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Toilet management systems, methods, and techniques

  • US 8,970,391 B2
  • Filed: 12/13/2011
  • Issued: 03/03/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A toilet management system comprising:

  • a toilet monitoring component for monitoring toilet unit usage information for multiple toilet units;

    a reporting component for reporting the toilet unit usage information to a user;

    an interface for communicating to the user through a network via one of an email, a text message, a webpage, and a smart phone application; and

    a user interface to display a recommendation to the user indicating which of the multiple toilet units to use based on the toilet unit usage information;

    wherein the reporting component combines and consolidates the toilet unit usage information from the multiple toilet units and generates the recommendation to the user regarding which toilet unit to use based on selecting a toilet unit associated with a longest time since the toilet unit was last occupied or selecting a toilet unit associated with a least number of occupants since a last maintenance or cleaning; and

    wherein the reporting component provides the toilet unit usage information to the user interface to display the recommendation showing, for each toilet unit, two visual dials indicating an amount of time elapsed since a last occupancy of the toilet unit and a number of occupants since the last maintenance or cleaning.

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