607 the Informative Object with a indication that all Members can access this Informative Object and the processing is done in step 808.

After the registration of the Livestock Information Object, as illustrated by the processes in Figure 5 described above, the Member / Owner can modify the default settings of the Permissions for the Registered Livestock Object and the Data Elements registered with the Informative Cattle Object. Figures 17 & 18 illustrate in flowchart form the operation of the Permitting and offending by-laws processes of this Common Point Authoring System. In step 1701, the Common Point Authoring System 10 initiates the Permissions and Offertory procedures by default . A process for session initiation similar to that illustrated in steps 502, 503 and 504 described above can be assumed. In step 1702 the Common Point Authoring system 10 determines whether or not the requested Livestock Information Objective will be available for a list of Members with authorized access. If not, in step 1703 the requested Livestock Information Object is set as unavailable and the processing is output in step 1716. If the requested Livestock Information Object will be available for a list of Members with authorized access, then in the step 1704 it is determined whether or not the requested Livestock Information Object is available for all other Members, and in that case, the requested Livestock Information Object is set as available in step 1706 and the processing is output in step 1716. another part, in step 1705 the Member selects other Members of the Affiliate database. In step 1707, it is determined whether the Member's access to all the Data Elements within the Cattle Informative Object will be allowed or not. If not, a message is returned in step 1717 and the processing is output in step 1716 in such a way that the Member can use the processes in Figure 5 for the re-authoring of another Livestock Information Object containing only the Desired Data Elements for which access by other Members will be allowed. If access is provided to all the Data Elements in the Livestock Information Object, then in step 1708 the Offertory Member selects the Permissions that will be offered. These determine the magnitude and longevity of the changes allowed for the Registered Cattle Informational Objects and their Data Elements. In addition, in step 1709 the Offertory Member establishes the conditions of the offerings such as, for example, those that control access to a data object by a Member offered during the bidding process, and the identification of outstanding Permits that affect the purpose of the offer. data and its Data Elements. Once these actions are taken, the Offertory Member in step 1710 transmits the offertory message to each Member offered that is listed in the list of selected Members. As part of this transmission process, the Common Point Authoring System 10 verifies in step 1711 the database to determine whether each Member thus identified has the permission, in its subject of the associated Member ID, of the Permission to receive the supply of the offertory message. The access by the selected Members is affected in step 1712 where the access of the Livestock Information Object is handled after the establishment of the offending procedures by the Member offered. In step 1713, the Common Point Authoring system 10 identifies any information to which the offered Member is allowed to access the Information Objects with authorship by the previous owners or holders of an animal product or any information that was authored. with other Members. This Permit can be provided, for example, to provide easy access to regulatory information that must be moved down a supply chain without restriction. In step 1714 the Common Point Authoring system 10 creates a new Registered Informative Object of the Livestock Information Object of the offending Member. The importance of this process for example is that the new Registered Informative Object can be tracked by the Common Point Authoring System 10 for the Livestock Information Object of the bidding Member as many times as an animal is transferred from an Owner to a new Owner and then, after the animal is collected, as many times as the animal products are transferred from the Cattle Processor to the Distributor to a Retail to the Consumer. The Registered Livestock Information Object is established as available to other Members selected in step 1715 when the selected Members have accepted their respective offers. The Common Point Authoring system 10 also establishes the accepted Permissions and the processing goes out in step 1716.

