Systems and methods for enabling information management incorporating a personal computing device

US7966228B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Mercatus Technologies Inc. · CA

Inventors

• R. Sylvain Perrier · Ottawa, CA
• Russell Harper · Oak Brook, US
• Robin Harrison · Powell River, CA
• Michael Fedorov · King City, CA
• Jiang Zhao · Windsor, CA
• Denys Montuzenko · Mississauga, CA
• Robert Segal · Toronto, CA
• Harold Springer · Toronto, CA
• Jeremy List · Ottawa, CA
• Lucy List · Newmarket, CA

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 28, 2006
• Grant date: Jun 21, 2011
• Expiry date: Jul 14, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/0641
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer-readable mediums provide for storing location information of a plurality of products, receiving information from a remote electronic device, wherein the received information includes information relating to a position of the remote electronic device and identifying information of one of the plurality of products, and updating the location information of the one of the plurality of products with the position of the remote electronic device. Alternatively, systems, methods, and computer-readable mediums provide for obtaining location information of a plurality of products at an electronic device and position information of the electronic device, and transmitting the obtained location information of the one of the plurality of products and the position of the electronic device to a remote computing device, wherein the location information of the one of the plurality of products is updated at the remote computing device with the position of the electronic device.