| 4799156 |
Interactive market management system |
| Jan-17-1989 |
A system for interactive on-line electronic communications and processing of business transactions between a plurality of different types of independent users including at least a plurality of sellers,... |
| 4796209 |
Random inventory system |
| Jan-3-1989 |
A method for locating and retrieving a randomly placed object, such as a steel coil, in a warehouse, such as a crane bay of a steel mill storage warehouse. The method comprises the steps of attaching an... |
| 4783740 |
Inventory management system |
| Nov-8-1988 |
The inventory management system comprises a central control unit, a number of parts terminal units deposed at each parts container, and some guide terminal units arranged at each parts container shelf.... |
| 4771383 |
Sales data processing apparatus |
| Sep-13-1988 |
A sales data processing apparatus has a stock data memory for storing stock data indicating the stock of each item. When sales of a certain item are registered, a value corresponding to a registered number... |
| 4737910 |
Apparatus for tracking inventory |
| Apr-12-1988 |
An apparatus is provided for monitoring inventory in a business or hospital to provide an immediate indication of the number of items in such inventory, the number of items needed to be reordered at any... |
| 4639875 |
Quantity checking system and method |
| Jan-27-1987 |
A checking system is provided to check the condition of a plurality of storage racks, e.g., the quantity and types of articles in racks in a machine, with the articles being stored along the length of... |
| 4597457 |
Electronic scale with CRT display |
| Jul-1-1986 |
An electronic scale with a CRT display has an input means composed of a manual data input device, weighing means for measuring the weight of an article, a CRT display unit, and a control unit for effecting... |
| 4419734 |
Inventory control system |
| Dec-6-1983 |
An inventory control system for a plurality of storage areas is provided wherein each storage area comprises at least one platform adapted to support a plurality of identical articles, and platform-supporting... |
| 4383298 |
Plant maintenance control system |
| May-10-1983 |
A plant maintenance control system designed to be effectuated through use of a computer; the basic aspect of the system relates to the unique results obtainable through particular operations performed... |
| 4346453 |
Item display order picking system |
| Aug-24-1982 |
A semi-automatic picking system having pick modules associated with individual compartments of storage bays includes a switch, for manually decrementing or incrementing the module to indicate the number... |
| 4336589 |
Warehousing monitor and control system |
| Jun-22-1982 |
A warehouse product monitoring and control system includes a distribution audit system computer which receives batch picking information on a recording medium identifying each transaction or article to... |
| 4188962 |
Money dispensation control device |
| Feb-19-1980 |
In a money dispensation control system for a money dispenser which dispenses money having a plurality of denominations, money is dispensed separately in a priority order predetermined according to the... |
| 4153931 |
Automatic library control apparatus |
| May-8-1979 |
An on-line computerized system useful in automatic document control and inventory systems such as that needed in libraries with a large number of books, records, films, and other items. In the library... |
| 4025766 |
Inventory recordation system and processing |
| May-24-1977 |
A system for recording an inventory of articles, in an article storage area, comprises A. a platform sized to be attached to an inventory taker moving about the article storage area, B. instrumentation... |
| 3978324 |
Automatic crop inventory system |
| Aug-31-1976 |
In an automatic inventory system for crops, especially tree-borne crops, an airborne television camera views the area being surveyed and delivers an analogue video signal which is converted into a series... |
| 7043324 |
Methods and systems for modeling a bill of material for a configurable product |
| May-9-2006 |
The invention relates to a method of modelling a bill of materials for a configurable product in a managed supply chain and a modeller apparatus for modelling a bill of materials for a configurable product... |
| 7039606 |
System, method and computer program product for contract consistency in a supply chain management framework |
| May-2-2006 |
A system, method and computer program product are disclosed for handling contracts in a supply chain management framework. One of a plurality of contracts is selected. The selected contract template is... |
| 7039496 |
Compression utility for use with smart label printing and pre-loading |
| May-2-2006 |
Systems and Methods for electronically capturing a destination address of a package and using the destination address to automate a package pre-load operation. Compressing the destination address as a... |
| 7035818 |
