Appeal No. 2003-1631
Application No. 09/451,332
obtaining accurate time estimates of delivery from a supplier to
a manufacturer.
Independent claim 8 is illustrative of the invention and
reads as follows:
8. In a data processing system for tracking inventory,
said data processing system having a processor for processing
data and a storage device for storing data, a method for
estimating a time of arrival of supplier goods being transferred
from a source to a final destination, wherein said supplier goods
are transferred to an intermediate location by a first carrier
and from said intermediate location to a final destination by a
second carrier, said method comprising the steps of:
receiving at the data processing system a first transmission
from said source, said transmission indicative of characteristics
of said supplier goods;
receiving at the data processing system a second
transmission from said first carrier when said first carrier is
delivering said supplier goods from said source to said
intermediate location, said second transmission indicative of
characteristics of said first carrier;
associating, with the data processing system, said first
carrier with said supplier goods by comparing at least one of
said characteristics of said supplier goods contained in said
first transmission with at least one of said characteristics of
said carrier contained in said second transmission;
obtaining a first estimated time of arrival for said
supplier goods to said final destination, said first estimated
time of arrival being obtained from said second transmission;
receiving at the data processing system a third transmission
when said second carrier is delivering said supplier goods from
said intermediate location to said final destination; said third
transmission indicative of characteristics of said second
carrier;
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