Patent ID: 9053451
Filing Date: 2015-06-09
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for operating a warehouse management system, the method comprising: receiving one or more electronic devices sent from a service provider to a return provider; automatically determining whether the one or more electronic devices include customer personal information (CPI) utilizing the warehouse management system for a warehouse facility, wherein said determining whether the one or more electronic devices include the CPI involves the use of libraries, wherein the libraries include data and logic for detecting and removing the CPI from the one or more electronic devices, and wherein the warehouse management system is configured to receive the libraries over a network from the service provider, wherein the libraries include applications that are temporarily installed on the one or more electronic devices in order to detect and remove the CPI; electronically quarantining the one or more electronic devices in response to determining the one or more electronic devices include the CPI, wherein the electronically quarantining prevents distribution of the one or more electronic devices outside the warehouse facility associated with the warehouse management system while the CPI is present; associating quarantine information with one or more identifiers for the one or more electronic devices in the warehouse management system in response to determining the one or more electronic devices include the CPI, wherein the quarantine information indicates at least a location of the CPI in the one or more electronic devices; and removing the CPI from the one or more electronic devices determined to include the CPI; removing the quarantine information from the one or more identifiers in response to removing the CPI from the one or more electronic devices; verifying the removal of the CPI from the one or more electronic devices; processing the one or more electronic devices in the warehouse facility for additional usage utilizing the warehouse management system in response to determining the CPI has been verifiably removed from the one or more electronic devices.