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A Method And System For Automatic Replenishment And Management Of Inventory

Abstract: A system and method for automatic replenishment and management of inventory determines residual level of one or more household commodities, provides information concerning the residual level of one or more household commodities to various vendors, and an users’ electronic device application using which the user can decide to place an order. The system includes plurality of sensor enabled commodity containers for inventory, communication boxes for receiving and further reporting current residual level of the one or more household commodities and a host server for integrating the received residual level information with one or more unique identifiers. Further, the host server provides the integrated information list to third parties without having any manual involvement in the whole process. Therefore, the host server may receive customized offer information concerning the integrated information list of one or more household commodities from the third parties which is then passed on to the users. An order to be placed directly with the third parties by the user.

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Patent Information

Application #
Filing Date
18 January 2016
Publication Number
43/2017
Publication Type
INA
Invention Field
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Status
Email
iprdel@lakshmisri.com
Parent Application

Applicants

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED
Nirmal Building, 9th Floor, Nariman Point, Mumbai-400021, Maharashtra, India

Inventors

1. SIRISILLA, Nataraj
Tata Consultancy Services Limited Plot No 1, Survey No. 64/2, Software Units Layout, Serilingampally Mandal, Madhapur, Hyderabad – 500081, Telangana, India
2. TOGARCHETI, Sowmya
Tata Consultancy Services Limited Plot No 1, Survey No. 64/2, Software Units Layout, Serilingampally Mandal, Madhapur, Hyderabad – 500081, Telangana, India

Specification

Claims:1. A computer implemented method for automatically maintaining an inventory of household commodity, the method comprising:

determining a residual level of one or more household commodities present in a plurality of containers;
transmitting an information of the residual level of the one or more household commodities present in the plurality of containers;
aggregating the received information of the residual level of the one or more household commodities by an aggregation module of a RetEx 2.0 Hub;
integrating the received information of the residual level of the one or more household commodities with one or more unique identifiers by an integration module of the RetEx 2.0 Hub;
providing the integrated information of the residual level of the one or more household commodities to one or more third parties by a transmitting module of the RetEx 2.0 Hub;
receiving a customized offer information at the receiver module of the RetEx 2.0 Hub based on the integrated information shared with the one or more third parties by the RetEx 2.0 Hub,
sharing the customized offer information based on the integrated information shared by the RetEx 2.0 Hub, with one or more users over an users’ electronic device by the transmitting module of the RetEx 2.0 Hub; and
placing a purchase order based on the customized offer information shared by RetEx 2.0 Hub directly with the one or more third parties by the user using the users’ electronic device.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of aggregating the information of the residual level of one or more household commodities from one or more communication boxes by the aggregation module of the RetEx 2.0 Hub.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of integrating the information of the residual level of the one or more household commodities with the one or more unique identifiers by the integration module of the RetEx 2.0 Hub, the unique identifiers includes, but not limited to, a unique communication box identification, a unique identification for house, a user’s location and a unique identification of the users’ electronic device.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of providing the integrated information of the residual level of the one or more household commodities to the one or more third parties by the transmitting module of the RetEx 2.0 Hub, the third parties include, but not limited to, one or more vendors and one or more advertising agencies.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of sharing the customized offer information of the residual level of the one or more household commodities, based on the integrated information shared by the RetEx 2.0 Hub, the customized offer information includes special discounts, retail offers which can include one or more retail items with the commodities.

6. A system for automatically maintaining an inventory of one or more household commodities, the system comprising:
a plurality of containers to store the one or more household commodities, wherein at least one sensor is attached to each of the plurality of containers to determine and transmit an information of residual level of the one or more household commodities in the plurality of containers; and
a RetEx 2.0 Hub, the RetEx 2.0 Hub further comprising,
a aggregation module to aggregate the information of the residual level of the one or more household commodities,
an integration module to integrate the aggregated information of the residual level of the one or more household commodities with one or more unique identifiers,
a transmitting module to provide the integrated information of the residual level of the one or more household commodities to one or more third parties,
a receiving module to receive customized offer information of the residual level of the one or more household commodities, and
a transmitting module to share the customized offer information of the residual level of the one or more household commodities, based on integrated information shared by the RetEx 2.0 Hub, to an users’ electronic device .

