Liquid product identification for dispensing in storage tanks
First Claim
1. A system for confirming that a liquid product is to be dispensed into a storage tank from a tanker compartment before dispensing the liquid product, comprising:
- a wand computing device configured to generate a liquid product identification signal when positioned within proximity of a storage tank tag associated with a storage tank, wherein the liquid product identification signal identifies the liquid product contained in the storage tank;
a dispense monitoring computing device configured to;
identify each liquid product contained in each tanker compartment included in a tanker transport trailer as provided by a liquid product dispense database, wherein each liquid product initially loaded into each tanker compartment is uploaded into the liquid product dispense database;
determine whether the liquid product identified by the liquid product identification signal matches the liquid product identified as being contained in each tanker compartment as provided by the liquid product dispense database; and
generate a signal to notify an operator of an appropriate tanker compartment to dispense a liquid product contained in the appropriate tanker compartment into the storage tank when the liquid product identified by the liquid product identification signal matches the liquid product as being contained by the appropriate tanker compartment indicating that the liquid product contained in the appropriate tanker compartment is the same as the liquid product contained by the storage tank.
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Abstract
A system for confirming that a liquid product is to be dispensed into a storage tank from a tanker compartment before dispensing the liquid product is disclosed. A wand computing device generates a liquid product identification signal that identifies the liquid product contained in the storage tank when positioned within proximity of a storage tank tag associated with the storage tank. A dispense monitoring computing device attempts to match the liquid product identified by the liquid product identification signal to the liquid products identified as contained in tanker compartments. The dispense monitoring computing device generates a signal to notify the operator that an appropriate tanker compartment contains liquid product that is the same as the liquid product contained by the storage tank and can be dispensed into the storage tank when the liquid product contained by the storage tank matches the liquid product contained by the appropriate tanker compartment.
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26 Claims
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1. A system for confirming that a liquid product is to be dispensed into a storage tank from a tanker compartment before dispensing the liquid product, comprising:
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a wand computing device configured to generate a liquid product identification signal when positioned within proximity of a storage tank tag associated with a storage tank, wherein the liquid product identification signal identifies the liquid product contained in the storage tank; a dispense monitoring computing device configured to; identify each liquid product contained in each tanker compartment included in a tanker transport trailer as provided by a liquid product dispense database, wherein each liquid product initially loaded into each tanker compartment is uploaded into the liquid product dispense database; determine whether the liquid product identified by the liquid product identification signal matches the liquid product identified as being contained in each tanker compartment as provided by the liquid product dispense database; and generate a signal to notify an operator of an appropriate tanker compartment to dispense a liquid product contained in the appropriate tanker compartment into the storage tank when the liquid product identified by the liquid product identification signal matches the liquid product as being contained by the appropriate tanker compartment indicating that the liquid product contained in the appropriate tanker compartment is the same as the liquid product contained by the storage tank. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method for confirming that a liquid product is to be dispensed into a storage tank from a tanker compartment before dispensing the liquid product comprising:
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identifying a liquid product contained in the storage tank from a liquid product identification signal generated by a wand computing device when the wand computing device is positioned within proximity of a storage tank tag associated with the storage tank; identifying each liquid product contained in each tanker compartment included in a tanker transport trailer as provided by a liquid product dispense database, wherein each liquid product initially loaded into each tanker compartment is uploaded into the liquid product dispense database; determining whether the liquid product identified by the liquid product identification signal matches the liquid product identified as being contained in each tanker compartment as provided by the liquid product dispense database; and generating a signal to notify an operator of an appropriate tanker compartment to dispense a liquid product contained in the appropriate tanker compartment into the storage tank when the liquid product identified by the liquid product identification signal matches the liquid product identified as being contained by the appropriate tanker compartment indicating that the liquid product identified as being contained in the appropriate tanker compartment is the same as the liquid product contained by the storage tank. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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