Process for Members Access Figure 9 illustrates in a flowchart the processes for accessing a Registered Cattle Information Object by a Member of this Common Point Authoring System 10. Any Cattle Breeder, Cattle Producer, Livestock Processor, Distributor, Retail, Consumer, or third-party vendor that maintains and controls one or more Permissions to access a Registered Livestock Object in this manner may follow the processes in Figure 9. This member access may be a initial author and the registrant of the Registered Cattle Informative Object or one or more Permissions can be acquired or received to access the Livestock Informative Object via the Offertory procedures of Permits and acceptance of Figures 17 and 18. Perpetual Procedures of Permits and of acceptance illustrated in Figures 17 and 18 authorize the owner of the Data and control in the hands of those who see the permissions for the Authorship and Created Data Elements and the Livestock Informational objects. The processes illustrated in Figure 9 prevent unauthorized access of a Livestock Informational Object or the Data Element without adequate authority (ie, without proper Permissions). As will be seen below with respect to the definitions described above, Permits can be (1) exclusive or non-exclusive, (2) conditional or permanent, and / or (3) limited or unrestricted. Exclusivity can be based on the criteria established in an Information Object with the Member's ID (for example, members of a certain livestock organization can be granted exclusive access to a Livestock Information Object and its Data Elements). Conditionally, authorization can be given at the time of payment of copyright or compensation for each access of a Livestock Information Object and its Data Elements. The limitations can be expressed in the terms of which Permit can not be possessed (for example, it can be allowed by a Retailer that a Consumer sees an Informative Object on a computer screen, although it is not allowed to copy any information presented to a computer file or print on paper any information presented). When a Member has access to the Common Point Authoring system 10 in step 901 and executes the Membership access system for entry to the process in step 902, the member identity is verified against a database of authorized Members 123 through an authentication server 141 in step 903 to ensure that this Member is a good category Member and has the Permissions to access the process illustrated in Figure 9. If not, in step 904, the Authoring System of Common Point 10 leaves the system. If the Member is of good category, the Common Point Authoring System 10 proceeds to step 905 where the Member server 144 provides access to the Member to the Information Objective 125 database using the predefined set of permits for both the Member and the Livestock Informational Objects. In step 906, the Member selects one of the Livestock Informative Objects for recovery and the version of the Informative Object document in step 907. The Common Point Authoring system 10 retrieves the Informative Object selected in step 908 and forms the software version running on the device of the TI terminal of the Member with the one defined as relevant for the Livestock Informative Object 'selected in step 909. In step 910, the server with access to Members 144 reviews the Permissions of advertising associated with the recovered Livestock Information Object and retrieves these advertisements for submission to the Member together with the Livestock Information Object selected for use permitted by the Member in step 911. In step 912, the Member Access software registers the Member's access to the Livestock Information Objects and updates the Member's income in the tracking / billing database 127 to perform a c The member for this retrieval of the Cattle Informational Object in step 913 was asked. In step 914, the tracking / billing server 142 of the Common Point Authoring System 10 stores the data in the tracking / billing database 127 indicative of the Member with ownership of this Livestock Information Object and the credits shared by the Authored Member with an amount indicative of the revenue obtained from this recovery of the Livestock Information Object. In step 915, the Common Point Authoring system 10 determines whether or not the Member wishes to see another version of the document of this Cattle Informative Object and, in that case, returns to step 907 as described above. If not, processing proceeds to step 916 where the Member ends this access session of the Informative Object and the advertising data objects are canceled in step 917 and processing is completed in step 918.

Process for Ad Authorship Figure 10 illustrates in flowchart form the operation of the ad serving process of the present Common Point Authoring system 10. The advertisements may be authored by any Member including the Livestock Breeder, the Livestock Producer , the Cattle Processor, the Distributor, the Retailer, the Consumer or any entity that owns or consumes an animal or its products within the supply, distribution and consumption chain of the livestock industry for the production of meat. An advertiser may also be a third-party vendor that advertises to provide services and products related to the information and instructions contained in the Livestock Informational Objects. The advertising processes illustrated in Figures 10 to 14, and the offending and acceptance procedures illustrated in Figures 17 and 18, are the processes of any market where items can be sold for profit, be physical items similar to cattle or items intangibles similar to Registered Livestock Informational Objects. When a Member has access to the Common Point Authoring system 10 in step 1001 and executes the login process in step 1002, the identity of the Member is verified by the authentication server 144 against a database of authorized Members. 123 in step 1003 to ensure that this Member is a good category Member and has the Permissions to access the authoring process for advertising illustrated in Figure 10. If not, in step 1004, the Authoring System for Common Point 10 leaves the system. If the Member is of good category, the Common Point Authoring System 10 proceeds to step 1005 where the advertising server 145 (or alternatively the author server 143) of the Common Point Authoring system 10 reconciles this software version of the Member with which it is currently running on the Common Point Authoring System 10. At step 1006 the Member initiates the authoring process for an advertisement by creating an unregistered or project advertisement data object. In step 1007, the advertising server 145 of the Common Point Authoring System 10 inserts into the advertising data object without registering a temporary name created by the Member and a software version used for the advertising data object. The Member in step 1008 must select its name when selecting a Data Element from the Members database 123 that corresponds to a previously stored Data Element whose content is the Member's name. The advertising server 145 in step 1009 allows the Member to create the advertising message and insert it into the unregistered advertising data object. In step 1010, the Member investigates the database of the Data Element 124 to identify various Data Elements that could be relevant to the unregistered advertising data object and inserts the data identifying these Data Elements into the objects. of advertising data in step 1011. In step 1012, the Member determines whether the advertising data object is complete or not. If not, the processing returns to step 1009 and in that case, the processing proceeds to step 1013 where the Advertising Member establishes the Permissions for this advertising data object. See steps 1305, 1306 and 1307, where the Permissions set by the Member determine whether or not there is a retrieval of the advertising data object in step 1310 or a deletion of the registration of advertising associations in step 1312. In step 1014 the Member submits the unregistered advertising data object to the Common Point 10 Authoring system for registration and the authorship process for advertising goes out in step 1015.

