发明名称 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INSTALLATION OF A REMOTELY MONITORED VENDING NETWORK
摘要 An embodiment provides a system of automated workflow management and active checkpoint validation that streamlines and standardizes the vending machine provisioning process. The embodiment not only normalizes the installation and deployment process across geographic and personnel differences, it also greatly optimizes the process allowing for increased installations per technician per day. The monitored assets are added to online applications in real time and remote monitoring commences immediately upon the end of technician visit. Other embodiments are addressed herein.
申请公布号 US2017109719(A1) 申请公布日期 2017.04.20
申请号 US201515127802 申请日期 2015.03.23
申请人 VENDWATCH TELEMATICS, LLC 发明人 Treviño Alfonso Javier Barragán;Crow James J.
分类号 G06Q20/18 主分类号 G06Q20/18
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主权项 1. At least one storage medium having instructions stored thereon for causing a system to: receive user input, from a user of the system, including an identifier for a remote computing node not included in the system; communicate the identifier to the remote computing node; receive a first communication, from the remote computing node, including a plurality of user names; in response to the first communication, receive first user input and communicate the first user input to the remote computing node; wherein the first user input includes a user name for the user that was included in the plurality of user names; in response to a second communication from the remote computing node and communicating the first user input to the remote computing node, receive second user input including a serial number for a vending interface unit (VIU) and communicate the serial number to the remote computing unit; wherein the VIU includes a communications module configured to communicate with peripheral devices of a vending machine (VM) and the remote computing node; in response to a third communication from the remote computing node and communicating the serial number to the remote computing unit, communicate a data exchange (DEX) file to the remote computing node; in response to a fourth communication from the remote computing node and communicating the serial number to the remote computing unit, communicate a plan-o-gram (POG), which corresponds to the VM, to the remote computing node; and determine the DEX file and plan-o-gram are justified with each other; wherein the first, second, third, and fourth communications are displayed to the user via a display module included in the system.
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