发明名称 |
METHOD AND APPARATUS PERTAINING TO MONITORING ITEM SOURCE LOCATIONS |
摘要 |
One maintains a first historical record that correlates each of a plurality of items that each have a unique identifier with one of a plurality of locations with a facility. Upon then determining that a given one of those items is leaving the facility (for example, by detecting that the item is literally exiting a building that comprises the facility and/or that the item is being purchased), that item's unique identifier and that first historical record are used to update a second historical record with respect to which locations within the facility are moving which items. By one approach the aforementioned unique identifier can comprise an electronic product code as comprises a part of a corresponding RFID tag. |
申请公布号 |
CA2906578(A1) |
申请公布日期 |
2014.10.02 |
申请号 |
CA20142906578 |
申请日期 |
2014.03.13 |
申请人 |
WAL-MART STORES, INC. |
发明人 |
JONES, NICHOLAUS A.;WILKINSON, BRUCE W. |
分类号 |
G06Q10/08;B65G1/137;G06K7/10;H04B1/59 |
主分类号 |
G06Q10/08 |
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