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Data Processing: Financial, Business Practice, Management, Or Cost/price Determination > Automated Electrical Financial Or Business Practice Or Management Arrangement > Inventory Management Inventory ManagementInventory Management patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.11/23/06 - 20060265294 - System and method for facilitating tasks involving travel between locations A system for increasing the efficiency of tasks involving travel between locations. In an illustrative embodiment, the system facilitates acquiring one or more desired products and/or services by a user via an inventory and/or location search. The system includes a first mechanism for providing a query containing information pertaining to ... 11/23/06 - 20060265293 - Method of labeling citrus fruit and tracking customer preferences A method of labeling citrus fruit and tracking customer preferences requires measuring the external appearance and internal taste characteristics for each piece of fruit, placing such information on a label affixed to each piece of fruit, and tracking customer buying preferences. Customer selection choices are also enhanced by education in ... 11/16/06 - 20060259377 - Method of monitoring medical item inventory A medical item inventory system includes a plurality of different types of stored medical items. The system can track a quantity of a medicinal substance type removed from its storage location, including the quantity used and the quantity returned to storage. The system can monitor the medical item inventory in ... 11/16/06 - 20060259376 - Method, system, and computer program product for performing inventory management A method, system, and computer program product for performing inventory management. The method includes determining excess inventory for a plurality of site locations, determining inventory shortfalls for a plurality of site locations, and applying business logic to the excess inventory resulting in an inventory balancing plan. The inventory balancing plan ... 11/09/06 - 20060253347 - Products and processes for vending a plurality of products Products and processes are disclosed for defining at least one inventory group. This at least one inventory group includes at least two products that are available for sale by a vending machine. The vending machine outputs an indication of products that the at least one inventory group includes. The vending ... 11/09/06 - 20060253346 - Method and apparatus for bar code driven drug product verification with equivalency links An improved apparatus and corresponding method are provided for verification of drugs to be dispensed by a pharmacy. A data processing platform and a bar code scanner perform first and second scanning operations. In the first scanning operation, a first bar code symbol (which is part of a prescription label ... 11/02/06 - 20060247986 - Apparatus and method for providing shipment information An apparatus, including a shipment conveyance device associated with a shipment, and which is at least one of a shipping container, a pallet, and a tote, a positioning device which is located in, on, or at, the shipment conveyance device, and which determines a position or location of the shipment ... 11/02/06 - 20060247985 - Method and system for monitoring consumable item usage and providing replenishment thereof Method and system for providing a subscription based replenishment transaction of consumable items such as glucose test strips including a data network, a user terminal operatively coupled to the data network, the user terminal configured to receive and transmit data over the data network, and a server terminal operatively coupled ... 11/02/06 - 20060247984 - System for and method of monitoring an item A system for monitoring an item including a plurality of item identification devices, each item identification device including unique information indicative of the item and being disposed during use on the item, a plurality of supplier identification devices, each supplier identification device including stored supplier biometric data indicative of the ... 10/26/06 - 20060242033 - Future value prediction A method of predicting a future value of a key performance indicator (KPI) is disclosed. The method comprises: a) retrieving, from a database, a data set from which the present KPI value can be derived; and b) operating on data extracted from the data set using a prediction algorithm to ... 10/19/06 - 20060235770 - Products and processes for vending a plurality of products via defined groups Products and processes are disclosed for defining at least one inventory group. This at least one inventory group includes at least two products that are available for sale by a vending machine. The vending machine outputs an indication of products that the at least one inventory group includes. The vending ... 10/19/06 - 20060235769 - Automatic categorization and packaging method and system A method and a system for automatic categorization and packaging of the present invention that, based on pre-selected information, automatically arranges a plurality of cargoes on pallets to fill up spaces in the pallets that are not fully occupied, thereby effectively using storage spaces in cargo transport so as to ... 10/19/06 - 20060235768 - System, method, and computer program product for reducing the burden on inventory system by displaying product availability information for a range of parameters related to a product A system, method, and computer program product for providing results concerning product option availability via an interactive display. The invention generates data for display that shows product options in a multi-axis display wherein the axes correspond to at least two criteria related to the product options. The disclosed system also ... 10/05/06 - 20060224472 - Systems and methods for intelligent communicating storage of condition monitorable replaceable components An intelligent communicating supply storage unit is provided, tailored to storing one or more replaceable components for one or more supply-consuming devices. The storage unit may provide capabilities: (a) to sense a presence or absence of replaceable components for associated devices, which may include determining that the correct components are ... 10/05/06 - 20060224471 - Spindle with an rfid function A spindle with an RFID function includes a disc support and an RFID tag. The disc support has a bottom seat, and a positioning axle connecting to the bottom seat. The disc support is used to support discs in a disc production process. The RFID tag is installed inside or ... 09/28/06 - 20060218058 - System for managing customer orders The system of this invention manages customer orders using vendor supplied software systems interfaced on a real-time basis to touch the data in each system on a real-time basis. In effect, there is horizontal communication between the various components of the system such as inventory, purchasing, order management and receipt, ... 