Patents by Inventor Surilkumar Patel

Surilkumar Patel 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).

  • Access point triangulation for task assignment of warehouse employees
    Patent number: 8626548
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed to assign one or more tasks to a plurality of warehouse employees. In one embodiment, a method is provided which comprises receiving an order for an item stored in a warehouse. A location of the item in the warehouse can be determined. A current location of each of the warehouse employees can be determined based on a strength of a signal from a wireless device assigned to each of the warehouse employees. The signal can be detected by at least two wireless access points at different location in the warehouse. At least one of the warehouse employees can be selected to fill the order based on the current location of each of the warehouse employees and the locations of the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventor: Surilkumar Patel
  • Access point triangulation for task assignment of warehouse employees
    Publication number: 20070067200
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed to assign one or more tasks to a plurality of warehouse employees. In one embodiment, a method is provided which comprises receiving an order for an item stored in a warehouse. A location of the item in the warehouse can be determined. A current location of each of the warehouse employees can be determined based on a strength of a signal from a wireless device assigned to each of the warehouse employees. The signal can be detected by at least two wireless access points at different location in the warehouse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2005
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventor: Surilkumar Patel