Patents by Inventor DANIEL ALVES DA SILVA

DANIEL ALVES DA SILVA 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).

  • Mobile device based inventory management and sales trends analysis in a retail environment
    Patent number: 11593821
    Abstract: A method for calculating sales trend of a product at a store shelf based on crowdsourcing, includes receiving, by a retail store server, availability data of a product measured on a shelf in the retail store from a portable device, where the availability data is in the form of a picture acquired of the product on the shelf, identifying products on the shelf using tags attached to the shelves, calculating sales velocity and sales trends of the product from the identified products, and transmitting the sales velocity and sales trend of the product to one or more third parties' systems in a supply chain of said retail store. Products and their locations on retail store shelves have been cataloged in a product database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Priscilla Barreira Avegliano, Sergio Borger, Carlos Henrique Cardonha, Ricardo Guimaraes Herrmann, Cesar Kawabata, Andrea Britto Mattos, Daniel Alves Da Silva
  • MOBILE DEVICE BASED INVENTORY MANAGEMENT AND SALES TRENDS ANALYSIS IN A RETAIL ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20150294333
    Abstract: A method for calculating sales trend of a product at a store shelf based on crowdsourcing, includes receiving, by a retail store server, availability data of a product measured on a shelf in the retail store from a portable device, where the availability data is in the form of a picture acquired of the product on the shelf, identifying products on the shelf using tags attached to the shelves, calculating sales velocity and sales trends of the product from the identified products, and transmitting the sales velocity and sales trend of the product to one or more third parties' systems in a supply chain of said retail store. Products and their locations on retail store shelves have been cataloged in a product database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: PRISCILLA BARREIRA AVEGLIANO, SERGIO BORGER, CARLOS HENRIQUE CARDONHA, DIEGO SANCHEZ GALLO, RICARDO GUIMARAES HERRMANN, CESAR KAWABATA, ANDREA BRITTO MATTOS, DANIEL ALVES DA SILVA
  • MOBILE DEVICE BASED INVENTORY MANAGEMENT AND SALES TRENDS ANALYSIS IN A RETAIL ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20150235157
    Abstract: A method for calculating sales trend of a product at a store shelf based on crowdsourcing, includes receiving, by a retail store server, availability data of a product measured on a shelf in the retail store from a portable device, where the availability data is in the form of a picture acquired of the product on the shelf, identifying products on the shelf using tags attached to the shelves, calculating sales velocity and sales trends of the product from the identified products, and transmitting the sales velocity and sales trend of the product to one or more third parties' systems in a supply chain of said retail store. Products and their locations on retail store shelves have been cataloged in a product database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventors: PRISCILLA BARREIRA AVEGLIANO, SERGIO BORGER, CARLOS HENRIQUE CARDONHA, DIEGO SANCHEZ GALLO, RICARDO GUIMARAES HERRMANN, CESAR KAWABATA, ANDREA BRITTO MATTOS, DANIEL ALVES DA SILVA