Patent ID: 6851611
Filing Date: 2005-02-08
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A system for assembling, accessing and maintaining a portable personal inventory, comprising: a hand-held controller device providing data processing circuitry, a power supply, a display, a means for manual data entry; incorporating a barcode scanner; providing software enabling said controller to interpret Universal Product Codes and other barcodes, and to accept data input entered by said means of manual data entry, offering information in human-readable form on said display, which said software decodes by acting upon one or more custom databases, to be supplied by any of a multitude of sources offering preexisting databases or from purpose-built databases; providing a machine-readable memory store, including; at least one integral custom-made decoding database; at least one dynamic memory storage area, said dynamic memory storage area storing one or more editable databases, including a plurality of inventory identification codes and, further incorporating software enabling access to said dynamic databases to allow them to be edited in order to keep them up to date, and to allow them to be queried in order to display information for said user.