Process for Advertising Registration Figure 11 illustrates in flowchart form the operation of the advertising registration process of the present Common Point Authoring system 10. The unregistered advertising data object created via the process defined in the Figure 10 is processed for registration using the process of Figure 11. In particular, in step 1101, the unregistered advertising data object is presented to the Common Point Authoring system 10 for registration in step 1102, the advertising server 145 verifies the unregistered advertising data object for a content, format and Appropriate Permissions. If the content and format are adequate, at step 1103 the advertising server 145 of the Common Point Authoring system 10 generates a unique identifier of the advertising data object and replaces it with a temporary file name created by the Member. In step 1104, the advertising server 145 of the Common Point Authoring System 10 records the advertising data object with date and time. In step 1105, the advertising server 145 stores the unique identification of the advertising data object inserted in step 1103, the mark with date and time inserted in step 1104, the search criteria inserted in step 1011, the message of advertising inserted in step 1009, and Permissions inserted in step 1013 in an immutable form in the registered advertisement database 126. In step 1106 the advertising server 145 produces a record of the advertising data object in the database of advertising associations 128. In step 1107, the Common Point Authoring System 10 updates the tracking / billing database 127 to charge the Member's account for the cost of registering this object of registration. advertising data. This process goes out in step 1108 to return to the process defined in Figure 10.

Process for Registration of Access to Publicity Figure 12 illustrates in flowchart form the operation of the process for registration of publicity access of the Common Point Authoring System. This process is initiated in step 1201 of step 1106 noted above . In step 1202, the advertising server 145 executes an investigation of the database of the Registered Informative Object 125 using the search criteria entered in step 1011 for the Advertising Data Object recorded in step 1105. In step 1203 , the Registered Informative Objects that match the search criteria entered in step 1011 are organized and listed by their unique identifiers. In step 1204, each of the corresponding unique identifiers of step 1203 is associated with the unique identifier of the advertising data object recorded in step 1105. In step 1205 the associated information of step 1204 is recorded in the Database of advertising associations 128 to accelerate processing in steps 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306 and 1307 with pending completion of the effect of the Advertising Data Object registered as determined by the Permissions entered in step 1013. Upon completion of step 1205 , or in the event that any Registered Informative Object does not match the criteria of the Registered Advertising Data Object in step 1202, then it is judged that step 1106 was completed and there is a return from step 1206 to step 1107.

Process for Registered Advertising Recovery Figures 13 and 14 illustrate in flowchart form the operation of the registered advertising recovery process of the present Common Point Authoring system 10. When a Member retrieves an Object Informative, the registered advertising data objects can be recovered in step 910 as described above. This recovery process is initiated in step 1301 and in step 1302 the client client software transmits the data to the Common Point 10 Authoring system for verification with the Informative Object with the respective Member ID for any Permits that could authorize the recovery of registered advertising objects, to identify the selected Livestock Information Object, the format of the Livestock Information Object that will be recovered, and the advertising client's software. The advertising server in step 1303 determines whether or not there is a unique identifier of the Informative Object in the database of the advertising associations 128 that coincides with the Informative Object selected by the Member. If not, the processing is output in step 1315. If the advertising server 145 detects a match between an Information Object selected by the Member and a record in the database of the advertising associations 128, then in step 1304 the software compatibility between the advertising client running on the device of the Member's terminal and that defined for the identified advertisement is verified and if an incompatibility is detected, in step 1312 the advertising server 145 suppresses the registration of the advertising association and notify the advertiser in step 1313 of the deletion of the registration. In step 1314 the advertising server 145 determines whether other matches have been presented and if not the processing goes out in step 1315. If another match occurs, the processing returns to step 1304. If there is a certain software compatibility in step 1304, the advertising server in steps 1305-1307 determines whether the advertisement has expired or not according to the Permissions entered in step 1013. If not, the processing proceeds to step 1308 where the advertiser is identified and determined its place. If the advertiser is not in a good category or the ad has expired, processing proceeds to step 1312 as noted above. On the other hand, the processing proceeds to step 1309 where the identified Advertising Data object is located in the advertising database 126 and is retrieved in step 1310 for presentation to the Member in step 911. In step 1311 the advertising server 145 updates the tracking / billing database 127 to record the fee due for the use of the advertisement. The processing then proceeds to step 1314 as described above.