09/28/06 - 20060218057 - Vision-based measurement of bulk and discrete food products In a real time food production management system and method, real time data about consumers inside or in the vicinity of a food outlet and an amount of prepared food available to serve and/or an amount of food being prepared is electronically generated. Based on the real time data, a ... 09/28/06 - 20060218056 - Method for shippers to manage fuel costs A computer-implemented method for managing fuel costs, along with a corresponding apparatus, and a corresponding medium are described. The method includes receiving transaction information at a Network Administrator, the transaction information being associated with: (a) a shipper who has arranged for a shipment of goods from an origin to a ... 09/21/06 - 20060212370 - Cryptographic methods, apparatus and systems for storage media electronic rights management in closed and connected appliances A rights management arrangement for storage media such as optical digital video disks (DVDs, also called digital versatile disks) provides adequate copy protection in a limited, inexpensive mass-produceable, low-capability platform such as a dedicated home consumer disk player and also provides enhanced, more flexible security techniques and methods when the ... 09/21/06 - 20060212369 - Multiple dimension closings A computer implemented accounting system is provided facilitating multiple-dimension closings. A plurality of user-definable transaction dimensions can be selected as closing dimensions. Then, when a given accounting period is to be closed, closing journal entry lines and offsetting lines related to all unique combinations of closing dimensions are generated. ... 09/14/06 - 20060206397 - Cryptographic methods, apparatus and systems for storage media electronic right management in closed and connected appliances A rights management arrangement for storage media such as optical digital video disks (DVDs, also called digital versatile disks) provides adequate copy protection in a limited, inexpensive mass-produceable, low-capability platform such as a dedicated home consumer disk player and also provides enhanced, more flexible security techniques and methods when the ... 09/07/06 - 20060200392 - Cryptographic methods, apparatus and systems for storage media electronic rights management in closed and connected appliances A rights management arrangement for storage media such as optical digital video disks (DVDs, also called digital versatile disks) provides adequate copy protection in a limited, inexpensive mass-produceable, low-capability platform such as a dedicated home consumer disk player and also provides enhanced, more flexible security techniques and methods when the ... 09/07/06 - 20060200391 - System and method for tracking and managing transportation of specimens This invention is a system and method for tracking and managing transportation of specimens from a first location such as a medical office to a second location such as a testing lab for processing. A courier using a portable computing device can receive information representing that a specimen is ready ... 08/31/06 - 20060195371 - Method and system of communication for automated inventory systems 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 unit of the system occurs. To facilitate the integration of the automated inventory system into the client's computer network, the infrastructure is ... 08/31/06 - 20060195370 - Inventory management method, system, and computer program A method for identifying on-shelf availability of inventory items is provided. The method can comprise: collecting sales information comprising a Stock Keeping Unit (SKU), a sale date, and a sale quantity, from one or more sources; aggregating the sales information by calculating two or more measures comprising at least an ... 08/24/06 - 20060190363 - Managing home inventory In accordance with the present invention, a storage area is provided within a particular home for storing food-related items. A database of intended food-related inventory items for the storage area is adjusted by a controller according to food-related inventory preferences received at the controller. The controller updates the database of ... 08/24/06 - 20060190362 - Enhanced method and computer program product for providing supply chain execution processes in an outsourced manufacturing environment A method and computer program product for facilitating supply chain processes in an outsourced manufacturing environment is provided. The method includes a customer focus team system providing logistical administrative services for a contract manufacturer on behalf of a manufacturing enterprise. The customer focus team is assigned to the contract manufacturer ... 08/24/06 - 20060190361 - Method and system for managing inventory for a migration using forecast/inventory displays The invention provides one or more displays to assist a user in managing inventory for one or more migration components in a migration. In particular, forecast data for each migration component is generated based on migration data for one or more targets and a plurality of time frames. One or ... 08/24/06 - 20060190360 - System and method for controlling the transport of articles A system and method for controlling the transport of articles comprises in one embodiment one or more communication devices for receiving and transmitting data, at least one primary server in communication with the primary server for allocating couriers for the collection and delivery of articles, a program for controlling the ... 08/24/06 - 20060190359 - Consignment inventory management and reconciliation system A consignment inventory management and reconciliation method and system that tracks and reconciles on-hand quality which represents consignment items that were placed at the consignment location and are physically located at the consignment location at a given time; unbilled quantity which represents consignment items which were placed at the consignment ... 08/10/06 - 20060178955 - System and method for product imputation relating to sample stores Prescriptions are imputed or allocated to a non-reporting sample outlet in a universe of outlets that generally report prescription data to a database. Prescriptions are imputed or allocated based on the outlet's recent prescription or physician distribution. Prescription allocations to an outlet for a particular product in a product group ... 08/10/06 - 20060178954 - Iterative asset reconciliation process A multiphase matching process to reconcile imported asset records from a first legacy computer systems and inventory asset records which are either imported from a second legacy system or which are automatically discovered assets on a network of assets in a company or other entity by any automated asset discovery ... 