Patent ID: 9691114
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: G06Q,G16H

Claim:
1. A method of managing an inventory of a substance stored in a container having a sensor and a transmitter, the method comprising: associating an identifier with a container system member within a dataset remote to the container; sensing, with the sensor located on the container, an indication of an attribute of the substance stored in the container; transmitting, with the transmitter located on the container, container system data including the identifier and the sensed indication of the attribute; remotely receiving the container system data including the identifier and the sensed indication of the attribute; evaluating, with a processor, at least one notification trigger rule, which defines at least one condition in which an access notification is generated, using at least the identifier and the sensed indication of the attribute; selectively generating the access notification based on the evaluation; and directing a physical operation of a domestic appliance configured to perform a physical operation on an article based at least in part on the container system data.