Patent ID: 9717357
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: A47G,G08B

Claim:
1. A system, comprising: one or more processors communicatively connected with a memory, one or more output interfaces, one or more connectivity interfaces and one or more sensors attached to a clothing frame; the one or more sensors operative to sense one or more indicators of a status of a clothing item attached to the clothing frame; the one or more sensors further comprising a radio frequency identifier reader installed within the one or more sensors attached to the clothing frame and operative to read an identifier for the clothing item from a radio frequency identifier chip on the clothing item; the one or more processors operative to determine status information indicating a condition of the clothing item based on the one or more indicators; the one or more processors operative to selectively adjust an output interface to display the status information; the one or more processors operative to communicate the status information to one or more additional clothing frames via the one or more connectivity interfaces; the one or more processors operative to communicate the identifier via the one or more connectivity interfaces to a monitoring system, wherein the monitoring system accesses additional information associated with the identifier from a wardrobe database of a history of each detection of the identifier and broadcasts the identifier and the additional information to the clothing hangar and to one or more additional clothing hangers to update one or more additional inventory databases with the identifier and the additional information in one or more additional memories; and the one or more processors operative to update an inventory database with the identifier and with the additional information, received from the monitoring system via the one or more connectivity interfaces, in the one or more memories to locally maintain an updated list of inventory items.