Patent ID: 8191779
Filing Date: 2012-06-05
Classification: G06F,G06Q,G07F

Abstract:
1. A wireless system for managing a plurality of remote vending machines, comprising: an enterprise control center including a plurality of graphical user interfaces each of which is adapted to control aspects in real-time of the customer interaction of selectable ones of the plurality of remote vending machines; and a two-way wireless network coupling said enterprise control center and the plurality of remote vending machines; wherein each of the plurality of remote vending machines is wirelessly coupled by a first coupling means to said wireless network which is, in turn, coupled by a second coupling means to a large-scale network, wherein the enterprise control center is adapted to provide one or more graphical user interfaces by which a user may add an alarm to an alarm class list based on a selection of an alarm type for the alarm class and a selection of an alarm notification for the alarm class.