Resumen de: WO2016139364A1

A method of controlling reefer container resources in a reefer container system comprising a remote server computer (101) in communication with a plurality of reefer containers is provided. Each reefer container (201) comprises a refrigeration system configured to control a climate of an interior cargo compartment (202) of the reefer container (201). The method comprises, at the remote server computer (101): obtain refrigeration system parameter data acquired during operation of the refrigeration system from at least one reefer container (201) via a server communication unit (103), analyse the refrigeration system parameter data (706) to estimate a reefer container condition, comprising a physical pre-trip inspection determination, provide the reefer container condition to a reefer container resource control unit (105) to allocate the reefer container (201) based on the reefer container condition. A certainty indicator may indicate if the condition is a trusted condition.

Resumen de: FR3129748A1

La présente invention concerne un procédé et un dispositif de communication de données relatives à au moins une partie d’un véhicule entre un premier dispositif (E) d’un réseau de communication centralisé (NET1) et un deuxième dispositif (R) d’un autre réseau de communication centralisé (NET2). Le procédé met en œuvre un partage de données entre les premiers et deuxième dispositifs par utilisation d’une technologie dite de chaîne de blocs mise en œuvre par un nombre prédéterminé de dispositifs d’un réseau de communication distribué (NET3) associés au premier dispositif et un même nombre de dispositifs du réseau de communication distribué associés au second dispositif. Figure pour l’abrégé : Figure 1

Resumen de: US2023169450A1

A tool for dynamically booking, from an autonomous transportation vehicle, a secondary transportation vehicle. The tool identifies a route for the autonomous transportation vehicle transporting one or more products from a first location to a second location. The tool publishes the one or more products online as available for purchase. The tool identifies a customer order for the one or more products. The tool requests a secondary transportation vehicle to deliver the one or more products to fulfill the customer order. The tool instructs the secondary transportation vehicle to retrieve the one or more products to fulfill the customer order from the autonomous transportation vehicle. The tool instructs the secondary transportation vehicle to deliver the one or more products from the autonomous transportation vehicle to a delivery location to fulfill the customer order.

Resumen de: US2023169462A1

An automated inventory management method is provided. Historical sales states of multiple stores are received, and models of each store and each category of products are pre-trained by a pre-training module. States of each store and each category of products are obtained by a multi-store-multi-category training module, and horizontal and vertical relevance training based on the pre-trained models of each store and each category of products is conducted. Relevance between stores, horizontal relevance between categories of products, and vertical relevance between multiple stores and multiple categories of products are determined by a state analysis module, so that multiple stores and categories of products with high correlation are linked to modify expected sales of each store and each category of products. Orders for multiple categories of products in each store are placed and purchase volumes of multiple categories of products in each store are determined by an inventory decision module.

Resumen de: WO2022046982A1

An autonomous delivery system configured to provide optimized delivery for packages and provide services to multiple locations along a path. The delivery system includes a vehicle capable of autonomously driving and providing the packages and/or services required.

Resumen de: FR3129756A1

La présente invention concerne un procédé et un dispositif de suivi de livraison d’un premier véhicule à un deuxième véhicule. A cet effet, un objet débarqué du premier véhicule et embarqué dans le deuxième véhicule est détecté à partir de données représentatives de cet objet. De telles données sont par exemple reçues par un dispositif (22) embarqué dans le premier véhicule et dans le deuxième véhicule, le dispositif (22) étant configuré pour lire les données stockées sur une radio-étiquette (23) associée à l’objet. La sortie de l’objet du premier véhicule est vérifiée à partir de ces ces données et le chargement de l’objet dans le deuxième véhicule est également vérifiée à partir de ces données. Figure pour l’abrégé : Figure 2

Resumen de: US2023169453A1

A processor may receive storage space information associated with an agile storage space. In some embodiments, the agile storage space may include one or more smart storage spaces. A processor may analyze the storage space information associated with the agile storage space. A processor may determine if an amount of one or more objects exceeds a storage threshold. In some embodiments, the amount of the one or more objects is based, at least in part, on the storage space information. A processor may assign the one or more objects to the one or more smart storage spaces. In some embodiments, assigning the one or more objects to the one or more smart storage spaces may be based, at least in part, on the storage threshold and the storage space information.

Resumen de: US2023169454A1

An article search support system 1 includes an arithmetic device configured to: create information on a history of processing of a plurality of articles 210 and a history of processing of an inclusion containing at least one of the plurality of articles 210 entailing the processing of the at least one article 210; create related information 14 chronologically storing processing targeting the article 210 and the inclusion or including the article 210 and the inclusion as targets by associating the processing of the article 210 with the processing of the inclusion containing the article 210 based on the created information on the history of each processing; receive an article 210 or inclusion input from a user; search the created related information 14 for information on processing associated with the input article 210 or inclusion and targeting the article 210 or the inclusion or including the article 210 or the inclusion as a target; and output the searched processing information.