7. A system according to claim 6, wherein the plurality of containers are sensor enabled commodity containers for inventory.

8. A system according to claim 6, further comprising one or more communication boxes, wherein the one or more communication boxes are configured to receive information of the residual level of the one or more household commodities from the plurality of containers and to report the received information to the RetEx 2.0 Hub.

9. The system according to claim 6, wherein the integrating module of the RetEx 2.0 Hub integrates the aggregated information of the residual level of the one or more household commodities with the one or more unique identifiers, the unique identifier includes but not limited to unique communication box identification, unique identification for house, a user’s location and unique identification for the users’ electronic device.

10. The system according to claim 6, wherein the transmitting module of the RetEx 2.0 Hub provides the integrated information of the residual level of the one or more household commodities to the one or more third parties, the third party includes inventory vendors and advertising agencies.

11. The system according to claim 6, wherein the transmitting module of the RetEx 2.0 Hub transmit the customized offer information of the residual level of the one or more household commodities, based on the integrated information shared by the RetEx 2.0 Hub to the users’ electronic device, the users’ electronic device includes a mobile phone, an i-pod, a laptop.

12. The system according to claim 6, wherein the customized offer information of the residual level of the one or more household commodities, based on the integrated information shared by the RetEx 2.0 Hub, the customized offer information includes special discounts in price and other retail offers like attaching other retail items with the one or more household commodities.
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Documents

Application Documents

# Name Date
1 Form 5 [18-01-2016(online)].pdf 2016-01-18
2 Form 3 [18-01-2016(online)].pdf 2016-01-18
3 Form 18 [18-01-2016(online)].pdf 2016-01-18
4 Drawing [18-01-2016(online)].pdf 2016-01-18
5 Description(Complete) [18-01-2016(online)].pdf 2016-01-18
6 REQUEST FOR CERTIFIED COPY [03-03-2016(online)].pdf 2016-03-03
7 201621001689-POWER OF AUTHORITY-(03-03-2016).pdf 2016-03-03
8 201621001689-CORRESPONDENCE-(03-03-2016).pdf 2016-03-03
9 Form 3 [06-09-2016(online)].pdf 2016-09-06
10 Abstract1.jpg 2018-08-11
11 201621001689-Form 3-020516.pdf 2018-08-11
12 201621001689-Form 1-220116.pdf 2018-08-11
13 201621001689-Correspondence-220116.pdf 2018-08-11
14 201621001689-Correspondence-020516.pdf 2018-08-11
15 201621001689-FER.pdf 2019-12-31
16 201621001689-Information under section 8(2) [19-05-2020(online)].pdf 2020-05-19
17 201621001689-FORM 3 [11-06-2020(online)].pdf 2020-06-11
18 201621001689-OTHERS [26-06-2020(online)].pdf 2020-06-26
19 201621001689-FER_SER_REPLY [26-06-2020(online)].pdf 2020-06-26
20 201621001689-DRAWING [26-06-2020(online)].pdf 2020-06-26
21 201621001689-COMPLETE SPECIFICATION [26-06-2020(online)].pdf 2020-06-26
22 201621001689-CLAIMS [26-06-2020(online)].pdf 2020-06-26
23 201621001689-ABSTRACT [26-06-2020(online)].pdf 2020-06-26
24 201621001689-US(14)-HearingNotice-(HearingDate-11-01-2024).pdf 2023-12-18
25 201621001689-Correspondence to notify the Controller [21-12-2023(online)].pdf 2023-12-21
26 201621001689-FORM-26 [10-01-2024(online)].pdf 2024-01-10
27 201621001689-Written submissions and relevant documents [24-01-2024(online)].pdf 2024-01-24

Search Strategy

1 Search_strategy_201621001689_31-12-2019.pdf