Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Inventory management
Reexamination Certificate
2008-05-20
2008-05-20
Zeender, Ryan F. (Department: 3627)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Inventory management
C705S026640, C705S027200, C705S029000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07376600
ABSTRACT:
A method for distributed inventory management includes receiving information regarding a number of participants in a value chain and information regarding one or more items relevant in the value chain. The method also includes modeling relationships between two or more of the participants based on the received information and modeling the one or more items based on the received information. The method further includes receiving inventory data from the participants relating to the one or more items, evaluating the received inventory data according to one or more business rules associated with an agent, executing a business process associated with the agent based on the evaluation of the inventory data and the models of the relationships and the items, and communicating output of the business process to one or more of the participants.
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Balakrishnan Sivakumar
Jain Ajay
Mohapatra Deepak
Wadawadigi Ganesh
Booth Udall, PLC
Champagne Luna
i2 Technologies US, Inc.
Zeender Ryan F.
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