Patent №
US 4,959,686
Granted
1990-09-25
Filed 1988
Owner
DEXTER SYSTEMS, INC., A CORP. OF DE
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Lab
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AI components
1
planning
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
07159758
An automated shopping order entry system has particularly advantageous features for use in a supermarket having a delicatessen station. A processor subsystem, a customer subsystem, and an employee subsystem are provided. The customer subsystem can be located in the view of customers entering at a customer entrance that is typically remote from the delicatessen station. The customer can select delicatessen items and gets a printout of item selection and of estimated waiting time based on an accumulated variable workload that depends on items ordered by customers. Shopping efficiency is increased by making automated shopping available to the customer at an advantageous place and time in the shopping pattern, and by handling waiting time in an advantageous manner.
AI classification
Ownership
DEXTER SYSTEMS, INC., A CORP. OF DE
assignment · 48410077
CAPITOL MANUFACTURING CO., INC. (A CORP. OF NJ.)
assignment · 87320095
PENN BUSINESS CREDIT, INC.
assignment · 97640963
Assignors
SPALLONE, JOHN J., DOYLE, WILLIAM E., CAWLEY, PETER
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.