08/10/06 - 20060178953 - System and method for identification of discrepancies in actual and expected inventories in computing environment having multiple provisioning orchestration server pool boundaries A system for establishing and maintaining inventories of computing environment assets comprising one or more custom collector interfaces that detect movement of assets from one environment to another, and an inventory scanner which modifies inventories for each environment based on monitored asset movements. The present invention is of especial benefit ... 08/03/06 - 20060173756 - Inventory management tracking control system An inventory management tracking control system includes a first event processor operative to receive a video data signal from at least one video capturing device, the video data signal including an archive attribute signal, relating an item being tracked; reader circuitry operative to generate an event attribute signal in response ... 07/27/06 - 20060167770 - Tool having an integral system for remotely ordering inventory A host tool having an integral system for ordering inventory from an inventory order interface has a processing unit, a location provider and a remote connector. The location provider is configured to selectively provide the location of the host tool to the processing unit, while the remote connector is configured ... 06/29/06 - 20060143097 - Process of sending access data to a vehicle mounted subscriber station for a special access mode to a service provider station A process provides access data to a transportable subscriber station, for establishing access to a service provider station. A first access mode which can be provided using first access data includes a first network that is accessible by means of a selectable network account, a first switching station, and a ... 06/22/06 - 20060136310 - Process for dynamic routing of customer contacts to service providers in real time A dynamic contact routing system includes establishing a plurality of service provider accounts. The service providers submit bids for a per-contact charge. A contact list is created wherein the service providers are ranked from the highest bidder to the lowest bidder. A contact received from a potential customer is routed ... 06/01/06 - 20060116936 - Inventory order fulfillment systems and methods A system and method which allows third-parties to monitor company inventory via the Internet and World Wide Web (“web”) and automatically order needed items. The present invention also provides a forum through which resellers and customers may directly interact to resell surplus and used equipment. The present invention may also ... 05/25/06 - 20060111989 - Inventory tracking and accounting system and method A system and method track inventory composed of a plurality of items is provided. The system and method includes the steps of establishing ownership of a first number of the items by a first owner, establishing ownership of a second number of the items by a second owner, disposing of ... 05/18/06 - 20060106684 - Cargo distribution management system, palette management system, and computer-readable storage medium and program used for them This invention provides a cargo distribution management system, a pallet management system, and a computer readable recording medium capable of facilitating reducing time required for distribution using containers by marine transport or the like, acquiring information for time reduction, and decreasing distribution cost. A cargo distribution management system program executed ... 05/11/06 - 20060100941 - Systems and methods for remote validation Systems and methods consistent with embodiments of the present invention provide for a method for remote data validation of shipment information. In some embodiments consistent with the present invention shipment information including at least one item identifier of an item in the shipment and at least one entity identifier of ... 05/11/06 - 20060100940 - Analyzing product portfolios Methods, systems, and computer programs for analyzing product portfolios are described. In one aspect, demand data, lead time data, and inventory data are received for a product portfolio comprising a set of finished products manufactured from a set of associated parts. A measure of inventory cost is computed for the ... 05/11/06 - 20060100939 - Method and system for managing commodity information in a supply chain of production The invention pertains to a method and system for managing commodity information as a commodity flows through a supply chain of production. ... 05/04/06 - 20060095347 - Software application for inventory data collection, validation and consolidation A software application includes program codes for executing a plurality of steps for collecting, processing and validating inventory data by a computer. The software application is used for maintaining accurate stock keeping information of a retail store, a warehouse or of any other location where inventory is stored. The software ... 05/04/06 - 20060095346 - System and method for inventory sharing across a multi-user network The present invention represents a web service that enables suppliers, distributors, retailers and wholesalers to share their physical inventories with each other and consumers. The database of the web service can contain products from multiple suppliers, wholesalers, and distributors and can also accept entries from retailers who may or may ... 04/27/06 - 20060089888 - Medical implant distribution method and system A method of supply of medical implants directly from an implant manufacturer to a hospital without going via a distributor, allows the manufacturer to sell an implant to the hospital at the same price as they would ordinarily sell to a distributor which provides the hospital with the implant at ... 04/20/06 - 20060085299 - Methods and systems for managing inventory by optimizing order quantity and safety stock Methods and systems consistent with the present invention facilitate inventory management by determining an order quantity and a safety stock based on the order quantity that provide a minimum total cost, while satisfying a service level over an entire demand period for a good or service. In one embodiment, a ... 04/20/06 - 20060085298 - Method of controlling product inventory A business method and system for executing the method that involves gathering merchandise orders at a show in the home of a hostess. The method compiles the merchandise orders while maintaining a relationship between each individual order and information pertaining to the guest making the order. The guest information maintains ... 04/20/06 - 20060085297 - Customer interaction with inventory via rfid Customer interaction with inventory via radio frequency identification (RFID) are disclosed, where a unique RFID is combined into ID cards, credit, debit, and smartcards. The current inventory RFID technology and RFID reader are moved into a place convenient to the end-user or customer to remove the need for cashiers. Some ... 