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Wide area inventory control system

US6401076B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateApr 29, 1997
Grant dateJun 4, 2002
Priority date
Expiry dateApr 29, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06Q20/203
  • WIPO fieldIT methods for management
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An inventory control system in which local units having inventories continually and serially transmit data only in a local area to users having portable receivers which store and display when requested the inventory status of a particular item. The local units also transmit to a central computer their current inventory status so that additional local units may request inventory status in another local area from the central computer.

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