System and method for demand driven collaborative procurement, logistics, and authenticity establishment of luxury commodities using virtual inventories
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1. A system comprising:
- a virtual inventory comprising inventory information from a plurality of disparate collections of items, wherein the virtual inventory is an aggregated inventory containing all of the items in each disparate inventory and wherein the contents of each disparate inventory comprises a subset of the virtual inventory;
an inventory trading device for determining items for sale and purchasing the items for sale;
a classifier device for classifying items into at least one category configured to disambiguate nomenclature variations for the same items by finding canonical manes of the items, comparing the canonical names to different names for the same items, storing the items by their respective canonical names, and separately storing unfamiliar names in an exception list for manual processing; and
a collaboration device to allow an owner of each disparate collection of items to offer items from a disparate collection for sale indicate items that the owner desires to purchase; and
a global provenance catalogue comprising at least data regarding the provenance and stewardship of items in the virtual inventory;
wherein each disparate collection is connected to the virtual inventory by a computer network or a telephone network.
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Abstract
Systems and methods providing for a virtual inventory system of goods aggregating disparate inventories into a single virtual inventory for the purpose of tracking the goods, trading the goods, and establishing authenticity of the goods. The aggregation of disparate inventories readily provides for quick procurement or sales of the goods, especially as they relate to high end, rare, or expensive items. Accordingly, electronic product codes are assigned to each good to monitor inventory and movement of the good.
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22 Claims
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1. A system comprising:
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a virtual inventory comprising inventory information from a plurality of disparate collections of items, wherein the virtual inventory is an aggregated inventory containing all of the items in each disparate inventory and wherein the contents of each disparate inventory comprises a subset of the virtual inventory; an inventory trading device for determining items for sale and purchasing the items for sale; a classifier device for classifying items into at least one category configured to disambiguate nomenclature variations for the same items by finding canonical manes of the items, comparing the canonical names to different names for the same items, storing the items by their respective canonical names, and separately storing unfamiliar names in an exception list for manual processing; and a collaboration device to allow an owner of each disparate collection of items to offer items from a disparate collection for sale indicate items that the owner desires to purchase; and a global provenance catalogue comprising at least data regarding the provenance and stewardship of items in the virtual inventory; wherein each disparate collection is connected to the virtual inventory by a computer network or a telephone network. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method comprising:
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offering to a plurality of entities a virtual inventory tool to maintain individual inventory information for each entity'"'"'s disparate collection of items, wherein the virtual inventory is an aggregated inventory containing all of the items in each entity'"'"'s disparate inventory and wherein the contents of each disparate inventory comprises a subset of the virtual inventory determining, by an inventory trading device, items for sale and purchasing items for sale; classifying, by a classifier device, items into at least one category, disambiguating, by the classifier device, nomenclature variations for the same items by finding canonical manes of the items, comparing, by the classifier device, the canonical names to different names for the same items, storing, by the classifier device, the items by their respective canonical names, and separately storing, by the classifier device, unfamiliar names in an exception list for manual processing; allowing, by a collaboration device, an owner of each disparate collection of items to offer items from the disparate collection for sale indicate items that the owner desires to purchase; and comprising, by a global provenance catalogue, at least data regarding the provenance and stewardship of items in the virtual inventory; determining, by an order sourcing device, sourcing options for placed orders based on at least one of the sellers'"'"' geography, amount of an order the seller is able to fill, and the sellers'"'"' reputation; allowing each entity to add to, remove, or change the contents of the entity'"'"'s disparate collection of items, wherein each item in each disparate is uniquely identified from each other item in the virtual inventory; wherein each disparate collection is connected to the virtual inventory by a computer network. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A non-transitory machine readable medium having instructions stored thereon for performing the steps comprising:
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offering to a plurality of entities a virtual inventory tool to maintain individual inventory information for each entity'"'"'s disparate collection of items, wherein the virtual inventory is an aggregated inventory containing all of the items in each entity'"'"'s disparate inventory and wherein the contents of each disparate inventory comprises a subset of the virtual inventory and wherein the virtual inventory comprises; an inventory trading tool for determining items for sale and purchasing items for sale; a tool for classifying items into at least one category configured to disambiguate nomenclature variations for the same items by finding canonical manes of the items, comparing the canonical names to different names for the same items, storing the items by their respective canonical names, and separately storing unfamiliar names in an exception list for manual processing; a collaboration tool to allow an owner of each disparate collection of items to offer items from the disparate collection for sale indicate items that the owner desires to purchase; and a global provenance catalogue comprising at least data regarding the provenance and stewardship of items in the virtual inventory; an ordering tool configured to determine sourcing options for placed orders based on at least one of the sellers'"'"' geography, amount of an order the seller is able to fill, and the sellers'"'"' reputation; allowing each entity to add to, remove, or change the contents of the entity'"'"'s disparate collection of items, wherein each item in each disparate is uniquely identified from each other item in the virtual inventory; wherein each disparate collection is connected to the virtual inventory by a computer network. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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