04/20/06 - 20060085296 - Inventory modeling and management An inventory modeling and management system and method, within an inventory distribution system having multiple fulfillment nodes and distributing an inventory of multiple stock keeping units (SKUs), comprises determining whether there are inventory excesses and shortfalls for selected SKUs at selected fulfillment nodes, and analyzing the inventory excesses and shortfalls ... 04/20/06 - 20060085295 - Inventory mapping system and method The present specification relates to inventory management. More specifically, the system and method disclosed in the specification provide for mapping inventories. In one of many possible embodiments, an inventory mapping method involves assigning fixture codes to inventory fixtures. The fixture codes are indicative of positional relationships of the inventory fixtures ... 04/20/06 - 20060085294 - Method and system for catch-weight management A multiple transaction quantity inventory management system including an inventory management component to store and manage inventory information using a base unit of measure (“UOM”) and in a valuation UOM related by at least one conversion factor for each of a plurality of goods; a material management component connected to ... 04/20/06 - 20060085293 - System and method for processor-based inventory data collection and validation A system and method for collecting and validating inventory data is disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a processor-based inventory data collection system for efficiently collecting and validating inventory data includes a central processor coupled to a system bus. The central processor is adapted to receive the inventory data ... 04/20/06 - 20060085292 - Systems and methods for managing alcoholic beverages A systems and methods for managing alcoholic beverages, including separate operating levels. A first operating level, accessible to experts, includes a first database in which alcoholic beverage knowledge, including their respective service protocols, are indexed and stored and a first set of instructions for running the first database and communicating ... 04/20/06 - 20060085291 - Inventory management method, inventory management system, and inventory management program An inventory management method or system for controlling amounts of stocks is provided. The method comprises the steps of: storing delivery times and quantities of order lots accepted and restock lead times predetermined every item in a storage; selecting at least one order lot accepted, having a delivery time within ... 04/13/06 - 20060080190 - Method and system for storing goods trace information The present invention provides a goods trace information storing method comprising the steps of: acquiring identification information from an RFID (Radio Frequency Identifier) tag in each distribution level by an identification information read mechanism, and acquiring physical property information of goods, where the RFID tag is attached, by a physical ... 04/13/06 - 20060080189 - Commodity purchasing management system and method An automated commodity customer delivery driven method/system to manage commodity sales by acquiring a chance of purchase of a selecting customer as well as another new customer for a relevant commodity by assuring availability of the inventory for both customers of the relevant commodity. The shop inventory for the selecting ... 04/13/06 - 20060080188 - Supply-chain side assistance An apparatus, device, method, computer program product, and system that identifies an item having a presence within a geographic locale in response to a signal indicative of the item, obtains a first instance of a supply-chain assistance corresponding to the identified item from a first source and obtaining a second ... 04/06/06 - 20060074778 - Apparatus and method for process managing An apparatus for process management includes a unit that receives a planned number of a product to be produced on a production line operated by a tact system in a predetermined operating time. The unit calculates a plurality of delivery times included in the predetermined operating time, and the unit ... 04/06/06 - 20060074777 - System including a handheld device for checking inventory of vending machines A system for facilitating the monitoring and managing of the inventory of vending machines utilizing a handheld inventory checker capable of communicating with the vending machines to communicate therebetween data corresponding to the remaining inventory of each checked vending machine. The handheld inventory checker includes software to monitor the inventory ... 03/30/06 - 20060069629 - Methods and systems for redeploying stock in a distribution network Systems and methods are disclosed for redeploying stock between inventory locations. The systems and methods may include receiving a redeployment indication indicating stock to be redeployed and determining, based on the redeployment indication, the first inventory location for receiving the stock and the second inventory location for redeploying the stock. ... 03/30/06 - 20060069628 - Apparatus and method for generating reports from shared objects The invention includes a computer readable medium with executable instructions to generate a report. The executable instructions include executable instructions to supply a prompt group corresponding to a cascading prompt. A list of values is accessed to identify values to be supplied to the prompt group. Prompt presentation values are ... 03/09/06 - 20060053070 - Parts table management system, parts table preparation method and program The system comprises a design information management unit for storing the parts information including each part number to identify a product and a part of the product corresponding to the part number and the quantity of the product and a child part of the part, the subsidiary part information including ... 03/09/06 - 20060053069 - Total inventory management A method, system and program product to manage total inventory. Existing inventory, optimum inventory, excess inventory and inventory consumption are calculated according to different sets of data regarding whether one is considering a policy inventory and/or a manufacturing limitation. Results of the calculations with different sets of data are compared ... 03/09/06 - 20060053068 - Method and devices for automatically supplying material to a processing machine A processing machine, such as a printing press, is supplied with materials, such as rolls of paper, under the control of a control system. The control system is of a higher order than either of the material supply system and the processing machine. It is connected to both the supply ... 