US 7,797,204 B2Granted

Distributed personal automation and shopping method, apparatus, and process

OwnerBruce F. Balentinventor

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Abstract

A business method utilizing a system comprising one or more distributed computers, application software, off-the-shelf peripheral components including keyboard-and-mouseless data entry (KDE) devices, business processes, human and KDE device readable data, related information on removable data storage media or available from external databases, and existing communications systems for speeding and improving: 1) personal or business automation, efficiency and productivity, goal attainment; 2) improving, speeding and automating the person-computer interface; 3) selection, acquisition, and tracking usage of items acquired from an existing supply chain; 4) marketing items and retaining customers buying the products, controlling their usage, and disseminating information about the products.

Claims9

Dependent claims

A system for a user to manage the buying and/or selling of goods or services identified with a code for managing a completion of tasks, attendance at events and appointments, said system comprising:

at least one data entry device for reading said code;
at least one programmable data processor including a CPU, memory and nonvolatile data storage, and input/output peripherals, in communication with said data entry device, further including:
(1) means for receiving input from the user and entering the input into said data processor;
(2) software for manipulating, sorting, categorizing goods or services and/or adding information associated with particular goods, services, event, appointment, and tasks from said input peripherals;
(3) means for providing output to the user responsive to said user's command;
(4) means for storing data concerning said goods, services, events, appointments and tasks forming a database accessible by the user whereby the system provides automated collection, storage, sorting and/or manipulation, and output of data concerning goods and services being purchased, tasks to be accomplished, events to be attended and appointments to keep.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/315,905Filed 9 Dec 2002 · us provisional application
Priority: 8 Dec 2001
Published: US 2003/0158796 A121 Aug 2003
Granted: 14 Sep 2010
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G06Q 30/06
Commerce: buying, selling or leasing transactions
G06Q 10/087
Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management: inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling,…
G06Q 10/08774
By inventory control or reporting using inventory tracking or counting: using consumer inventory reporting
G06Q 30/0633
Electronic shopping [e-shopping]: managing shopping lists, e.g. compiling or processing purchase lists