Patent ID: 7155166

Claim:
An apparatus for requesting the location of items in a storage area, the apparatus comprising: a mobile computing device for accessing an entry in a list of items to be selected from item storage subareas within an item storage area, the entry being associated with an item identifier code corresponding to an item storage subarea; a detecting device for detecting selection by a user of at least one item corresponding to the entry; and a transmitter communicatively coupled to the mobile computing device for: transmitting a short-range activation signal corresponding to the item identifier code, the short-range activation signal causing an indicator device associated with the item identifier code and in physical proximity to the short-range activation signal to transmit an indicator signal in response to the short-range activation signal that indicates the location of the corresponding item storage subarea; and terminating transmission of the short-range activation signal in response to the detecting device detecting selection by the user of the at least one item corresponding to the entry.