Patent ID: 8296259

Claim:
A method of recording an inventory of household items, comprising: providing an inventory software program associated with an inventory system, to a mobile device associated with a first user, wherein some or all of the inventory software program is at least in part: preinstalled on the mobile device of the first user, transmitted to the mobile device of the first user, or, preinstalled on the mobile device and transmitted to the mobile device of the first user; partly causing by the inventory system, an image capture instruction to be presented to the first user; receiving at the inventory system from the first user's mobile device, a one or more images of a one or more household items; receiving at the inventory system, a one or more audio communications from the first user; interpreting by the inventory system, the one or more audio communications from the first user using speech recognition to determine a one or more room type identifiers; storing by the inventory system in computer readable memory, the images received from the first user's mobile device that have an associated room type identifier and their associated room type identifier; automatically identifying by the inventory system, a one or more items in at least one of the images using image processing based at least in part on a dictionary of common household items associated with a room type of the associated room type identifier; storing by the inventory system in computer readable memory, the item identifiers in association with the images; providing a user interface by the inventory system via which the images, the room type identifiers associated with these images, and the item identifiers within these images can be (a) viewed, (b) edited, (c) searched or any combination of (a), (b), and (c).