Smartphone-based asset management system

US9805331B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG · DE
• The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · US

Inventors

• Cheng-Hsin Hsu · Taipei, TW
• Kyu-Han Kim · Palo Alto, US
• Jatinder Pal Singh · Mountain View, US
• David M. Chen · Brookline, US
• Sam Tsai · Taipei, TW
• Bernd Girod · Spardorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 9, 2011
• Grant date: Oct 31, 2017
• Expiry date: Feb 7, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/087
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method of tracking an inventory of objects via a mobile communications device includes acquiring an image of one or more of the objects via the mobile communications device, which also collects a location of the mobile communications device while acquiring the image of the one or more of the objects. The location and image are transferred from the mobile communications device to a remote server via a wireless network, such that the one or more of the objects are identified at the server based on the image, and the location and identity of the one or more objects are stored on a database associated with the server.