02/16/06 - 20060036516 - Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for performing product availability check A computer-implemented method of performing a product availability check comprises the step of receiving information on a plurality of first electronic data sets, each of which includes a first key and a product quantity in relation to a single point of time or time period. The first key includes a ... 02/16/06 - 20060036515 - Monitoring technology An apparatus for monitoring an article or system, particularly an LP or propane tank, includes a transmission unit, a base unit and a host unit. The transmission unit is disposed on or near the article or system and detects at least one parameter related to the article or system and ... 02/16/06 - 20060036514 - Dynamic selection and scheduling of radio frequency communications A system and method of tracking and reselling inventoried items is disclosed. This method includes assigning an audit code to an incoming inventoried item, wherein the audit code comprises a manual audit code and an automated audit code; auditing the incoming inventoried item to assess the incoming inventory item as ... 02/09/06 - 20060031148 - Handheld scanner device with display location database A method of managing inventory may include using a handheld scanning device to locate one or more inventory items on a retail display. The method may further include scanning the identification symbols of inventory items on a retail display to determine the type of the scanned item. An associated apparatus ... 01/19/06 - 20060015416 - System, method and computer program product for utilizing market demand information for generating revenue A system, method and computer program product are disclosed for risk management in a supply chain management framework. A supply chain manager is appointed for at least one buying supply chain participant. The supply chain manager is given authority to negotiate supply agreements for at least one good on behalf ... 01/19/06 - 20060015415 - Optimizing inventory in accordance with a constrained network In one embodiment, optimizing inventory includes accessing service level band sets. Each service level band set is associated with a policy group, and includes service level bands. Each service level band of a service level band set has a service level priority with respect to any other service level bands ... 01/19/06 - 20060015414 - Container inventory management systems, methods and tools An inventory management system configured for use in association with at least one container containing an amount of inventory material at a monitored location is provided. The system includes at least one measurement instrument operatively associated with the container, the measurement instrument being configured to generate at least one data ... 12/29/05 - 20050289021 - Utility model billing system for propane and heating oil consumers The invention describes a method whereby the measured consumption of propane and heating oil fuels can be used to provide a repetitive “utility style” billing method for consumers. The method involves the use of measurement methods that provide a close estimate of actual liquid volume in a fuel container and ... 12/29/05 - 20050289020 - Methods and systems for managing stock transportation Systems and methods are disclosed for providing stock visibility during transportation of stock from between storage facilities. Such systems and methods can provide information identifying the location of stock while it is being transported to a new location and can provide the ability to alter the destination of stock while ... 12/29/05 - 20050289019 - Method and system for tracking goods A method and system for tracking goods, etc., food products, which involves identifying the received goods at a specified location and thereafter assigning an encoded readable code to each of the goods which can be only accessed by authorized personnel responsible for handling the goods on through to and including ... 12/22/05 - 20050283412 - Lagre inventory-service optimization in configure-to-order systems 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, the emphasis is shifted to the components, or “building blocks”, which will still follow the build-to-stock scheme, due to their long ... 12/22/05 - 20050283411 - System and method for component inventory tracking with shipper identification codes Inventory management of plural components at an end user inventory is simplified by tracking components with shipment identification codes used to ship the components from a component vendor through a shipment vendor. A component order module associated with the end user places components orders with a component vendor order engine ... 12/08/05 - 20050273400 - Multi-node chipset lock flow with peer-to-peer non-posted i/o requests Systems and methods of managing transactions provide for receiving a first flush command at a first I/O hub, wherein the first flush command is dedicated to non-posted transactions. One embodiment further provides for halting an inbound ordering queue of the first I/O hub with regard to non-posted transactions in response ... 12/01/05 - 20050267821 - Address validation mode switch A system and method for interfacing a package processing system with an address hygiene system allows selection from a plurality of address hygiene systems. In one embodiment a user can manually select either a particular hygiene system or a set of address hygiene systems. In another embodiment a particular address ... 11/24/05 - 20050261993 - Method and/or system for customer/vendor data management and analysis Methods and/or systems for managing information between a customer and a vendor, for example using the Internet. According to specific embodiments of the invention, for example, during a sales or service provision transaction, a vendor includes in a vendor maintained database various information about the products supplied to a customer. ... 11/24/05 - 20050261992 - Managing a material batch Inventory may be managed by affixing to material batches respective documentary batch numbers that are associated with the material batches in a computer system. The material batches may be placed as inventory in a warehouse. The documentary batch number of any of the material batches that is removed from the ... 11/24/05 - 20050261991 - Monitoring and tracking system and method A hand-held data collector having a sensor, for example, a temperature sensor, a reader, for example, a bar code scanner, a user I/O device, a data processor in electrical communication with the sensor, the reader and the user I/O device and a transceiver unit in electrical communication with the data ... 11/17/05 - 20050256787 - Intelligent fulfillment agents A method for distributed inventory management includes receiving information regarding a number of participants in a value chain and information regarding one or more items relevant in the value chain. The method also includes modeling relationships between two or more of the participants based on the received information and modeling ... 