Summary The invention of the Common Point Authoring System facilitates immutable authorship, unique identification, authentication, tracking, possession and control, advertising, sale and / or purchase of Informational Objects that have authorship within the chain of supply, distribution and commercial consumption, segmented by an owner and throughout it as part of a creation or manufacture of products, distribution of products, and / or product consumption process.

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1. CLAIMS 1. A common point authoring system for the maintenance of data to be used by the authorship and access members to track the uniquely identified products, comprising: means to allow an authoring member to create the data comprising an informative project object, which uniquely identifies a product for tracking purposes; means for authenticating the project informational object created by the authorized authoring member; means for converting the authenticated informational object created by the authorized authoring member to a corresponding immutable informational object that is identified by a unique identifier; and means for writing the immutable informational object created in a memory for use by members with authorized access.
2. 2. The common point authoring system according to claim 1 further comprising: means for allowing a member with authorized access to retrieve a selected informational object.
3. 3. The common point authoring system according to claim 1, further comprising: means for updating an informative object by creating a new informative object that relates again to the informative object and that contains new data.
4. 4. The common point authoring system according to claim 1, further comprising: means for enabling an authorized authoring member to create data comprising at least one project data element; means for authenticating at least one project data element created by the authorized authoring member; means for converting at least one authenticated project data element created by the authorized authoring member for immutable correspondence with at least one data element that is identified by a unique identifier; means for writing to a memory at least one immutable data element created.
5. 5. The common point authoring system according to claim 4, wherein the means for enabling comprises: means for maintaining in a read-only mode, a set of data defining an informative object, the data set comprising a plurality of unique identifiers which correspond to a selected set of the plurality of data elements.
6. 6. The common point authoring system according to claim 5, further comprising: means for updating an informative object by creating a new informative object relating again to the informative object and containing at least one new data element.
7. 7. The common point authoring system according to claim 5, wherein the authorized authoring member creates an informative object, the means for conversion further comprising: means for associating the unique identifier assigned to the created informative object with the unique identifiers which correspond to a selected set of the plurality of data elements.
8. 8. The common point authoring system according to claim 1 further comprising: means, which react to the access of an informative object by the member with authorized access, to "provide the member with authorized access with the representative data of an assistant of a product and a service that relates to the informative object accessed.
9. 9. The common point authoring system according to claim 1, further comprising: means for allowing an authorized advertising member to create a project advertisement data object; - means for authenticating the project advertising data object created by the authorized advertising member; and means for converting the authenticated advertisement data object created by the authorized advertising member to a corresponding immutable advertisement data object maintained in a read-only mode.
10. 10. The common point authoring system according to claim 9, further comprising: means, which react to the access of an information object by the authorized access member, to provide the authorized access member with access to one of the data objects of advertising that relate to the informative object accessed.
11. 11. A method for maintaining data to be used by members of authorship and access to track products uniquely identified, which includes: allowing an authorized author to create data that comprises a project information object, which identifies - only one product for tracking purposes; authenticate the informational object of the project created by the authorized authoring member; converting the authenticated informational object created by the authorized authoring member to a corresponding immutable informational object that is identified by a unique identifier; and write the immutable informational object created in a memory to be used by members with authorized access.
12. 12. The common point authoring system according to claim 11, further comprising: enabling a member with authorized access to retrieve a selected informational object.
13. 13. The common point authoring system according to claim 11, further comprising: updating an informative object by creating a new informative object that is related again to the informative object and that contains new data.
14. 14. The common point authoring system according to claim 11, further comprising: allowing an authorized authoring member to create data comprising at least one project data element; authenticate at least one project data element created by the authorized authoring member; converting at least one authenticated project data element created by the authorized authoring member to at least one corresponding immutable data element that is identified by a unique identifier; Write at least one immutable data element in a memory.
