Christopher H Hymel

US Patent:

7313537, Dec 25, 2007

Filed:

Sep 27, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/964973

Inventors:

Jeffery O. Burrell - Decatur GA, US
Donald L. Rhoads - Germantown TN, US
Christopher H. Hymel - Birmingham AL, US
Andy T. Ewing - Atlanta GA, US
Susan H. Menkhaus - Alpharetta GA, US
Carol A. Brechtel - Baton Rouge LA, US
Linda C. Narcisse - Baton Rouge LA, US

Assignee:

AT&T Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc. - Wilmington DE

International Classification:

G06Q 10/00

US Classification:

705 28

Abstract:

A system for reconciling an inventory record having a count of products, pricing, and vintaging assigns a price and vintage for instances written-on to the count when products are found in inventory that are not accounted for by the inventory record. The price and vintage assigned to the instances added to the count are statistically determined from inventory records after outlier values have been removed. The instances with outlier values may also be removed from the inventory record being reconciled prior to comparing the inventory record to a recount of the items in inventory. The representative price and vintage may be stored in a table that is referenced when performing the reconciliation process. A substitution table may also be used to find interchangeable product types and reduce the number of instances to be written-on or written-off.

US Patent:

7249070, Jul 24, 2007

Filed:

Oct 30, 2001

Appl. No.:

10/017311

Inventors:

Jeffery O. Burrell - Decatur GA, US
Christopher H. Hymel - Birmingham AL, US
Andy T. Ewing - Atlanta GA, US
Susan H. Menkhaus - Alpharetta GA, US
Carol A. Brechtel - Baton Rouge LA, US

Assignee:

AT&T Intellectual Property, Inc. - Atlanta GA

International Classification:

G06Q 90/00

US Classification:

705 28

Abstract:

A system for reconciling a central inventory record having a count of products and location assignments for the instances of the count chooses instances for write-ons and write-offs based on the location assignments. When instances are to be written-on to the inventory record due to a shortage of instances in the record, then the added instances are assigned a location by detecting a shortage of instances for a particular location assignment relative to a proportionate amount and providing that location assignment to one or more of the added instances. When instances are to be written-off from the inventory record due to an excess number of instances in the record, the instances are removed by detecting excessive instances for a particular location assignment relative to a proportionate amount and removing one or more instances having that particular location assignment.