Systems for, and methods of, providing information from a vendor to a customer relating to inventory
First Claim
1. In a method of providing to a first party an indication of transactions represented by transaction data at a second party displaced from the first party, the steps of:
- providing a databot at the second party, providing rules to the databot at the second party from the first body for the transmission of information from the second party to the first party relating to the transactions represented by the transaction data at the second party, and transferring from the second party to the first party, in accordance with the rules provided by the first party to the second party, information relating to the transactions represented by the transaction data at the second party.
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Abstract
Information is provided at a second party relating to its inventory of products. A first party programs a databot at the second party, in accordance with rules established by the first party, to have the second party specify to the first party at particular times the inventories of the individual ones of the different products supplied by the second party to the first party. In accordance with this programming, the second party provides to the first party at the particular times the information relating to the inventories of the different products at the second party. The first party may be a vendor or a customer (wholesaler or retailer) of the vendor and the second party may be the other one of the vendor or the vendor'"'"'s customer. Thus, the vendor can continuously maintain the inventory of the product at the vendor'"'"'s customer at a lean but efficient level.
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56 Claims
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1. In a method of providing to a first party an indication of transactions represented by transaction data at a second party displaced from the first party, the steps of:
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providing a databot at the second party, providing rules to the databot at the second party from the first body for the transmission of information from the second party to the first party relating to the transactions represented by the transaction data at the second party, and transferring from the second party to the first party, in accordance with the rules provided by the first party to the second party, information relating to the transactions represented by the transaction data at the second party. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. In a method of providing to a first party an indication of transactions represented by the transaction data at a second party displaced from the first party, the steps of:
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providing information at the second party relating to the transactions represented by the transaction data at the second party, providing a databot at the second party, providing a programming from the first party to the databot at the second party to have the second party specify to the first party at particular times the transactions represented by the transaction data at the second party, and providing to the first party at the particular times, in accordance with the programming provided to the second party, the information relating to the transactions represented by the transaction data at the second party. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 24)
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18. In a method of providing to a first party an indication of transactions represented by transaction data at a second party displaced from the first party, the steps of:
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providing an indication at the first party of the transactions represented by the transaction data at the second party, receiving at the first party a request from a customer for an indication of the transactions represented by the transaction data at the second party, receiving at the first party from the second party an indication of the transactions represented by the transaction data at the second party, and indicating to the customer the availability to the customer of the transactions represented by the transaction data on the basis of the transaction data at the second party. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25)
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26. In a method of providing to a first party an indication of transactions represented by transaction data at a second party displaced from the first party, the steps of:
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providing an indication at the second party of the transactions represented by the transaction data at the second party, providing at the second party a databot which is operative when activated to transmit to the first party the indication at the second party of the transactions represented by the transaction data at the second party, and activating the databot under the control of the first party to obtain the transmission from the second party to the first party of the indication of the transactions represented by the transaction data at the second party. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
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40. In a method of providing to a first party indications of transactions represented by transaction data at a second party displaced from the first party, the steps of:
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providing indications at the second party of the transactions represented by the transaction data at the second party, providing at the second party a databot which is operative when activated for a transmission to the first party of the indications at the second party of the transactions represented by the transaction data at the second party, and activating the databot under the control of the first party to obtain the transmission from the second party to the first party of the selected ones of the transactions represented by the transaction data at the second party. - View Dependent Claims (41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51)
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52. In a method of providing to a first party an indication of an inventory of a product at a second party displaced from the first party, the steps of:
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providing rules at the first party for the operation of the second party in indicating to the first party the inventory of the product at the second party, communicating to the first party the inventory of the product at the second party, receiving at the first party a request from a customer to receive at least one unit of the product, and providing to the customer from the first party an indication of the availability of the product at the first party in accordance with the inventory of the product at the first party and the inventory of the product at the second party. - View Dependent Claims (53, 54, 55, 56)
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