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Mouse device with a built-in printer
A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190488 | Methods and systems for evaluating the impact of consolidating print shops on inventory levels In an embodiment, a system of evaluating an impact of consolidating a plurality of print shops on inventory levels may include a processor and a processor-readable storage medium in communication with the processor. The processor-readable storage medium may include ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185451 | Turn-around time information management system, storage medium, and turn-around time information management method An order data obtaining device displays a list of components on a Web page, and recognizes components selected on the Web page, thereby obtaining order data of a product that is formed of a plurality of components. A turnaround time display control device obtains tu... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180678 | Apparatus and method for providing products and services in a transport vehicle using a network of computers Computer network system for providing, and managing delivery of, products and services to persons on a transport vehicle. An exemplary network (10) includes: Computers (11a through 11c), such as laptop computers, used by persons on... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175925 | Position-based item identification in a materials handling facility Positional placement guidelines for storing items in an inventory area may allow determination and tracking of the position of the items in the inventory area. Position information may be associated with each item in a materials handling facility to assist in locati... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8156006 | Inventory commingling and reconciliation of inaccuracies A facility for managing ownership of units of an item is described. The facility defines a commingling zone. For units of the item that are outside the commingling zone, the facility attributes ownership among a plurality of owners individually to each of the units.... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8140396 | Safety stock amount calculation method, safety stock amount calculation device, reorder point calculation method, reorder point calculation device, and order quantity calculation method A safety stock amount calculation method includes calculating a probability Pb that a delivery time for a certain commodity required by a customer is shorter than its lead time L, calculating an average value LL of a difference between the lead time L and the custom... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8126782 | Method and device for location integrated ordering and queue placement Disclosed herein is a system and method for performing automated location integrated ordering of products and services at an event. This may be accomplished through placing product orders to one or more vendors using a portable electronic device, wherein upon placin... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8108259 | Systems and methods for providing personalized delivery services Systems and methods are disclosed for providing personalized delivery services by a carrier providing a package delivery service. Typically, the consignee indicates a delivery preference to be applied to delivery of a package, such as indicating a specific location ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8095431 | Online system and method of reporting related to orders for consumer product having specific configurations An online system for generating reports related to consumer product online orders is provided. The system comprises at least one presentation application operable to capture user online session data including a presentation application identifier, session identifier... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8065191 | Electronic quantity purchasing system Disclosed is an electronic quantity purchasing system which is a host computer that a user may access to purchase quantities of goods or services at a locked-in price for later redemption. The preferred communication means employed is via secure, high-speed Internet... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8055544 | Source- and venue-specific inventory data processing and identification system An inventory manager processes and assigns data from data records for a product in accordance with rule set that correspond to a source and venue associate with the product. The inventory manager may delete, modify, and create data within a data record. The data may... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8036940 | System and method for displaying inventory and future inventory for purchase An embodiment of the invention provides the ability for forest products sellers to provide potential buyers with price and availability information about their products, whether or not those products are in existing inventory. It gives the seller control over which ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036939 | Reporting in a supply chain A system and a method for reporting in a supply chain involving an enterprise and at least one partner are provided. A request from a network system for access to real-time data stored in an existing partner system is received at a partner coordinator component. The... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8032417 | Method, apparatus, and computer program product for tracking inventory values within a plant A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed in a computer system for tracking inventory values. Multiple physical storage locations, within a plant, are defined where inventory items can be stored. An indication that an inventory item is being ph... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8019635 | Adaptive product configuration model The adaptive product conditioning is a computer-implemented method for identifying product configurations that can be provided to customers in reaction to supply imbalances. The methodology uses data mining techniques to collect and analyze business level meta data ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7996265 | System and method for fulfilling a media request A system and method for fulfilling a media request includes receiving a media request associated with a subscriber account. One inventory location is selected from a plurality of inventory locations to fulfill the media request, and at least one of the inventory loc... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7949568 | Determination of product display parameters based on image processing Image analysis techniques, including object recognition analysis, are applied to images obtained by one or more image capture devices deployed within inventory environments. The object recognition analysis provides object recognition data (that may include one or mo... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7937289 | Method and apparatus for monitoring unit depletion in an independent real-time mass storage unit system by using an estimated tare mass of the item Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for estimating, refining, and using the tare mass for an item to determine and monitor item depletion. In response to detecting an initial presence of... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7933805 | Safe stock amount calculation method, safe stock amount calculation device, order making moment calculation method, order making moment calculation device, and order making amount calculation method A safety stock amount calculation method includes calculating a probability Pb that a delivery time for a certain commodity required by a customer is shorter than its lead time L, calculating an average LL of a difference between the lead time L and the customer's r... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7912754 | Point-of-care inventory management system and method A system and method are disclosed for controlling an inventory of point-of-care diagnostic devices. The inventory includes a main inventory and at least one subinventory. Each device has an ambient temperature shelf life. Data associated with the devices is entered,... | 03/22/2011 |
