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Managing inventory purchases

  • US 6,430,541 B1
  • Filed: 04/28/2000
  • Issued: 08/06/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for managing inventory purchases, said method comprising the steps of:

  • receiving a meal plan having at least one meal associated with a designated time, said meal plan including items necessary for preparing said at least one meal;

    monitoring, at a computer system, a current inventory;

    determining whether said items of said received meal plan are absent from said current inventory;

    automatically transmitting search requests for said absent items from said computer system, based on stored user preferences and based on when said absent items are to be received for use in preparing said least one said meal at said designated time, to a plurality of independent product databases each respectively associated with one of a plurality of retailers; and

    automatically transmitting a purchase request to a particular retailer based on a result of said search requests, such that inventory purchases are managed by said computer system.

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