Garment tags for intelligent laundering alerts

• US 10,692,349 B2
• Filed: 05/31/2019
• Issued: 06/23/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Original Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Inventors: Glasgow, Dane, Ramadge, David, Selhorst, Bria, Sherman Stewart, Corinne, MacLaurin, Matthew Bret, Carlson, Timothy
• Primary Examiner(s): Pham, Toan N
• Application Number:
  US16/427,817
• Publication Number:
  US 20190371153A1
• Time in Patent Office: 389 Days
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 93/00 Counting, sorting, or marking arrangements specially adapted for laundry purposes
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 93/005 Marking arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/027 the material being suitable for use as a textile, e.g. woven-based RFID-like labels designed for attachment to laundry items markings attached to laundry items in general D06F93/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07 with integrated circuit chips
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10366 the interrogation device being adapted for miscellaneous applications
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06398 Performance of employee with respect to a job function
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/18 Status alarms G08B21/02 takes precedence

Abstract

Aspects of the present disclosure involve an apparatus, systems, and methods for providing intelligent alerts for garments. Garment attribute data describing a plurality of garments is accessed. An alert condition is detected based on the garment attribute data. A human-detectable sensory alert is provided in response to detecting the alert condition.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a machine-readable memory storing garment attribute data describing a plurality of garments, the garment attribute data comprising a threshold temperature for laundering a garment from among the plurality of garments; and

an alert component configured to detect an alert condition based on the threshold temperature for laundering the garment, the alert component further configured to provide a human-detectable sensory alert in response to detecting the alert condition.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a detector configured to obtain at least a portion of the garment attribute data.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the garment attribute data farther comprises one or more of:

a fabric type, a color, a washing machine attribute, a bleaching attribute, a clothes dryer attribute, an ironing attribute, and a dry-cleaning attribute.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the threshold temperature corresponds to a temperature for washing the garment from among the plurality of garments.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the threshold temperature corresponds to a temperature for drying the garment from among the plurality of garments.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the alert condition is based on a laundering device being used to launder the garment from among the plurality of garments.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the alert condition is based on a fabric type or color of the garment from the plurality of garments.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the alert component comprises a light emitting component, and wherein the human-detectable sensory alert comprises a luminescent alert.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the alert component comprises a speaker, and wherein the human-detectable sensory alert comprises an auditory alert.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the alert component comprises a haptic actuator, and wherein the human-detectable sensory alert comprises a haptic alert.

11. A method comprising:

storing, by a machine-readable memory, garment attribute data describing a plurality of garments, the garment attribute data comprising a threshold temperature for laundering a garment from among the plurality of garments;

detecting, by one or more hardware processors, an alert condition based on the threshold temperature for laundering the garment; and

providing, by an alert component, a human-detectable sensory alert in response to detecting the alert condition.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the garment attribute data further comprises one or more of:

a fabric type, a color, a washing mach attribute, a bleaching attribute, a clothes dryer attribute, an ironing attribute, and a dry-cleaning attribute.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the threshold temperature corresponds to a temperature for washing the garment from among the plurality of garments.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the threshold temperature corresponds to a temperature for drying the garment from among the plurality of garments.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the alert condition is based on a laundering device being used to launder the garment from among the plurality of garments.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the alert condition is based on a fabric type or color of the garment from the plurality of garments.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein the human-detectable sensory alert comprises a luminescent alert.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein the human-detectable sensory alert comprises an auditory alert.

19. The method of claim 11, wherein the human-detectable sensory alert comprises a haptic alert.

20. A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by at least one hardware process, cause the at least one hardware processor to perform operations comprising:

accessing garment attribute data describing a plurality of garments, the garment attribute data comprising a threshold temperature for laundering a garment from among the plurality of garments;

detecting an alert condition based on the threshold temperature for laundering the garment; and

causing a human-detectable sensory alert to be provided in response to detecting the alert condition.