| RE42077 | Computer system for maintaining current and predicting future food needs A computer system (10) is provided which includes an electronic cash registers (11) electronically coupled to a cooking station monitor (12) and input (13), and a manager's station monitor (15), input (16), and printer (1... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7873542 | Method of distributing product utilizing preloaded mini-pallets A method of utilizing a mini-pallet to create, organize, and move product stacks is provided where orders are preloaded on mini-pallets, placed in a trailer and then offloaded by account location with a hand truck. ... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7865398 | Radio frequency identification tag on picking container and display of picklist to order filler A method of filling an order in a warehouse or store. An order is received at a product moving device, and is filled with items in the warehouse. The order is displayed as a picklist that includes data about each item, including the number of the item desired, and a... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7853480 | System and method for providing export services to merchants A fulfillment services provider may offer export services to merchants, including generation of required export documentation; calculation, collection, and remittance of customs duties; and transportation via an international carrier. Such export services may be off... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7848952 | Method and system for increasing advance orders A system and method are described for increasing advance orders for goods or services. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving advance orders for a product with a specified release date from a plurality of buyers and moving up the release date if a goal is... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7848953 | Order fulfillment logic for a field service system In one embodiment, an order pertaining to one or more items available at multiple inventory locations associated with an organization is received, and a preference order fulfillment list is created for the multiple inventory locations based on one or more criteria c... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7844494 | Electronic acknowledgment of receipt of inventory A method for tracking status of an inventory shipment sent to a recipient includes monitoring whether the recipient has transmitted an electronic acknowledgment of the status of the shipment; and automatically transmitting a message to the recipient requesting ackno... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7801765 | Prescription verification system An apparatus and method for permitting a pharmacist to verify a refill of a filled prescription stored on a host system. A prescription refill screen is provided by the host system to a pharmacy system associated with the pharmacist. The prescription refill screen i... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7761333 | Income tax preparation system for traveling taxpayers A system for determining travel deductions includes a city rate table identifying allowed per diem expense rates for each city. Cities visited, durations of stay and expense reimbursements received from the taxpayer's employer are input to the system. The system cal... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7739147 | System and method for pallet identification based on threshold of case-level tags A system, method, and program product that uses statistical sampling to determine whether a pallet has been received when the pallet-level RFID tag is not read. When a shipment is unloaded, the system keeps track of the item-level RFID tags that are received. A thre... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7725352 | Method and system for enterprise-wide migration Disclosed are a method, system and computer program for collecting inventory data about a group of machines at an office. This method comprises the steps of running an inventory tool on each of the machines, and the tool presenting dialogue displays on each of the m... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7711602 | Systems and methods for supply chain management The present invention is directed to systems and methods for supply chain management. An order for one or more products is received from a buyer or a seller. For each product in the received order, a buyer and a seller are determined. In some instances, multiple buy... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7707064 | RFID receiving process for use with enterprise resource planning systems A Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) receiving method for use with an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is provided. The method includes reading, at a receiving point, information from RFID tags included on delivered items, which are not recorded on an Ad... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7689460 | Store management system and store management method A store management system has a merchandise information management apparatus which transmits merchandise information, a merchandise tag which is provided with a first display, and receives the merchandise information which is transmitted from the merchandise informa... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7680691 | Inventory management system using RFID An inventory management system is provided that includes an RFID interrogator and corresponding RFID tags that are placed on items to be monitored. The tags can be used to monitor the storage time of food items stored in a refrigerator or pantry, the time in use of ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7672872 | Point-of-purchase display with RFID inventory control A point-of-purchase (“POP”) display employing RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) technology for inventory control is provided. The POP is preferably fabricated from paper, paperboard and/or corrugated paperboard material, and incorporates one or more shelves ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7660739 | Electronic inventory movement and control device Disclosed is a method and apparatus to electronically tabulate items marked with a bar code. The system may optionally operate to manage, control and tabulate inventory, produce vendor-correct purchase orders, manage multiple locations, multiple buildings, multiple ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7634426 | Golf reservation system Embodiments of the present invention provide a golf reservation system. The golf reservation system may periodically poll tee-sheet systems to determine available inventory. The golf reservation system may use the results of these pollings for responding to a user r... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7624043 | Inventory control system and method in recycle-oriented society In a physical distribution model of the circulation type, synchronization is established between a reuse plan and a delivery/fabrication plan to thereby reasonably reduce the excess and deficiency of inventory articles at a confluence point of regenerated reusable a... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7603288 | Photo laboratory management system The photo laboratory management system manages a photo laboratory utilizing a digital photo print system and includes an order entry function of receiving an order from a customer by receiving order information that includes at least identification information of th... | 10/13/2009 |
