Patent ID: 9613346
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: G06Q,G07F

Claim:
1. At least one non-transitory machine-readable storage medium having stored thereon data which, when processed by at least one processor of a system, causes the at least one processor to perform operations comprising: calculate inventories for first and second times respectively for each of first, second, and third vending machines (VM) in response to communications between the system and at least one telemetry module coupled to at least one of the first, second, and third VMs; calculate first space-to-sales (StS) for the first VM; calculate first rate of consumption (RoC) for the first VM; adjust the first StS for the first VM to calculate an adjusted first StS for the first VM in response to: (a) calculating the first RoC, and (b) calculating the inventory for the first time for the first VM; and generate a service route to visit the first and second VMs on a specific date, and to specifically avoid visiting the third VM on the specific date, in response to calculating the inventories for the second times for the first, second, and third VMs.