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US 10,552,896 B2Granted
Method and system for virtual inventory management
AssigneeThe Fisher Family Dynasty Trust
InventorsKevin Roundtree, Trent Fisher, Robert Lord
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Abstract
Methods and systems for virtually managing product inventory from an application on a smart device through at least one of a bar code scanning feature, an integration of a virtual toolbox component and a shopping cart component, and a checkout selection option to request a purchase order associated with a user token authorization.
Claims16
A method for virtually managing a product inventory from an application on a smart device, the method comprising:
- entering a login to the application on a graphical user interface (GUI) of the smart device by a user;
- receiving a user token authorization based on the login;
- selecting a product from the product inventory to generate a selected product associated with the user token authorization, wherein the product is selected from one or more search options on the GUI, the one or more search options comprising:
- a product search option in a virtual toolbox of the application, the virtual toolbox configured to store one or more products from the product inventory, wherein selecting the product from the product inventory comprises:
- monitoring the product by one or more electronic sensors associated with the product and configured to provide notification of product malfunction;
- generating an alert notification of product malfunction upon the product malfunction;
- presenting the user with a re-order alert based on the alert notification of product malfunction;
- and selecting the product upon generation of the re-order alert one of automatically or by the user;
- receiving detail of a maximum stock level associated with the selected product;
- receiving detail of a current inventory level associated with the selected product;
- subsequent to generating the re-order alert, generating a recommended order quantity as the order quantity based on the maximum stock level and the current inventory level;
- adding the order quantity of the selected product associated with the user token authorization to a virtual shopping cart as an order, wherein the virtual shopping cart is configured for integration with the virtual toolbox such that selection of the selected product from the virtual toolbox is configured to generate an option to auto-populate the virtual shopping cart with the selected product;
- and
- processing the order.
11 more elements
A system for virtually managing a product inventory from an application on a mobile smart device, the system comprising:
- a server;
- and
- the mobile smart device comprising:
- a processor communicatively coupled to the server;
- and
- a non-transitory computer-readable memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor and through the application, cause the processor to:
- receive a login to the application through a graphical user interface (GUI) of the mobile smart device by a user;
- receive a user token authorization from the server based on the login;
- receive a selection of a product from the product inventory to generate a selected product associated with the user token authorization, wherein the product is selected from one or more search options on the GUI, the one or more search options comprising:
- a product search option in a virtual toolbox of the application, the virtual toolbox configured to store one or more products from the product inventory, wherein the selection from the product inventory comprises:
- monitoring the product by one or more electronic sensors associated with the product and configured to provide notification of product malfunction;
- generating an alert notification of product malfunction upon the product malfunction;
- presenting the user with a re-order alert based on the alert notification of product malfunction;
- and selecting the product upon generation of the re-order alert one of automatically or by the user;
- receive detail of a maximum stock level associated with the selected product;
- receive detail of a current inventory level associated with the selected product;
- subsequent to generating the re-order alert, generate a recommended order quantity as the order quantity based on the maximum stock level and the current inventory level;
- add the order quantity of the selected product associated with the user token authorization to a virtual shopping cart as an order, wherein the virtual shopping cart is configured for integration with the virtual toolbox such that selection of the selected product from the virtual toolbox is configured to generate an option to auto-populate the virtual shopping cart with the selected product;
- and
- process the order.
17 more elements
A system for virtually managing a product inventory from an application on a mobile smart device, the system comprising:
- a server;
- and
- the mobile smart device comprising:
- a processor communicatively coupled to the server;
- and
- a non-transitory computer-readable memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor and through the application, cause the processor to:
- receive a login to the application through a graphical user interface (GUI) of the mobile smart device by a user;
- receive a user token authorization from the server based on the login;
- receive a selection of a product from the product inventory to generate a selected product associated with the user token authorization, wherein the product is selected from one or more search options on the GUI, the one or more search options comprising:
- a product search option in a virtual toolbox of the application, the virtual toolbox configured to store one or more products from the product, wherein the selection from the product inventory comprises:
- monitoring the product by one or more electronic sensors associated with the product and configured to provide notification of product malfunction;
- generating an alert notification of product malfunction upon the product malfunction;
- presenting the user with a re-order alert based on the alert notification of product malfunction;
- and selecting the product upon generation of the re-order alert one of automatically or by the user;
- receive detail of a maximum stock level associated with the selected product;
- receive detail of a current inventory level associated with the selected product;
- subsequent to generating the re-order alert, generate a recommended order quantity as an order quantity based on the maximum stock level and the current inventory level;
- add the order quantity of the selected product associated with the user token authorization to a virtual shopping cart as an order;
- and
- process the order.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.