11/17/05 - 20050256786 - System and method for communicating product information A system and method for empowering consumers in a retail environment. Among many other features, the present invention provides a number of menu and item list features to enhance a shopper's experience in a retail environment. In addition, the invention provides an item-level location mapping feature. By the use of ... 11/03/05 - 20050246248 - Mobile portal for radio frequency identification of objects A system utilizes radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to determine the precise location of assets within a large area or building. RFID tags are attached to the assets. A mobile RFID portal, which includes an RFID tag reader, is moved along a select path through the large area or building ... 11/03/05 - 20050246247 - Method and system for identifying rfid-tagged objects A system and method for identification of RFID-tagged items includes one or more interrogator units communicating over a network, the interrogator unit comprising a hanger support upon which RFID-tagged items are stored, the hanger support further comprising one or more solenoid coils aligned with the hanger support's longitudinal axis. The ... 11/03/05 - 20050246246 - Inventory and sales analysis tool Feedback is provided to employees regarding inventory levels or sales revenue levels. The feedback may alert, for example, inventory managers to inventory characteristics that call for analysis, investigation, and responsive action. A company may thereby better manage its inventory, save money, and more efficiently produce its products. ... 10/27/05 - 20050240497 - Method for determining optimal inventory lot sizes A novel method of optimizing an inventory lot size at least includes: a) determining fixed and variable costs associated with a given lot size; b) determining a sale price associated with the given lot size; c) determining a profit margin (PM) based on the results in a) and b); d) ... 10/27/05 - 20050240496 - Equipment management system The invention is a system and method of managing equipment. The system incorporates a tagging device to attach identification tags to each piece of equipment. A scanning device is used to read the identification tags and relay this information to an equipment server. An input device is used to input ... 10/27/05 - 20050240495 - Portal system for a controlled space Systems, devices, and methods are provided for monitoring and tracking an item in a controlled space. In one embodiment, a portal system that monitors the controlled space includes a radio frequency tag that is attached to inventory and a portal device, which includes a computing device, a receiver and a ... 10/20/05 - 20050234785 - Electronic shipping label with updateable visual display A novel shipping label is described that includes an electronically updateable visual display that can be updated throughout the shipping process to provide routing instructions to package handlers. Instructions shown on the updateable display can provide such information as an indication of a particular conveyor belt or vehicle or a ... 10/20/05 - 20050234784 - Container inventory management In various embodiments, an inventory management system is configured for use in association with at least one container containing an amount of inventory material at a monitored location. The inventory management system includes at least one measurement instrument operatively associated with the container, the measurement instrument being configured to generate ... 10/06/05 - 20050222921 - Incorporating a repair vendor into repair planning for a supply chain One embodiment includes a computer-implemented system for incorporating a repair vendor into repair planning for a supply chain. The system accesses a logical representation of the supply chain and identify one or more controlling locations and one or more staging locations in the supply chain. The system accesses information indicating ... 09/29/05 - 20050216375 - Method and system for flexible budgeting in a purchase order system A system and method of budgeting in a purchase order system are disclosed. The method of budgeting includes allocating a budget according to one or more planning levels and selecting or defining one or more keys, each key corresponding to one or more planning levels. ... 09/29/05 - 20050216374 - Smart giving program Disclosed herein is a system and method that generally comprises a management/technology consulting service provider (SP) that is a registered charitable organization, a donor, and one or more non-profit/charitable donees/recipients. The method of the present invention allows a donor to contribute funds and receive a basket of hours that may ... 09/29/05 - 20050216373 - System and method for electronically transmitting information at completion of live sales transaction Information concerning the subject of a live sales transaction between a purchaser and a seller is communicated electronically from the seller to the purchaser. By way of example, transmission may be to a device in the physical possession of the purchaser to an e-mail address or other location designated by ... 09/29/05 - 20050216372 - Systems and methods for planning a supply network in a managed supply chain Systems and methods are disclosed for planning a supply network for a product between a source location and a destination location in a managed supply chain. In one embodiment, a method is provided that comprises the steps of: creating a planned stock transfer order to cover demand from the destination ... 09/29/05 - 20050216371 - System and method for assortment planning A system, method and program product are provided for performing assortment planning. The comprises receiving data representing a plurality of articles, an assortment, and a display area. The method further comprises assigning a first subset of the plurality of articles to the assortment for a first validity period to define ... 09/29/05 - 20050216370 - Method for using a recovery trend parameter to determine an optimal forecast date The present invention discloses a method of modifying a production forecast in a fabrication facility using an optimal dynamic recovery trend parameter by performing the steps of: determining a plurality of PODs; determining a total accuracy of a plurality of recovery trend parameters used to predict each POD; performing a ... 09/29/05 - 20050216369 - Process for sorting recyclable material A system for sorting and processing recyclable materials includes a sorting station including a loading conveyor and a data collection area. Containers received from various distribution centers are loaded onto the load conveyor and moved to the data collection area. The contents of the container are recorded with corresponding weight ... 