15. 15. The common point authoring system according to claim 14, wherein the enabling step comprises: maintaining in a read-only mode, a set of data defining an informative object, the data set comprises a plurality of unique identifiers that correspond to a selected set of the plurality of data elements.
16. 16. The common point authoring system according to claim 15, further comprising: updating an informative object by creating a new informative object relating again to the informative object and containing at least one new data element.
17. 17. The common point authoring system according to claim 15, wherein the authorized authoring member creates an informative object, the conversion step further comprising: associating the unique identifier assigned to the created informative object with the unique identifiers corresponding to a selected set of the plurality of data elements.
18. 18. The common point authoring system according to claim 11, further comprising: providing, in response to the access of an information object by the member with authorized access, the member with authorized access with the representative data of a product assistant and a service that is related to the informative object accessed.
19. 19. The common point authoring system according to claim 11, further comprising: allowing an authorized advertising member to create a project advertisement data object; authenticate the project advertisement data object created by the authorized advertising member; and converting the authenticated advertising data object created by the authorized advertising member to a corresponding immutable advertising data object maintained in a read-only mode.
20. 20. The common point authoring system according to claim 19, further comprising: providing, in response to accessing an information object by the member with authorized access, the member with authorized access with access to an advertising data object that is relates to the informative object accessed.
21. 21. A common point authoring system for the maintenance of data to be used by the authorship and access members to track the products uniquely identified, comprising: means for the authoring client server to allow an authorized authoring member to create data that includes a project information object; means for the information object database to maintain in a read-only mode, a data set that defines an informative object, the data set comprises a plurality of unique identifiers corresponding to a selected set of the plurality of elements of data; authentication means for authenticating the project information object created by the authorized authoring member; means for the authoring server to convert the project information object created by the authorized authoring member to a corresponding immutable information object that is identified by a unique identifier; means for the management of the database to write the immutable informational object created in a database of informative objects.
22. 22. The common point authoring system according to claim 21, further comprising: means for the member client server to allow a member with authorized access to retrieve a selected informational object.
23. 23. The common point authoring system according to claim 21, further comprising: an informative object for editing the client server's authoring means for updating an informative object by creating a new informative object that is related again to the informative object and that contains new data.
24. 24. The common point authoring system according to claim 21, further comprising: means for the client server for authoring the data item to enable an authorized authoring member to create data comprising at least one project data item; means for authenticating the data element to authenticate at least one project data element created by the authorized authoring member; means for the authoring server of the data element to convert at least one authenticated project data item created by the authorized authoring member to at least one corresponding immutable data item that is identified by a unique identifier; means for writing the data element to write to a memory at least one immutable data element created.
25. 25. The common point authoring system according to claim 24, wherein the means for the client server authoring the data item comprises: memory means for maintaining in a read-only mode, a set of data defining an informative object , the set of data comprising a plurality of unique identifiers that correspond to a selected set of the plurality of data elements.
26. 26. The system for authoring and distributing information according to claim 25, wherein the means of the server for authoring the data element further comprises: means for managing versions to update an informative object by creating a new informative object that is related again to the object informative and containing at least one new data element.
27. 27. The common point authoring system according to claim 25, wherein the authorized authoring member creates an informative object, the means for the authoring server further comprises: mapping means for associating the unique identifier assigned to the created informative object with the identifiers unique ones that correspond to a selected set of the plurality of data elements.
28. 28. The common point authoring system according to claim 21, further comprising: means for the advertising server, which react to the access of an information object by the member with authorized access, to provide the member with authorized access with the representative data of a auxiliary data object of either or both of a product and a service that is related to the accessed informational data object.
29. 29. The common point authoring system according to claim 28, further comprising: means for advertising authorship to enable an authorized advertising member to create a project advertising data object comprising one or more of the plurality of elements of advertising. immutable data; means for advertising authentication to authenticate the project advertisement data object created by the authorized advertising member; and means for storing advertising to convert the authenticated advertising data object created by the authorized advertising member to a corresponding immutable advertising data object maintained in a read-only mode.
30. 30. The common point authoring system according to claim 29, further comprising: advertising access means, which react to the access of an information object by the member with authorized access, to provide the member with authorized access access to one of the advertising data objects, which is related to the information object accessed.