Patents Assigned to America's Collectibles Network, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11695993
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a content creation system comprising one or more client devices, one or more servers including a database for storing information related to a plurality of items to be displayed and sold during a show, identification information associated with the plurality of items, a quantity of the plurality of items in stock in a warehouse, a plurality of audio segments, and a plurality of video segments, and a program creation unit for processing the information received from the database and for creating the show for subsequent broadcast, the show having a plurality of plays. The system also includes a network coupled to the one or more client devices and the one or more servers for allowing the one or more client devices to communicate with the one or more servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: America's Collectibles Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy B. Matthews, Chris Meystrik, Samuel Reynolds, Matthew Honeycutt, Vivek Mongolu, Gabriel Cooper, Mickey West, Benjamin Walsh
  • Patent number: 11195129
    Abstract: The customer order fulfillment system includes an order collection unit for collecting information associated with a plurality of customer orders from a plurality of customers and generating customer order data that includes data associated with each of the plurality of customer orders and the plurality of customers. Each of the plurality of customer order includes one or more items associated therewith. The system also includes an order generating unit for receiving the customer order data from the order collection unit and generating in response thereto consolidated order fulfillment data, and a pick tour generating subsystem for receiving the consolidated order fulfillment data from the order generating unit and in response thereto generating pick tour instructions associated with a pick tour from the consolidated order fulfillment data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: America's Collectibles Network, Inc.
    Inventors: George F. Willard, III, Lei Cao, Dustin W. Cole, Mahendra Satrasala, David Byrd, G. Shannon Meade, Bradley K. Waller
  • Patent number: 11120378
    Abstract: A customer order fulfillment system comprising an order collection unit for collecting information associated with a plurality of customer orders and generating related customer order data. The system also includes an order generating unit for receiving the customer order data from the order collection unit and generating in response thereto consolidated order fulfillment data, and a bulk pick order fulfillment unit for receiving the consolidated order fulfillment data from the order generating unit and grouping together similar ones of the items associated with the customer orders to form a plurality of bulk picks, wherein one or more of the bulk picks can form part of one or more bulk pick tours. The system further includes a pick tour generating unit for receiving the consolidated order fulfillment data from the order generating unit and for generating pick tour instructions associated with a pick tour from the consolidated order fulfillment data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: America's Collectibles Network, Inc.
    Inventors: George F. Willard, III, Mahendra Satrasala, Lei Cao, G. Shannon Meade, Bradley K. Waller, Matthew Cardwell
  • Patent number: 11113648
    Abstract: The customer order fulfillment system includes an order collection unit for collecting information associated with a plurality of customer orders having items and generating customer order data. Each of the plurality of customer order includes one or more items associated therewith. An order generating unit for receiving the customer order data and generating in response consolidated order fulfillment data, a pick tour generating subsystem for receiving the consolidated order fulfillment data and in response thereto generating pick tour instructions associated with a pick tour, and a bulk pick order fulfillment unit for grouping together similar ones of the items associated with the plurality of customer orders to form a plurality of bulk picks. An automated fulfillment system receives the consolidated order fulfillment data from the order generating unit and automatically selects one or more of the items from one or more carousels, employing the pick tour or the bulk pick.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: America's Collectibles Network, Inc.
    Inventors: George F. Willard, III, Lei Cao, Dustin W. Cole, Mahendra Satrasala, David Byrd, G. Shannon Meade, Bradley K. Waller
  • Patent number: 11107148
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present application provide a packing system for an order fulfillment process. The packing system may include a scanner for scanning a barcode to retrieve a product identifier that is used to look up an order in a package database. A packager may package the product and a scale may weigh the packaged product. Using the weight from the scale and the order information from the package database, postage information for the packaged product may be retrieved from a postage database. One or more labels for the product may be printed based on the postage information and the order information, and the labels may be affixed to the packaged product. A workstation may display an interface providing an overview of the process, a time required to perform the steps in the process, and any errors associated with steps in the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: America's Collectibles Network, Inc.
    Inventors: George F. Willard, III, Mahendra Satrasala, Lei Cao, Dustin Cole, Shannon Meade, Matthew Cardwell