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Managing home inventory

  • US 7,930,221 B2
  • Filed: 03/29/2006
  • Issued: 04/19/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A system for managing inventory, said system comprising:

  • a processor;

    an interconnect coupled to said processor; and

    a computer-usable storage medium embodying computer program code, said computer-usable storage medium being coupled to said interconnect, said computer program code comprising instructions executable by said processor and configured for;

    receiving food-related inventory preferences for each of a plurality of users for a particular storage area that monitors current food-related inventory in said particular storage area;

    adjusting a current database of intended food-related inventory for said particular storage area according to said food-related inventory preferences;

    periodically receiving records of additions and removals of food-related items from said particular storage area at said controller;

    determining a selection of food-related items from among said current database of intended food-related inventory that are absent from said particular storage area based at least in part on said records, such that food-related inventory that is intended for said particular storage area is managed;

    receiving, at a universally accessible server system, a request from a provider of food-related items for said selection of food-related items that are absent from said particular storage area, said request identifying the particular storage area with a identifier uniquely associated with said particular storage area; and

    permitting access to said selection of food-related items by said provider of food-related items if said provider of food-related items is included in a plurality of allowable requesters for said particular storage area.

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