09/29/05 - 20050216368 - Systems and methods for managing product returns using decision codes Systems and methods are disclosed for processing a product return. The systems and methods may capture a disposition decision for the product return in a first management system and trigger, in response to the captured disposition decision, at least one process in a second management system. In one embodiment, the ... 09/29/05 - 20050216367 - System and method for virtual entity access Systems and methods applicable, for example, in allowing a user to come to possess a physical entity that allows for the receipt, use, access, and/or the like of a virtual entity (e.g., a media item, software, a service, data, and/or the like). A number of form factors for physical entities ... 09/29/05 - 20050216366 - Method and system for controlling spare parts inventory within a manufacturing plant A method and system for controlling spare parts inventory within a manufacturing plant by identifying and locating spare parts in the manufacturing plant. Signals representative of a spare parts search request from a user are transmitted to a base station. The base station processes the signals with inventory data to ... 09/22/05 - 20050209936 - Textile finishing temperature monitoring systems and method A system for monitoring temperatures in textile finishing operations includes a temperature sensing device (10). The device includes a module (40) therein which is operative to capture data corresponding to temperature sensed at a thermocouple (48) as the device moves through a tenter frame (54) in engagement with a web ... 09/22/05 - 20050209935 - Providing real world contexts to computer applications A method provides real world contexts to computer applications for outputting data describing one or more real world contexts. Components are identified in a computer application which implement instances of real world contexts and application components are updated so that a real world context instance is active during the execution ... 09/22/05 - 20050209934 - System, apparatus and process to provide, replenish, monitor, and invoice consignment inventory with retail customers A consignor and a retailer develop a consignment agreement for a consigned product. An inventory order is generated for stocking levels of the consigned product in a retailer's distribution system. An inventory quantity of the consigned product based on the inventory order is shipped out to the retailer's distribution system. ... 09/08/05 - 20050197929 - Inventory control apparatus A system and method which allows third-parties to monitor company inventory via the Internet and World Wide Web (“web”) and automatically order needed items. The present invention also provides a forum through which resellers and customers may directly interact to resell surplus and used equipment. The present invention may also ... 09/08/05 - 20050197928 - Method and system for product layout display using assortment groups A system, method and program product are provided for determining a product layout for a group of stores. An assortment is defined as a group of stores. An assortment version is defined by assigning a first product to the assortment for a time period, thereby determining the time period during ... 08/25/05 - 20050187836 - Method and apparatus for providing a proof of delivery verification for freight transportation systems A method and apparatus for providing a proof of delivery verification for freight transportation systems. A vehicle transmits an indication of arrival at a destination. A remote station receives the indication and validates the arrival of the vehicle. If the arrival is validated, a proof of delivery verification of a ... 08/25/05 - 20050187835 - Electronic acknowledgement of receipt of inventory A method for tracking status of an inventory shipment sent to a recipient includes monitoring whether the recipient has transmitted an electronic acknowledgment of the status of the shipment; and automatically transmitting a message to the recipient requesting acknowledgment of receipt of inventory if the electronic acknowledgment is not transmitted ... 08/25/05 - 20050187834 - On-line parts location and transaction system An integrated parts location and transaction system for original equipment manufacturer (OEM), non-OEM as well as aftermarket automobile parts is adapted to be integrated with business management computer system (BMS) software, currently used by automobile dealerships (210) as well as repair shops. All participating parts suppliers, including dealerships (210), and ... 08/25/05 - 20050187833 - Automated equipment management and reservation system The present invention provides an automated equipment management and reservation system that includes access to tools, information, and aids for managing an equipment rental business that is involved in in-town and one-way rentals. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the system provides the user with reservation information in several ... 08/18/05 - 20050182697 - Device management network that facilitates selective billing Aspects of the present invention may be seen in a device management (DM) network capable of associating billing codes with device management activities that involve transfer of data, upload or download of content, device management activities, reporting diagnostics messages, reporting alerts, reporting events, etc., in order to facilitate selective billing ... 08/18/05 - 20050182696 - System and method for automatically controlling inventory A method and system is provided for automatically controlling inventory. One or more point-of-sale businesses records sales and receipts for each item of inventory and transmits that information periodically (for example daily) to a database in a computer. This computer has software that acts as a “virtual buyer” in the ... 08/18/05 - 20050182695 - Retail marketing method A method is devised whereby a retailer may upgrade his operation by providing his suppliers (the vendors) with labeling standards including RFID and RSS bar code, guidelines for formatting and including in those labels additional supply chain logistical information, additional information including the item number, lot and expiration dates, the ... 08/11/05 - 20050177467 - Rotable inventory calculation method A method for conducting a repairable inventory analysis calculates the minimum number of repairable parts to be held in inventory while still being able to satisfy the demand for spare parts even in view of uncertain repair lead times. The method uses a set of equations that relates a customer ... 08/11/05 - 20050177466 - Method and apparatus for aggregation reconciliation through hierarchical tag checksums A hierarchical system of tag associations reduces latency and bandwidth consumption in an RFID or other environment. A method of electronically tracking a items (such as retail goods) stored in a container includes the broad steps of obtaining the electronic identifier for each of the items, computing a checksum or ... 