Inventory control system process

• US 8,577,759 B2
• Filed: 07/16/2012
• Issued: 11/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Worthwhile Products
• Original Assignee: Worthwhile Products
• Inventors: Solomon, Stanley B.
• Primary Examiner(s): ADE, OGER GARCIA
• Application Number:
  US13/550,521
• Publication Number:
  US 20120271742A1
• Time in Patent Office: 477 Days
• Field of Search: 705/30
• US Class Current: 705/30
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 1/127 the circuit being confined in a vertical plane
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 1/137 with arrangements or automatic control means for selecting which articles are to be removed
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 2209/04 Indication location means
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders

Abstract

The inventory control system process includes storing product information in a database. Location information is also accepted and stored in the database in association with the product information. The system receives a command associated with the database and analyzes the command for an instruction and one or more keywords. Next, the database is searched for one or more products associated with the one or more keywords. A list of products related to the one or more keywords is then displayed. The system then accesses, modifies, retrieves, or deletes database information in response to the instruction.

Claims

1. An inventory control system process, comprising the steps of:

storing product information in an electronic database;

securing a universal remote for use in association with the electronic database with biometric data;

authenticating a request to access the electronic database through the universal remote with the biometric data;

accepting location information through the universal remote for storage in the electronic database in association with the product information;

receiving a command associated with information in the electronic database through the universal remote;

analyzing the command for an instruction and one or more keywords;

searching the electronic database for one or more products associated with the one or more keywords; and

generating a list of products related to the one or more keywords in the command for display on the universal remote, and

accessing, modifying, retrieving or deleting information in the electronic database in response to the instruction.

2. The process of claim 1, including the step of categorizing the product information and the location information in a hierarchal electronic database.

3. The process of claim 2, wherein the searching step includes simultaneously searching multiple levels of the hierarchal electronic database.

4. The process of claim 1, including the step of reading a barcode or communicating with a data transmission device associated with the product.

5. The process of claim 4, including the step of populating the electronic database with information from the barcode or the data transmission device.

6. The process of claim 1, including the step of assigning the product a sequential number.

7. The process of claim 6, including the step of programming a local barcode or a local data transmission device with the sequential number.

8. The process of claim 1, including the step of communicating information between the electronic database and the universal remote.

9. The process of claim 8, including the step of receiving the command through a microphone integrated into the universal remote.

10. The process of claim 8, wherein the universal remote wirelessly communicates with the electronic database.

11. The process of claim 1, wherein the biometric data comprises a thumbprint, a retina, or a facial feature.

12. The process of claim 11, wherein the authenticating step includes the step of scanning the thumbprint, the retina or the facial feature.

13. The process of claim 1, wherein the location information comprises a physical location and a product location at the physical location.

14. The process of claim 13, including the step of printing a barcode selectively attachable to the physical location or the product location.

15. The process of claim 13, wherein the physical location comprises a GPS coordinate.

16. The process of claim 1, wherein the command comprises a verbal command, a keyboard entry or a touch screen entry.

17. The process of claim 1, including the step of correlating a field number with the product information.

18. The process of claim 1, including the step of customizing a line item field in the electronic database.

19. The process of claim 1, including the step of updating the product quantity after modifying, retrieving or deleting information in the electronic database.

20. The process of claim 1, wherein the generating step includes the step of retrieving a photograph of the product, a photograph of the physical location of the product, a UPC code, or a product description.