Data processing: generic control systems or specific application – Specific application – apparatus or process – Article handling
Reexamination Certificate
2011-02-01
2011-02-01
Crawford, Gene (Department: 3651)
Data processing: generic control systems or specific application
Specific application, apparatus or process
Article handling
Reexamination Certificate
active
07881820
ABSTRACT:
A method and system for inventory placement according to expected item picking rates. In one embodiment, a method may include determining a respective expected picking rate for each of a number of inventory items, and dependent upon the expected picking rate, selecting a corresponding one of a number of zones of an inventory storage area for each of the items. The zones may be physically arranged within the inventory storage area such that a first, innermost zone is successively and at least partially surrounded by one or more other zones. The method may further include storing each of the items within the corresponding zones, such that the expected picking rates of members of a given group of items stored in a given zone are less than the expected picking rates of members of another group of items stored in a successive zone that at least partially surrounds the given zone.
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Antony Felix F.
Li Xiao Yu
Amazon Technologies Inc.
Crawford Gene
Kowert Robert C.
Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel P.C.
Prakasam Ramya
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