Patents by Inventor Wouter Van der Veen

Wouter Van der Veen 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).

  • Item tracking systems and real-time inventory management
    Patent number: 6681990
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, to support real-time inventory management. Changes to the inventory including the addition or removal of an item from the inventory are reported to the item tracking system in real-time. An inventory planner normally operates on a periodic schedule to perform inventory management functions. The inventory planner can receive alerts from an early warning agent that can cause the inventory planner to perform at least some inventory management functions, outside of its normal periodic schedule. In particular, the agent can send an alert to the inventory planner to cause the inventory planner to determine whether replenishment of store inventory is needed. To make this determination, the inventory planner can retrieve real-time inventory data from the item tracking system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: SAP Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hartmut K. Vogler, Richard J. Swan, Tao Lin, James Vrieling, R. Scott Beckett, Wouter Van der Veen, Ye Chen
  • ITEM TRACKING SYSTEMS AND REAL-TIME INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
    Publication number: 20030222141
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, to support real-time inventory management. Changes to the inventory including the addition or removal of an item from the inventory are reported to the item tracking system in real-time. An inventory planner normally operates on a periodic schedule to perform inventory management functions. The inventory planner can receive alerts from an early warning agent that can cause the inventory planner to perform at least some inventory management functions, outside of its normal periodic schedule. In particular, the agent can send an alert to the inventory planner to cause the inventory planner to determine whether replenishment of store inventory is needed. To make this determination, the inventory planner can retrieve real-time inventory data from the item tracking system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Publication date: December 4, 2003
    Inventors: Hartmut K. Vogler, Richard J. Swan, Tao Lin, James Vrieling, R. Scott Beckett, Wouter Van Der Veen, Ye Chen