Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Mapping boxes in a storage bay
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Application No.: US15209916Application Date: 2016-07-14
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Publication No.: US10152689B2Publication Date: 2018-12-11
- Inventor: Budy D. Notohardjono , Arkadiy O. Tsfasman , John S. Werner
- Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.
- Agent Tihon Poltavets, Esq.; Kevin P. Radigan, Esq.
- Main IPC: G06Q10/08
- IPC: G06Q10/08 ; H04W4/02 ; H04W4/80

Abstract:
Mapping boxes in a storage bay is provided, which includes: ascertaining storage bay boundaries; wirelessly reading, using a mobile device, identifying information from tags associated with the boxes, each box having one or more associated tags, and the identifying information including size information for the associated box; determining position of the tags in the storage bay by triangulating tag locations relative to, in part, one or more locations of the mobile device; and creating, by a processor, a mapping of boxes in the storage bay using the tag positions and the identifying information wirelessly read from the tags. In one or more implementations, the tags are near-field communication (NFC) tags associated with the boxes, and the creating may include automatically reorienting a floating box in the mapping of boxes, as well as automatically repositioning a box when boxes overlap each other, or overlap an edge of the storage bay.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180018621A1 MAPPING BOXES IN A STORAGE BAY Public/Granted day:2018-01-18
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