08/11/05 - 20050177465 - Method for identifying product assets in a supply chain used to satisfy multiple customer demands A method, a system for practicing the method and a storage device storing the method for identifying product assets in a supply chain used to satisfy customer demands. The method including: receiving a feasible schedule of all components to be assembled into products; receiving customer schedules for delivery of the ... 08/04/05 - 20050171871 - Concentrated physical distribution system for cargo, and method therefor A concentrated physical distribution management system to be used in the delivery of ordered cargo to a destination is configured as a site capable of communicating mutually by using communication network lines. The site is provided with a database server. The internal processing section of the database server is composed ... 08/04/05 - 20050171870 - Concentrated physical distribution system for cargo, and method therefor A concentrated physical distribution management system to be used in the delivery of ordered cargo to a destination is configured as a site capable of communicating mutually by using communication network lines. The site is provided with a database server. The internal processing section of the database server is composed ... 08/04/05 - 20050171869 - Inventory management for postage supplies A mailpiece inventory management system. The system includes a franking machine, a mailpiece identification system coupled to the franking machine and a administration system adapted to communicate with the franking machine. There can be at least one mailpiece counter in the franking machine with each mailpiece counter associated with a ... 07/14/05 - 20050154653 - Adaptive network-centric online autonomic supply chain management system Provided is an agile, adaptive, globally deployable online network-centric autonomic supply chain management system that when triggered by a predictive/diagnostic condition management system, without user-maintainer intervention, autonomously authorizes a complete requisitioning cycle of supply chain assets to warfighters with unprecedented criticality of speed. A requisitioning cycle is comprised of: (1) ... 07/07/05 - 20050149413 - Systems and methods for virtual inventory management Disclosed is an integrated global shipment system that provides end-to-end visibility of the movement of a package. The integrated global shipment system employs a shipment consolidating application for integrating one or more freight tracking systems with one or more end-delivery systems. As a result, shippers are provided with complete visibility ... 07/07/05 - 20050149412 - System and method for capacity management and trading A system and method for capacity management and trading. The system includes at least a first capacity reserved for a first device design in a first capacity management cycle, a second capacity reserved for a second device design having a pull-in demand in a second capacity management cycle after the ... 06/23/05 - 20050137945 - Article managing apparatus In a print system having printers connected to a network, consumables of the printers are managed. A consumables price DB and a budget DB store prices of the consumables and a predetermined purchase money amount. A consumables use residual amount discriminating unit obtains consumables use residual amounts of the printers. ... 06/23/05 - 20050137944 - Automatic inventory management system An automatic inventory management system comprises an inventory management database to store inventory information useful in the inventory management and to include description, lead time, daily consumption quantity etc. of a plurality of resources; a maximum stock factor setting module to allow user to set a maximum stock factor; a ... 06/23/05 - 20050137943 - Method and system for assisting a search for articles within a storage facility A system and method facilitate searching for an article kept within a storage enclosure. The system includes tag detectors, item tags, and appearance data. Selection of an article for searching by a user enables retrieval of appearance data corresponding to the selected article so that the user may be aware ... 06/09/05 - 20050125313 - Integrated inventory management system A vehicle part inventory management system is provided for filling at least part of the vehicle part orders by one vehicle dealer from the inventory of another vehicle dealer. The inventory management system includes an ordered parts data structure for storing ordered parts information; an inventory data structure for storing ... 06/09/05 - 20050125312 - Rf point of sale and delivery method and system using communication with remote computer and having features to read a large number of rf tags A method and system for providing point-of-sale and point-of-delivery and/or distribution of products in a restricted access unit near the customer. The method and system utilize products equipped with radio frequency tags and reduce the effects of energy sharing, shadowing, and nulls. In one embodiment, a plurality of RF tagged ... 06/09/05 - 20050125311 - System and method for automated part-number mapping Automated mapping of part numbers associated with parts in a bill of materials (BOM) submitted by a BOM originator to internal part numbers assigned to those parts by a BOM receiver is performed by one or more computers connected to one or more networks through one or more network interfaces. ... 06/02/05 - 20050119951 - Computer-implemented methods and computer systems for managing and valuating inventory Methods and computer systems are provided managing and valuating inventory. In one embodiment, a computer system may assign every item of goods which is entering a working process to an identifier. The computer system may then track the goods in the working process. Further, the computer system may update a ... 06/02/05 - 20050119950 - Method and system for warehouse and supply chain management The present invention includes a method and system for interactively viewing, tracking, and managing stored inventory, for example, in centralized off-site locations, such as warehouses and shipping/receiving centers. The present invention allows the user to view and track every segment of the shipping history of a product stored in several ... 06/02/05 - 20050119949 - System and method for vendor managed subsidized supply pipeline for business continuity A system and method are described for establishing and managing a vendor inventory of emergency business supplies for a business. The vendor is compensated for costs of maintaining the inventory. The business supplies are released periodically, for discount sale, after they have been in the vendor inventory for a period ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |