WO2003025704B1 - Automated delivery and inventory status notification system and method - Google Patents

Automated delivery and inventory status notification system and method

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WO2003025704B1
WO2003025704B1 PCT/US2002/029544 US0229544W WO03025704B1 WO 2003025704 B1 WO2003025704 B1 WO 2003025704B1 US 0229544 W US0229544 W US 0229544W WO 03025704 B1 WO03025704 B1 WO 03025704B1
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alert
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Chon Meng Wong
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06Q—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • G06Q10/00—Administration; Management
    • G06Q10/08—Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06Q—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • G06Q10/00—Administration; Management
    • G06Q10/08—Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management
    • G06Q10/087—Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W84/00—Network topologies
    • H04W84/18—Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

An automated, flexible and programmable system to update delivery and inventory status for an aggregate of remote mailboxes (27), bins, shelves, sorter bins, and/or a plurality of bins to distant customers and vendors through email, pager, personal digital assistant (PDA), cellular phone mail, voice mail at call centers and/or web site mailboxes. It can function as a delivery notice to mailbox recipients or as inventory stock management to store owners and vendors at remote locations. Various sensors (23, 24) mounted on flexible circuit boards (22) located on the mailboxes (27), bins, or shelves together with distributed microcontrollers report status through a common bus to a master controller and then to a computer system. The computer in turn dispatches reports and information to various owners and vendors via a remote network operation center accessed through a dedicated line, a wireless service or an Internet Service Provider. The frequency of report update, changing of locations of update, and the relational database can also be reprogrammed at any time from a remote central service location.

Claims

[received by the International Bureau on 27 May 2003 (27.05 03) original claims 1, 2, 13, 14 and 15 amended; New claim 27 added; other claims unchanged (4 page)]
1. A system for notifying of one of the presence and absence of at least one of an object and a fluid, comprising: a plurality of containers; a plurality of sensor units, each sensor unit associated with one of said containers, each sensor unit comprising at least one sensor configured to detect said one of the presence and absence of said at least one of an object and a fluid within said one of said containers; at least one microcontroller connected to some of said plurality of sensor units; a first bus connected to said at least one microcontroller; a second bus connected to said first bus; a computer connected to said second bus; and a signaling mechanism connected to said computer, said signaling mechanism configured to provide an alert in response to said one of the presence and absence of said at least one of an object and a fluid in each of said plurality of containers; wherein said at least one microcontroller communicates with said computer through said first bus and said second bus.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein said first bus operates at a first speed and said second bus operates at a second speed, the first speed being different from the second speed.
3. The system of claim 1, further comprising a master embedded controller interposed between said computer and said at least one microcontroller.
4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a receiving mechanism capable of receiving said alert; said receiving mechanism is one of: an email receiver, a web message center, a wireless telephone, a land line telephone, a SMS messaging device, a pager, a personal digital assistant, a broadcast receiver, and a voice mailbox.
5. The system of claim 4, wherein said receiving mechanism is configured to provide an acknowledgement in response to receiving said alert.
6. The system of claim 1 wherein said at least one sensor is one of: an optical sensor, a light sensor, a pressure sensor, a weight sensor, a capacitance sensor, a magnetic sensor, a hall effect sensor, a float sensor, a heat sensor, a temperature sensor, a motion sensor, and an acoustic sensor.
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7. The system of claim 1, wherein said sensor unit comprises a flexible circuit board.
8. The system of claim 1 wherein said sensor unit is associated with a unique address.
9. The system of claim ls further comprising a database containing data representing one of: an email address, a pager address, a personal digital assistant address, a cellular phone number, a call center address, and a web site URL; wherein said signaling mechanism is configured to provide an alert consistent with said data.
10. The system of claim 9, wherein said database is a relational database; said relational database containing a set of customizable rules; wherein said signaling mechanism is configured to provide an alert consistent with said customizable rules.
11. The system of claim 1, wherein each of said sensor units is configured to identify at least one property of said at least one of an object and a fluid.
12. The system of claim 11 wherein said property is one of size, shape, weight, dielectric properties, magnetic properties, and volume.
13. The system of claim 1 wherein said at least one microcontroller is configured to communicate with said computer using at least one serial protocol.
14. A method for notifying of one of the presence and absence of at least one of an object and a fluid, comprising: supplying a container configured to hold the one of an object and a fluid; sensing, by a sensor unit associated with the container, the one of the presence and absence of the at least one of an object and a fluid; forwarding, in response to said sensing, a first signal to a microcontroller connected to the sensor unit; sending on a first bus, in response to the first signal, a second signal from the microcontroller to a second bus; sending on the second bus, in response to the second signal, a third signal to a computer; and providing an alert in response to the third signal; wherein the alert is indicative of the one of the presence and absence of the at least one of an object and a fluid.
15. The method of claim 14, wherein said sending on a first bus occurs at a first speed and said sending on the second bus occurs at a second speed that is different from the first speed.
16. The method of claim 14, further comprising sending to a master embedded controller interposed between the computer and the microcontroller.
17. The method of claim 14, further comprising receiving the alert at a receiving mechanism, said receiving mechanism being one of: an email receiver, a web message center, a wireless telephone, a land line telephone, an SMS messaging device, a pager, a personal digital assistant, a broadcast receiver, and a voice mailbox.
18. The system of claim 17, further comprising providing an acknowledgement in response to said receiving.
19. The method of claim 14 wherein said sensing senses at least one of light, pressure, weight, capacitance, magnetism, hall effect, float position, heat, temperature, motion, and sound.
20. The method of claim 14, wherein the sensor unit comprises a flexible circuit board.
21. The method of claim 14 wherein the sensor unit is associated with a unique address.
22. The method of claim 14, wherein said providing comprises providing the alert consistent with data representing one of: an email address, a pager address, a personal digital assistant address, a cellular phone number, a call center address, and a web site URL.
23. The method of claim 22, wherein said providing further comprises providing the alert consistent with a set of customizable rules.
24. The method of claim 14, wherein said sensing comprises sensing at least one property of the at least one of an object and a fluid.
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25. The method of claim 24 wherein said at least one property is one of size, shape, weight, dielectric properties, magnetic properties, and volume.
26. The method of claim 14 wherein said sending comprises sending using a serial protocol.
27. A system for notifying of the presence of material, the system comprising: a plurality of storage locations; a plurality of sensor units, each sensor unit associated with one of said plurality of storage locations, each sensor unit comprising at least one sensor configured to detect the presence of material within said one of said plurality of storage locations; at least one controller connected to some of said plurality of sensor units; a computer connected to said controller; and a signaling mechanism connected to said computer, said signaling mechanism configured to provide an alert in response to the presence of material in each of said plurality of containers.
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