MONITORING AND REPORTING LIQUID PRODUCT DISPENSER TRANSACTION STATES FOR BOOK TO PHYSICAL RECONCILIATION PURPOSES
Patent №
US 7,574,385
Granted
2009-08-11
Filed 2005
Owner
FLYING J, INC.
Lab
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AI components
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planning
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
11061868
Disclosed is methods, systems, and computer program products for monitoring and reporting liquid product dispenser transaction states for book to physical reconciliation purposes. The method can provide virtual real-time status of sales transactions in order to perform liquid product fuel reconciliation regardless of ongoing sales. The method can include receiving a request to perform the liquid product book to physical reconciliation for one or more storage tanks at a retail facility. Once the requested is received, the method can entail identifying a duration for accumulation of measurement data used for the reconciliation and during the identified duration, monitoring the status of one or more dispensers that dispense liquid product from the one or more storage tanks. Based on the status of the one or more dispensers, the method can include updating either a physical inventory or a book value to appropriately determine the book to physical reconciliation.
AI classification
Ownership
FLYING J, INC.
assignment · 162180505
Assignors
HILLAM, JOHN D., SHELLABARGER, GARY I.
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.