INVENTORY CONTROL SYSTEM PROCESS

• US 20110153614A1
• Filed: 03/02/2011
• Published: 06/23/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Worthwhile Products
• Original Assignee: Worthwhile Products
• Inventors: Solomon, Stanley B.
• Application Number:
  US13/039,215
• Publication Number:
  US 20110153614A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/740
• 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 a database;

accepting location information for storage in the database in association with the product information;

receiving a command associated with information in the database;

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

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

displaying a list of products related to the one or more keywords in the command, and accessing, modifying, retrieving or deleting information in the 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 database.

3. The process of claim 2, wherein the searching step includes simultaneously searching multiple levels of the hierarchal 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 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 transmissions device with the sequential number.

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

11. The process of claim 8, including the step of securing the universal remote with biometric data.

12. The process of claim 11, wherein the biometric data comprises a thumbprint scan, a retinal scan or a facial scan.

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 database.

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

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