US 2024/0281871 A1Published application

System and method for electronically associating an item to a rack that stores the item

Assignee7-Eleven, Inc.

InventorsShahmeer Ali Mirza, Matthew O'Daniel Redmond

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Abstract

A system includes a rack that stores a plurality of packs of cigarettes, a display device associated with the rack and a circuit board associated with the rack. The circuit board includes a network interface, a processor and a memory storing rack information, wherein the display device displays a code associated with the rack information. The processor is configured to receive an indication that a scanner has scanned the code, and in response, establish communication with the scanner. The processor receives a universal product code (UPC) associated with a pack of cigarettes scanned by the scanner and maps a rack number of the rack to the UPC. The processor updates the rack information in the memory by adding the UPC mapped to the rack number of the rack, wherein the code is associated with the updated rack information.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system, comprising:

a rack that stores a plurality of packs of cigarettes;
a display device associated with the rack and positioned in front of the rack;
and
a circuit board associated with the rack and comprising:
a memory that stores information relating to the rack, wherein the information comprises a rack number of the rack, a number of packs stored in the rack and a first universal product code (UPC) associated with a type of the packs stored in the rack, wherein the display device displays a code associated with the information relating to the rack;
a network interface;
and
a processor communicatively coupled to the memory, the network interface, and the display device, wherein the processor is configured to:
receive using the network interface, an indication that a scanner has scanned the code associated with the rack;
in response to receiving the indication, establish communication with the scanner using the network interface;
transmit to the scanner at least a portion of the information relating to the rack;
receive from the scanner a second UPC associated with a pack of cigarettes scanned by the scanner for loading into the rack;
map the rack number of the rack to the second UPC received from the scanner;
and
transform the information relating to the rack by adding to the information the second UPC mapped to the rack number, wherein the code is associated with the transformed information.

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A system, comprising:

a rack that stores a plurality of items;
a display device associated with the rack and positioned in front of the rack;
and
a circuit board associated with the rack and comprising:
a memory that stores information relating to the rack, wherein the information comprises a rack number of the rack, a number of items stored in the rack and a first universal product code (UPC) associated with a type of the items stored in the rack, wherein the display device displays a code associated with the information relating to the rack;
a network interface;
and
a processor communicatively coupled to the memory, the network interface, and the display device, wherein the processor is configured to:
receive using the network interface an indication that a scanner has scanned the code associated with the rack;
in response to receiving the indication, establish communication with the scanner using the network interface;
transmit to the scanner at least a portion of the information relating to the rack;
receive from the scanner a second UPC associated with an item scanned by the scanner for loading into the rack;
map the rack number of the rack to the second UPC received from the scanner;
and
transform the information relating to the rack by adding to the information the second UPC mapped to the rack number, wherein the code is associated with the transformed information.

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A method for transforming information relating to a rack, comprising:

receiving using a network interface, an indication that a scanner has scanned a code associated with the rack, wherein:
the rack stores a plurality of packs of cigarettes;
wherein the code is displayed by a display device associated with the rack and positioned in front of the rack;
the code is associated with the information relating to the rack;
and
the information relating to the rack comprises a rack number of the rack, a number of packs stored in the rack and a first universal product code (UPC) associated with a type of the packs stored in the rack;
in response to receiving the indication, establishing communication with the scanner using the network interface;
transmitting to the scanner at least a portion of the information relating to the rack;
receiving from the scanner a second UPC associated with a pack of cigarettes scanned by the scanner for loading into the rack;
mapping the rack number of the rack to the second UPC received from the scanner;
and
transforming the information relating to the rack by adding to the information the second UPC mapped to the rack number, wherein the code is associated with the transformed information.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.