System for Managing Expiration-Dated Products

• US 20150310385A1
• Filed: 04/23/2015
• Published: 10/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: E Smart Labels, LLC
• Original Assignee: E Smart Labels, LLC
• Inventors: Artz, Brian K., King, Christopher Harold
• Application Number:
  US14/694,104
• Publication Number:
  US 20150310385A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders

Abstract

A system for managing expiration-dated products that includes, among other things, a computer, an electronic label in communication with the computer, and a program product comprising machine-readable program code for causing, when executed, the computer to transmit a data set containing expiration date information to the electronic label.

Claims

1. A system for managing expiration-dated products comprising:

a computer;

an electronic label in communication with the computer; and

a program product comprising machine-readable program code for causing, when executed, the computer to transmit a data set containing expiration date information to the electronic label.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the computer has a user interface.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the computer is selected from the group consisting of a desktop, a laptop and a smart device.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the electronic label has a display for displaying text of the data set.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the electronic label has a display for displaying a number of the data set.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the electronic label has a display for displaying an image of the data set.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the electronic label has a display for displaying colors of the data set selected from the group consisting of red, yellow, green, black and white.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the electronic label has a display for displaying a clock icon of the data set.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the system includes a container for containing expiration-dated products, the electronic label being adapted for attachment to the container.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the computer is in communication with a network of one or more additional computers.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the computer is in communication with the Internet.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the computer is in communication with a cloud network.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the computer is in communication with a cloud network for providing dynamic pairing with the electronic label.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the computer is in communication with a text alerts device to provide notifications about the data set.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the computer is in communication with a printer for printing labels containing expiration date information.

16. The system of claim 1, wherein the program product has a menu editor.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the menu editor has features selected from the group consisting of accounts, locations, categories, items and batches.

18. The system of claim 1, wherein the program product has a user interface for the selection of categories of items and specific items.

19. The system of claim 1, wherein the program product has a print menu.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the print menu has features selected from the group consisting of a label preview display, a label ID display, a print to electronic label display, a print to direct thermal label display, a batch print display and a repack/reprint display.

21. The system of claim 19, wherein the program product allows for the recognition of the electronic label and displays information about the electronic label on the print menu.

22. The system of claim 1, wherein the electronic label includes an autonomous battery.