Patents by Inventor Angie Brown

Angie Brown has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11430048
    Abstract: Receiving and processing user orders may include receiving an order for an order quantity of a product from a user computing device, retrieving a threshold inventory quantity of the product, retrieving a last known inventory quantity of the product, comparing the threshold inventory quantity with the difference between the last known inventory quantity and the order quantity, performing an asynchronous reservation of the quantity of the product when the threshold inventory quantity is less than the difference between the last known inventory quantity and the order quantity, and performing a synchronous reservation of the quantity of the product when the threshold inventory quantity is greater than the difference between the last known inventory quantity and the order quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Home Depot Product Authority, LLC
    Inventors: Hari Ramamurthy, Angie Brown, Thomas Gamble, Stephen Jacobs, Todd Stormes
  • Publication number: 20220020080
    Abstract: A method for processing user orders for products may include receiving an order for an order quantity of the product from a user computing device, determining that the order management system cannot communicate with the inventory management system to reserve the order quantity of the product, retrieving a last known inventory quantity of the product, retrieving an offline demand quantity for the product, transmitting a confirmation of the order to the user computing device when the sum of the order quantity and the offline demand quantity of the product is less than or equal to the last known inventory quantity of the product, and transmitting a denial of the order to the user computing device when the sum of the order quantity and the offline demand quantity of the product is greater than the last known inventory quantity of the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Hari Ramamurthy, Angie Brown, Thomas Gamble, Stephen Jacobs, David Rogers
  • Publication number: 20200104905
    Abstract: Receiving and processing user orders may include receiving an order for an order quantity of a product from a user computing device, retrieving a threshold inventory quantity of the product, retrieving a last known inventory quantity of the product, comparing the threshold inventory quantity with the difference between the last known inventory quantity and the order quantity, performing an asynchronous reservation of the quantity of the product when the threshold inventory quantity is less than the difference between the last known inventory quantity and the order quantity, and performing a synchronous reservation of the quantity of the product when the threshold inventory quantity is greater than the difference between the last known inventory quantity and the order quantity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Hari Ramamurthy, Angie Brown, Thomas Gamble, Stephen Jacobs, Todd Stormes
  • Patent number: 10497049
    Abstract: Receiving and processing user orders may include receiving an order for an order quantity of a product from a user computing device, retrieving a threshold inventory quantity of the product, retrieving a last known inventory quantity of the product, comparing the threshold inventory quantity with the difference between the last known inventory quantity and the order quantity, performing an asynchronous reservation of the quantity of the product when the threshold inventory quantity is less than the difference between the last known inventory quantity and the order quantity, and performing a synchronous reservation of the quantity of the product when the threshold inventory quantity is greater than the difference between the last known inventory quantity and the order quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Home Depot Product Authority, LLC
    Inventors: Hari Ramamurthy, Angie Brown, Thomas Gamble, Stephen Jacobs, Todd Stormes
  • Publication number: 20180276213
    Abstract: A database request management system in electronic communication with a database may be configured to compare new requests for data stored in the database to a registry of queued requests to determine if each new request is a duplicate of a queued request, reject duplicate requests, and add non-duplicate requests to a request queue and to a request registry. The request management system may also be configured to continuously transmit the top request from the queue of requests to the database, receive a response to the top request from the database, and remove the top request from the queue and unregister the top request from the request registry after receiving the response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Hari Ramamurthy, Murugan Gandhi, Rageesh Thekkeyil, Kaustubh Kulkarni, Angie Brown
  • Publication number: 20170372394
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for the facilitation of authorized in-store pickup in conjunction with online ordering. A request to process an order of an item selected by a customer and placed through a website may be received. The website may be transformed to a cart fulfillment web page including a fulfillment interface. Through the fulfillment interface, a selection of an option for in-store pickup by a third party may be received from the customer. Through the fulfillment interface, identifying information regarding the third party, pickup details associated with the in-store pickup of the item by the third party, and a preferred notification method for contacting the third party may also be received from the customer. An authorization pickup record related to the in-store pickup of the item by the third party may be generated. The authorization pickup record may be transmitted to the third party via the preferred notification method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Mary B. Jones, Jenna Floyd, Ashley Yancey, Carly Westcott, Emily Knox, Shannon Chister, Reid Tarentino, Sastry Akella, Nathan Hawk, Brandon Knox, Christopher Nuckles, Todd Stormes, Angie Brown
  • Publication number: 20170255990
    Abstract: Receiving and processing user orders may include receiving an order for an order quantity of a product from a user computing device, retrieving a threshold inventory quantity of the product, retrieving a last known inventory quantity of the product, comparing the threshold inventory quantity with the difference between the last known inventory quantity and the order quantity, performing an asynchronous reservation of the quantity of the product when the threshold inventory quantity is less than the difference between the last known inventory quantity and the order quantity, and performing a synchronous reservation of the quantity of the product when the threshold inventory quantity is greater than the difference between the last known inventory quantity and the order quantity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2016
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Hari Ramamurthy, Angie Brown, Thomas Gamble, Stephen Jacobs, Todd Stormes
  • Publication number: 20170255991
    Abstract: A method for processing user orders for products may include receiving an order for an order quantity of the product from a user computing device, determining that the order management system cannot communicate with the inventory management system to reserve the order quantity of the product, retrieving a last known inventory quantity of the product, retrieving an offline demand quantity for the product, transmitting a confirmation of the order to the user computing device when the sum of the order quantity and the offline demand quantity of the product is less than or equal to the last known inventory quantity of the product, and transmitting a denial of the order to the user computing device when the sum of the order quantity and the offline demand quantity of the product is greater than the last known inventory quantity of the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2016
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Hari Ramamurthy, Angie Brown, Thomas Gamble, Stephen Jacobs, David Rogers
  • Patent number: 9721285
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for the facilitation of authorized in-store pickup in conjunction with online ordering. A request to process an order of an item selected by a customer and placed through a website may be received. The website may be transformed to a cart fulfillment web page including a fulfillment interface. Through the fulfillment interface, a selection of an option for in-store pickup by a third party may be received from the customer. Through the fulfillment interface, identifying information regarding the third party, pickup details associated with the in-store pickup of the item by the third party, and a preferred notification method for contacting the third party may also be received from the customer. An authorization pickup record related to the in-store pickup of the item by the third party may be generated. The authorization pickup record may be transmitted to the third party via the preferred notification method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Home Depot Product Authority, LLC
    Inventors: Mary B. Jones, Jenna Floyd, Ashley Yancey, Carly Westcott, Emily Knox, Shannon Chister, Reid Tarentino, Sastry Akella, Nathan Hawk, Brandon Knox, Christopher Nuckles, Todd Stormes, Angie Brown
  • Publication number: 20140279238
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for the facilitation of authorized in-store pickup in conjunction with online ordering. A request to process an order of an item selected by a customer and placed through a website may be received. The website may be transformed to a cart fulfillment web page including a fulfillment interface. Through the fulfillment interface, a selection of an option for in-store pickup by a third party may be received from the customer. Through the fulfillment interface, identifying information regarding the third party, pickup details associated with the in-store pickup of the item by the third party, and a preferred notification method for contacting the third party may also be received from the customer. An authorization pickup record related to the in-store pickup of the item by the third party may be generated. The authorization pickup record may be transmitted to the third party via the preferred notification method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Homer TLC, Inc.
    Inventors: Mary B. Jones, Jenna Floyd, Ashley Yancey, Carly Westcott, Emily Knox, Shannon Chister, Reid Tarentino, Sastry Akella, Nathan Hawk, Brandon Knox, Christopher Nuckles, Todd Stormes, Angie Brown