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US 9,754,238 B2Granted
Warehouse management system
AssigneeHoj Engineering & Sales Co., Inc.
InventorsRobert Glen Lyon, Clinton Furse
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Abstract
A warehouse management system can include pick platforms, each having an identifier associated therewith. A mobile computing device can be associated with a pick platform based on the identifier and may be associated with one of the pick platforms at a time. A director computing device can be in communication with the mobile computing device and can transmit pick instructions to the mobile computing device based on a currently associated pick platform.
Claims19
A warehouse management system, comprising:
- a plurality of pick platforms, wherein a first pick platform has a first configuration and a second pick platform has a second configuration different from the first configuration;
- an identifier associated with each pick platform, the identifier being a visual or digital identifier carried by each pick platform, each pick platform having a different identifier than another of the pick platforms;
- a mobile computing device capable of being associated with one of the plurality of pick platforms at a time based on the identifier, the mobile computing device being configured to capture the identifier optically or as a signal using a detector of the mobile computing device to associate the mobile computing device with the one of the plurality of pick platforms;
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- a director computing device in communication with the mobile computing device to receive the association of the mobile computing device with the one of the plurality of pick platforms and configured to select between the first pick platform and the second pick platform based on the first and second configurations and further based on pick instructions, the director computing device being further configured to transmit the pick instructions to the mobile computing device currently associated with the selected first or second pick platform.
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A warehouse management system, comprising:
- a plurality of pick platforms:
- an identifier associated with each pick platform, the identifier being a visual or digital identifier carried by each pick platform, each pick platform having a different identifier than another of the plurality of pick platforms:
- a director computing device in communication with a mobile computing device to receive the association of the mobile computing device with a first pick platform of the plurality of pick platforms and configured to:
- dissociate the mobile computing device from the first pick platform when the mobile computing device is associated with the first pick platform;
- associate the mobile computing device with a second pick platform based on the identifier associated with the second pick platform, wherein the identifier of the second pick platform is captured optically or aa a signal using a detector of the mobile computing device;
- identify a configuration of a currently associated pick platform;
- determine pick instructions based on the configuration;
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- provide pick instructions for display on the mobile computing device associated with the pick platform.
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A warehouse management system, comprising:
- a plurality of pick platforms;
- an identifier associated with each pick platform, the identifier being a visual or digital identifier carried by each pick platform, each pick platform having a different identifier than another of the plurality of pick platforms;
- a mobile computing device capable of being associated with one of the plurality of pick platforms at a time based on the identifier, the mobile computing device being configured to capture the identifier optically or as a signal using a detector of the mobile computing device to associate the mobile computing device with the one of the plurality of pick platforms, the mobile computing device further comprising an association module configured to associate the mobile computing device with the one of the plurality of pick platforms;
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- wherein pick instructions for display on the mobile computing device are provided based on a configuration of a currently associated pick platform.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.