Resumen de: US2023165657A1

A system and method for performing a package status check are provided, including a scanner for use in a surgical field and having an antenna for emitting a radio frequency detection field, the scanner including control circuitry configured to determine a predetermined quantity of sponges corresponding to a complete pack of sponges; count a number of sponges associated with the pack with the scanner prior to use of the sponges in a surgical field; and issue an alert when a number of counted sponges does not match the predetermined quantity corresponding to the complete pack. The system and method may include the control circuitry configured to determine whether a sponge has been re-scanned or is unknown by comparing detected information with previously detected information prior.

Resumen de: US2023169449A1

The present disclosure is directed generally to trailer validation systems and, more particularly, to systems capable of verifying that a trailer is associated with the proper loading dock station. In some embodiments, a trailer validation system includes a display, a processor operably connected to the display, a communication device operably coupled to the processor, and a non- transitory computer-readable medium containing instructions for operating the trailer validation system. The display screen can be positioned on a trailer or at a loading dock. The communication device can receive information related to an identity of the trailer. The instructions can be executed by the processor to cause the display to display at least a portion of the information. When the display is positioned at the loading dock, the displayed information can be readable by a device mounted to the trailer to enable the trailer to identify the loading dock station.

Resumen de: US2023169458A1

A system and method for managing inventory in a dispensing cabinet includes a mobile terminal, and an association station configured to associate the mobile terminal with an item type stored in the dispensing cabinet. The association station receives, from the mobile terminal, an indication of a respective item unit of the first item type being moved, determines an access status of one or more containers of the dispensing cabinet when the indication is received, determines a container location for the item unit based on the access status of the containers and receiving the indication of the respective item being moved from the first mobile terminal, and causes, responsive to determining the container location, a supply record associated with the item type and a first container of the dispensing cabinet to be updated to reflect a change to a first amount of the first item type stored in the first container.

Resumen de: US2023169445A1

A packaging system and method includes an immersive reality system that renders a 3D representation of an item to be shipped and the shipping box in which the item is to be shipped. A server includes a database of items and item data and shipping box data, which is used to produce a 3D representation of the item and the shipping box. A GUI exhibits the items such that a user may selectively view, select, and/or manipulate the items. A computer enables a user to query the server to ship a selected item. A network node transmits selected item data and shipping box data to the immersive reality system. The 3D representations include position and orientation data enabling manipulation of the 3D representation of the selected item relative to the 3D representation of the shipping box into a desired position. The system ships the selected item in the desired position.

Resumen de: US2023169441A1

Systems and methods for lost asset management using photo-matching are disclosed herein. An example method includes capturing a lost asset image corresponding to a lost asset, and generating, by a feature extractor model, a lost asset descriptor that represents features of the lost asset image. The example method also includes storing the lost asset descriptor and the lost asset image in an asset database that includes known asset descriptors, and performing, by a visual search engine, a nearest neighbor search within the asset database to determine a respective metric distance between the lost asset descriptor and the known asset descriptors. The example method also includes determining, by the visual search engine, a ranked list of known assets corresponding to the lost asset, and displaying, at a user interface, the ranked list of known assets for viewing by a user.

Resumen de: US2023169443A1

A computer-implemented method of using channel tuning data from a video asset viewing device connected to a network to measure video asset viewing at a second-by-second level during one or more user defined lead-in periods, and then correlating that with video asset viewing during a user defined target period, for the purpose of analyzing how viewing activity during the lead-in period(s) correlates with viewing activity during the target period, thus producing longitudinal viewing metrics; all while maintaining viewer anonymity. Additionally, viewing metrics can be categorized based on user defined demographic, geographic, and histogram groupings representing the percentage of video asset viewing with the result that the analyst is able to gain detailed insight into customer viewing behavior. The lead-in video asset may be any video asset or assets. The target may be any subsequent video asset. The metrics produced are useful to service providers, advertisers, and content producers.

Resumen de: US2023169459A1

The invention relates to the monitoring of products by means of active radio tags. According to the invention, packagings of products are provided with an active radio tag that detects at least one environmental condition and/or at least one packaging state, and which emits a signal at time intervals, which provides information about a unique identifier and at least one state in which the respective product is found. The signal is picked up by a receiver that extracts the unique identifier and the state information and transmits same together with location information to an external server.

Resumen de: US2023169440A1

In a method of observation platform buy-online-pickup-in-store (BOPIS) integration, a BOPIS application is provisioned at an observation platform. The provisioning is administered by a cloud services platform in collaboration with a computer system of the observation platform and includes configuration and deployment of the BOPIS application within the observation platform. An automation software component is sent from the BOPIS application for resident installation at an external retailer system which is external to an environment of the observation platform. The automation software component organizes information in the external retailer system for exchange, via a cloud-based gateway, with the BOPIS application. A message regarding a BOPIS order populated in the external retailer system is received at the BOPIS application from the external retailer system. The observation platform sends, to a device of a user of the observation platform, a task request to perform a task related to the message.

