Abstract: Techniques for managing product location information are described. Managing product location information may include generating store location information, including information that represents the layout of areas, aisles, sections, sides, and/or shelves within a given store or other establishment. Store location information can be used to represent the location of items within a given store. Some embodiments provide a mobile device configured to facilitate the generation of a store layout based on inputs received from a user who provides inputs regarding the areas, aisles, sides, sections, and shelves of the store.

Abstract: Techniques for managing product location information are described. Managing product location information may include collecting, storing, generating, and synthesizing information about the location of products or other items in a store, retail location, warehouse, or other location. In one embodiment, a user operates a mobile device (e.g., scanner, smart phone) to efficiently scan item identifiers corresponding to items on the shelves of a store. In some cases, the user need only scan a single item identifier in a section or shelf, which is then used to obtain information about other items in that section, such as based on a planogram or other store inventory information. In some embodiments, shelves, sections, and/or aisles include location identifiers that can be scanned in order to reset, save, and/or initialize a record that stores information about products located at that shelf, section, or aisle.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for organizing and processing pieces of interrelated information (or “thoughts”) using a digital computer is disclosed. The invention employs a graphical user interface to facilitate user interaction with highly flexible, associative “matrices” that enable users conveniently to organize digitally-stored thoughts and their network of interrelationships. Each of the thoughts may be affiliated with one or more application programs, such as a word processing or spreadsheet utility, or an Internet browser. Users are able conveniently to select a current thought along with any applications or content associated with that thought by interacting with the graphical representation. That representation is automatically reoriented about the selected thought, and is revised to reflect only those thoughts having predetermined relations to that current thought. Users can easily modify the matrix by interactively redefining relations between thoughts.