Patents by Inventor Tobias Adler

Tobias Adler 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: 11875421
    Abstract: A method, a medium, and a system for distributing a warehouse task from a warehouse management hub to a programmable logic controller comprise receiving at least one warehouse task at a warehouse management hub including attributes for physically transferring at least one product into a warehouse, out of the warehouse or within the warehouse, determining, by the warehouse management hub and based on the attributes of the warehouse task, one of a plurality of warehouse management devices for processing the warehouse task, sending, by the warehouse management hub, the warehouse task to the determined warehouse management device, identifying, by the determined warehouse management device and based on the attributes of the warehouse task, a first one of a plurality of programmable logic controllers, and sending, by the determined warehouse management device, a message including information for carrying out the warehouse task to the identified programmable logic controllers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Tobias Adler, Joerg Michaelis, Andreas Daum
  • Publication number: 20220148117
    Abstract: A method, a medium, and a system for distributing a warehouse task from a warehouse management hub to a programmable logic controller comprise receiving at least one warehouse task at a warehouse management hub including attributes for physically transferring at least one product into a warehouse, out of the warehouse or within the warehouse, determining, by the warehouse management hub and based on the attributes of the warehouse task, one of a plurality of warehouse management devices for processing the warehouse task, sending, by the warehouse management hub, the warehouse task to the determined warehouse management device, identifying, by the determined warehouse management device and based on the attributes of the warehouse task, a first one of a plurality of programmable logic controllers, and sending, by the determined warehouse management device, a message including information for carrying out the warehouse task to the identified programmable logic controllers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Tobias ADLER, Joerg MICHAELIS, Andreas DAUM
  • Patent number: 10007891
    Abstract: Methods and system are disclosed that improve warehouse management operations. in one aspect, an enterprise application (e.g., warehouse management system) receives a message to process a request from a programmable logic controller. In response to a failure to process the request, status identifiers may be determined. The status identifiers may indicate errors that may have resulted in response to the failure to process the request. Based on the errors, the enterprise application may be configured with time intervals to re-process the request. After a lapse of the configured time interval, the enterprise application may be asynchronously triggered to automatically re-process the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Tobias Adler
  • Publication number: 20170083852
    Abstract: Methods and system are disclosed that improve warehouse management operations. in one aspect, an enterprise application (e.g., warehouse management system) receives a message to process a request from a programmable logic controller. In response to a failure to process the request, status identifiers may be determined. The status identifiers may indicate errors that may have resulted in response to the failure to process the request. Based on the errors, the enterprise application may be configured with time intervals to re-process the request. After a lapse of the configured time interval, the enterprise application may be asynchronously triggered to automatically re-process the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventor: TOBIAS ADLER
  • Patent number: 9536767
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a material handling method of performing by means of an automatic mechanical material handling equipment controlled by a control system at least a first and a second access task for accessing respectively at least a first and at least a second article stored in a material handling storage system, the first and second access tasks having been assigned a first and a second execution priority respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Tobias Adler, Oliver Radmann
  • Publication number: 20160379161
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a material handling method of performing by means of an automatic mechanical material handling equipment controlled by a control system at least a first and a second access task for accessing respectively at least a first and at least a second article stored in a material handling storage system, the first and second access tasks having been assigned a first and a second execution priority respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: SAP SE
    Inventors: Tobias ADLER, Oliver RADMANN
  • Patent number: 9495656
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a material handling method of performing by means of an automatic mechanical material handling equipment controlled by a control system at least a first and a second access task for accessing respectively at least a first and at least a second article stored in a material handling storage system, the first and second access tasks having been assigned a first and a second execution priority respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Tobias Adler, Oliver Radmann
  • Publication number: 20160101937
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a material handling method of performing by means of an automatic mechanical material handling equipment controlled by a control system at least a first and a second access task for accessing respectively at least a first and at least a second article stored in a material handling storage system, the first and second access tasks having been assigned a first and a second execution priority respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Tobias ADLER, Oliver RADMANN
  • Publication number: 20160086119
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable mediums having program instructions thereon, provide for equally distributing workloads in a warehouse. In an embodiment, the workloads are distributed to the resources/employees so that there are no overloads at certain points in time as well as no idle times. In an embodiment, the equal distribution of the workload can be defined for different activity areas corresponding to a single team. In an embodiment, the equal distribution of the workload can be defined subject to a variable available capacity (i.e., the available capacity is not constant over time but has some breaks/reduced capacity in between, e.g., lunch break). Further, in an embodiment, the distribution of the workload can be defined subject to warehouse area constraints (e.g., size of the aisles).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Markus Puchta, Sebastian Wolf, Tobias Adler