Resumen de: US2023169570A1

Techniques described herein are directed to interactive elements displayed in multimedia content. In an example, it is determined that multimedia content displays an item offered for sale by a merchant. Based on so determining, an interactive element is rendered that displays a representation of the item offered for sale by the merchant in place of a portion of the multimedia content. When an interaction by a user with the interactive element is detected, a graphical user interface is displayed that is configured to allow the user to purchase the item.

Resumen de: US2023169507A1

Systems and methods for managing a store's displays and for automatically ordering components for such displays. A system includes at least one database of products details regarding each product's various prices, physical packaging dimensions, descriptions, and at least one image of each product. The system allows a user to configure a fixture on which products are to be displayed. Each display fixture can then be provisioned by the user so that the identity of the products to be displayed on each display peg or shelf is displayed. The database may also include a database of the various display fixtures used in the store along with the parts, components, and supplies for those fixtures. The system automatically generates purchase orders and authorization requests if an order is above a certain amount. In the event a request is not addressed within a certain amount of time, the system generates automated reminders.

Resumen de: US2023169444A1

A history management method for water treatment members includes: a first step of, during a shipping process of placing each water treatment member in the accommodating member, registering each water treatment member identification information in the information recording section of an information management device in association with accommodating member identification information for the accommodating member and attaching, to the accommodating member, a tag from which the accommodating member identification information is readable; and a second step of, during a receiving process of attaching each water treatment member accommodated in the accommodating member to the water treatment apparatus, registering the water treatment member identification information, which is obtained from the information recording section based on the accommodating member identification information read from the tag, in the information recording section in association with water treatment apparatus identification information for the water treatment apparatus.

Resumen de: US2023169473A1

Described herein is a medication return platform for managing returns of unused medications. In various embodiments, the medication return platform authorizes shipments of unused medications to manufacturers for disposal. The medication return platform may also provide a rebate for the returned medication to health insurance companies, employers, and other purchasers of medication. To facilitate the return process, the medication return platform may provide de minimis gifts to patients in exchange for their unused medications.

Resumen de: US2023169464A1

Supply chain management is performed by building a user-defined custom application that uses supply chain data. The supply chain data is returned for display and/or use in the custom application based on metadata stored in a database that is arranged to store supply chain data. The metadata specifies a stored procedure that when called based on parameters in a request generated in response to a user selecting a custom application, returns the supply chain data that may be used in whole or in part in the custom application.

Resumen de: US2023168849A1

A server system connectable to a print system including a transmission unit configured to transmit received print data to a printer includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating an amount of a consumable which is used for printing of transmitted print data to the printer, and a placement unit configured to place an order for the consumable to be used by the printer, based on the acquired information.

Resumen de: AU2022263551A1

DIGITAL IMAGING PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT DEVICES AND The present invention is devices and processes for producing digitally imaged products. Multiple digital images are encrypted with public keys that are unique to each digital image of the multiple digital images. A purchaser or producer of the product(s) to be imaged selects a digital image from the multiple digital images. A purchaser or producer provides payment information to the central computing device for an imaged substrate or substrates imaged with the digital image selected. An imaged product producer is provided with a private key. The imaged product producer decrypts the digital image using a private key assigned to the imaged product producer, and the imaged product producer produces an imaged substrate comprising the selected digital image formed on the substrate. Payment for the imaged substrate is allocated to participants, including allocating a portion of the payment for the imaged product to one or more creators of the digital image. Printable Image File Device ID/Ser# Pivate Key/Sigature Ink Status Control Parameters ORY PRINTER ELECTRONICS CPU rNRIF PULSE GENERATOR PRINTHEA DRIVER INK DROPLET

Resumen de: WO2023093651A1

An order processing system includes: sales terminal, server, database, printer, customer terminal and third-party payment platform. Through the mutual cooperation between various devices of the system, it can support Payment-first process and Payment-later process. In addition, it also provides a variety of payment modes for customers to choose, so as to improve the user experience.

Resumen de: WO2023097144A1

A method for communicating between an internal server system and an external warehouse system for a plurality of articles, the method including receiving an Inventory Snapshot Entity from the external warehouse system, selecting the one or more unique article identifiers from the Inventory Snapshot Entity to be included in an Order Entity, dropping the Order Entity to the external warehouse system, receiving a Return Entity from the external warehouse system, and in response to receiving the Return Entity, updating one or more article databases to indicate receiving one or more articles corresponding to the one or more unique article identifiers.