System and method for electronic inventory |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A system and method for conducting an inventory of tags, wherein each tag is assigned a Tag ID and a manufacturer number. Each tag can be attached to an item to take inventory of those items. A tag reader... |
| 7032820 |
System and method for utilizing RF tags to collect data concerning post-consumer resources |
| Apr-25-2006 |
Data concerning post-consumption items is collected from RF tags. RF tags applied to goods and materials that have been consumed or used and/or discarded or stored for recycling are read by a reader. The... |
| 7031941 |
Method and system for managing configuration of mechanical equipment |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A method and system is disclosed for maintaining a database of configurations of mechanical equipment. A functional configuration database is established to store functional information about an end item... |
| 7025263 |
Systems and methods for tracking alcoholic containers |
| Apr-11-2006 |
Systems and methods for systematically tracking alcoholic containers throughout a given area (e.g., country, state, county, or municipality) to ascertain the transferee or purchaser of an alcoholic container... |
| 7020627 |
Material procurement system and a material procurement method |
| Mar-28-2006 |
A plurality of orderers with their own code systems procures materials from companies (supply companies) with which the orderers have business relations. In this material procurement system, a name register... |
| 7016764 |
Inventory management system for reducing overall warehouse and pipeline inventory |
| Mar-21-2006 |
A computer system for use in reducing overall pipeline inventory within a distribution network that includes a central warehouse that is: (1) adjacent a transportation hub; and (2) configured to store... |
| 7003371 |
Apparatus for processing electronic drawing data |
| Feb-21-2006 |
Disclosed are an apparatus and a method, which assist CAD data to be usable by supplier's own CAD and automatic programming tool no matter how a format of the CAD data from an orderer may be. Electronic... |
| 6993503 |
System and method for allocating a conditional purchase offer for a travel related services reservation to one of a plurality of entities in a buyer driven electronic commerce system |
| Jan-31-2006 |
A system and method of allocating a conditional purchase offer for a product or service to one of a plurality of entities in a buyer-driven system. The conditional purchase offer for the product or service... |
| 6993501 |
Method and system of communication for automated inventory systems |
| Jan-31-2006 |
Various embodiments of this invention are directed towards the communication infrastructure of an automated inventory system, on which the necessary communication between a dispensing unit and an administrative... |
| 6993500 |
System and method for electronic business transaction of trading cards |
| Jan-31-2006 |
An electronic business transaction system of a trading card typically uses the Internet. That is, when a site for the electronic business transaction of the trading card is accessed over the Internet from... |
| 6991761 |
Information management and material distribution for sterilization facilities |
| Jan-31-2006 |
An automated system for management of information and distribution of materials associated with sterilization procedures includes a network server and client computers that communicate via a computer network.... |
| 6988314 |
Assembly, tolerance matching and post-manufacturing quality assurance method |
| Jan-24-2006 |
A system and method for assembling an internal combustion engine and for correlating engine information with a vehicle identification number. The engine includes an engine block and a plurality of pistons.... |
| 6988111 |
Mapping between part numbers that are based on different part numbering schemes |
| Jan-17-2006 |
A computer-implemented method for mapping between part numbers that are based on different part numbering schemes includes receiving a first part number associated with an item, the first part number associated... |
| 6988080 |
Automated security and reorder system for transponder tagged items |
| Jan-17-2006 |
An automated security and reorder system for items maintained within a boundary. Each item has an associated transponder which is configured to transmit item identification data for indicating a secured... |
| 6988079 |
System and method for amalgamating multiple shipping companies using reusable containers and wide area networks |
| Jan-17-2006 |
A system and method for delivering packages using a vehicle such as a truck. The packages contain RFIDs that can be electronically queried when the truck is at a destination. A computer communicates to... |
| 6985787 |
Method and apparatus for monitoring parts in a material processing system |
| Jan-10-2006 |
The present invention presents an improved apparatus and method for monitoring parts in a material processing system, wherein the material processing system includes a processing tool, a number of RF-responsive... |
