Alcoholic beverage allocation machine

• US 9,292,827 B2
• Filed: 02/17/2012
• Issued: 03/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Rain Effect, LLC
• Original Assignee: Rain Effect, LLC
• Inventors: Musa, John A., Hall, Gary N.
• Primary Examiner(s): Zeender, Ryan
• Assistant Examiner(s): Buchanan, Christopher
• Application Number:
  US13/399,886
• Publication Number:
  US 20120150674A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,495 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0875 Itemisation or classification of parts, supplies or services, e.g. bill of materials
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/203 Inventory monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0283 Price estimation or determination
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting

Abstract

Various methods and systems such as in a software application are presented which may include automated purchase recommendations based on amalgamated purchase constraints (4) for business inventory maintenance, notation of events through noted event entry portals (31) for business related observation recordation, automatic facilitation of regular debut of initial suggested industry tied information (50), presentation of business performance data (65) and disparate substantially redundant business performance data (67) in a business performance display (66) for a summary review of business operations, and easy selection of inventory items (83) from a recommended hierarchical categorization of inventory items which may be used to create buying reports, ad hoc reports, and the like.

Claims

1. An intelligent product allocation facilitator device for product purchasing recommendations based on spontaneous spur of the moment supplier incentives comprising:

an intelligent product allocation facilitator device comprising a processor capable of executing subroutines in an automated business information system, said processor configured to;

receive point-of-sale data information into said intelligent product allocation facilitator device;

calculate and automatically display initial suggested industry tied information each time said automated business information system is used;

wherein said initial suggested industry tied information comprises a business performance display of business performance data together with disparate redundant business performance data;

display a one-click calendar display;

receive user input from said one-click calendar display of a time frame of inventory item data information for a particular purchase decision;

display an inventory category selection display with a recommended hierarchical categorization of inventory items;

receive user input of at least two selected inventory items from a plurality of inventory items in said inventory category selection display having said recommended hierarchical categorization of inventory items;

display an automatically generated inventory item display of a plurality of user-selected inventory items based on said user input of said selected inventory items and said user input from said one-click calendar display;

wherein said automatically generated inventory item display comprises a display of a current individual store based comparison percentage mixture purchase constraint for said selected inventory items and at least one historical individual store based comparison percentage mixture purchase constraint for said selected inventory items;

receive user input of a selected purchase constraint from one of said purchase constraints in said inventory item display;

display a non-algorithm, spontaneously-based, multiple inventory item grouped deal term user entry portal;

receive user input of a user-entered, non-algorithm, spontaneously-based, multiple inventory item grouped deal term; and

display an automatically allocated purchase recommendation based on said user selection of one of said purchase constraints and said user-entered, non-algorithm, spontaneously-based, multiple inventory item grouped deal term;

store, retrieve, and display a user entered singular, non-trend, daily, noted event associated with business sales information;

display events selected from a group consisting of enforcement issues, general, sporting event, special event, special promotion, traffic, distribution, deals, and weather;

receive user input for cumulative deal tracking information and display said cumulative deal tracking information; and

receive purchase deal term entries from a user and display cumulative deal tracking.

2. An intelligent product allocation facilitator device for product purchasing recommendations based on spontaneous spur of the moment supplier incentives according to claim 1 wherein said processor is further configured to display a review enticement element within said intelligent product allocation facilitator device.

3. An intelligent product allocation facilitator device for product purchasing recommendations based on spontaneous spur of the moment supplier incentives according to claim 1 wherein said initial suggested industry tied information comprises a display of a table of said business performance data and a graph of said disparate redundant business performance data.

4. An intelligent product allocation facilitator device for product purchasing recommendations based on spontaneous spur of the moment supplier incentives according to claim 1 wherein said initial suggested industry tied information comprises a display of multitrend business performance data selected from the group consisting of sales data, customer data, and average purchase data.

5. An intelligent product allocation facilitator device for product purchasing recommendations based on spontaneous spur of the moment supplier incentives according to claim 1 wherein display said inventory category selection display comprises an alternative description entry portal.

6. An intelligent product allocation facilitator device for product purchasing recommendations based on spontaneous spur of the moment supplier incentives according to claim 1 wherein said display said inventory category selection display with said recommended hierarchical categorization of inventory items comprises display at least one stratum and an inventory item list in said inventory category selection display.

7. An intelligent product allocation facilitator device for product purchasing recommendations based on spontaneous spur of the moment supplier incentives according to claim 1 wherein said processor is further configured to display an ad hoc reporting category selection display based on at least one selected inventory item from said inventory category selection display.

8. An intelligent product allocation facilitator device for product purchasing recommendations based on spontaneous spur of the moment supplier incentives according to claim 7 wherein said display said ad hoc reporting category selection display comprises display a one-click ad hoc report element.

9. An intelligent product allocation facilitator device for product purchasing recommendations based on spontaneous spur of the moment supplier incentives according to claim 8 wherein said display one-click ad hoc report element comprises display a graph display.

10. An intelligent product allocation facilitator device for product purchasing recommendations based on spontaneous spur of the moment supplier incentives according to claim 1 wherein said display one-click calendar display comprises a display of appropriate time frames selected from a group consisting of a day, a week, a month, a year, a range of dates, selected analysis dates, selected start analysis date, selected stop analysis date, suggested analysis dates, suggested start analysis date, suggested stop analysis date, and any combination thereof.

11. An intelligent product allocation facilitator device for product purchasing recommendations based on spontaneous spur of the moment supplier incentives according to claim 8 wherein said display one-click ad hoc report element comprises display a drill down report display.