| 6983883 |
System and method for weighing and tracking freight |
| Jan-10-2006 |
In a freight shipment system and method, the lift trucks used by the freight carrier for handling and loading freight shipments are equipped with a weighing device capable of weighing each piece of freight... |
| 6983254 |
Method and apparatus for accepting and processing an application for conformity of a user dictionary to a standard dictionary |
| Jan-3-2006 |
There is disclosed an electronic catalog system in which application data concerning use is received from a user who desires to utilize electronic catalog information using a standard dictionary, internal... |
| 6980967 |
Bounceback detection in online product configuration |
| Dec-27-2005 |
The present invention provides techniques for effecting improved guidance to the user of a configuration system by detecting and eliminating bounceback behavior that unnecessarily eliminates otherwise... |
| 6980887 |
Apparatus and method for improved vending machine inventory maintenance |
| Dec-27-2005 |
Inventory maintenance is improved for a system of one or more vending machines by providing one or more vending machines with unique identifiers, and means for collecting and transmitting information concerning... |
| 6980883 |
Chemical substance total management system, storage medium storing chemical substance management program and chemical substance total management method |
| Dec-27-2005 |
A chemical substance total management system aids for reduction of release and transferring amount of managing substances in business entities. The system retrieves releasing and transferring amount record... |
| 6976007 |
Method and system for multi-carrier package tracking |
| Dec-13-2005 |
A tracking system and method uses a multi-threaded controller to automatically and periodically generate tracking objects that are presented to carrier tracking websites. The tracking objects are retrieved... |
| 6976001 |
Method and apparatus suitable for demand forecasting |
| Dec-13-2005 |
Method and apparatus suitable for demand forecasting. The invention can enable sales forecasting "by item, by size, by location". The invention features combining a demand profile and a demand model into... |
| 6975937 |
Technique for processing customer service transactions at customer site using mobile computing device |
| Dec-13-2005 |
A technique is described for facilitating delivery and adjustments of customer orders at a customer delivery site. A delivery courier is assigned a mobile field computing device for facilitating delivery... |
| 6970841 |
Large inventory-service optimization in configure-to-order systems |
| Nov-29-2005 |
A manufacturing process is migrated from an existing operation to a configure-to-order (CTO) system. As the CTO operation will eliminate the "machine-type model" (MTM) inventory of the existing operation,... |
| 6965876 |
Methods and devices utilizing a tracking system |
| Nov-15-2005 |
A method and system which tracks productivity including summarization of "tasks performed" for productivity analysis. The tracking capabilities of the system uses a positioning system and includes a complete... |
| 6965866 |
Product warranty registration system and method |
| Nov-15-2005 |
A method for obtaining warranty registration of products, facilitating return of lost products, and expediting warranty service on defective products comprising providing a unique identifier on or within... |
| 6965806 |
Automatic work order/parts order generation and tracking |
| Nov-15-2005 |
A process control system uses an asset utilization expert to collect data or information pertaining to the assets of a process plant from various sources or functional areas of the plant including, for... |
| 6961709 |
System and method of managing inventory |
| Nov-1-2005 |
An inventory management system and method which wirelessly interrogate product labels to determine inventory. The system includes an electronic price label system including electronic displays which display... |
| 6954736 |
System, method and computer program product for order confirmation in a supply chain management framework |
| Oct-11-2005 |
A system, method and computer program product are disclosed for order confirmation in a supply chain management framework. A network is utilized to collect from a plurality of stores of a supply chain... |
| 6954734 |
Method of producing, selling, and distributing articles of manufacture |
| Oct-11-2005 |
A method of selling articles of manufacture which utilizes an electronic communication system to identify a plurality of articles of manufacture, from a plurality of manufacturing entities, which are available... |
| 6952681 |
Tracking the distribution of prescription drugs and other controlled articles |
| Oct-4-2005 |
The disclosed system (System) was created to address many issues related the difficulty of maintaining control of pharmaceutical samples. By leveraging state of art technologies the System revolutionizes... |
