Patent ID: 7962485

Claim:
A method of recording an inventory of items, comprising: receiving over a network at an inventory system, the inventory system including at least in part one or more computing devices, a first location for a first user; registering the first user, using the inventory system, wherein the registration of the first user includes, at least in part, storing the first user's first location in computer readable memory; providing an inventory software program to a mobile device associated with the first user, wherein the inventory software program is: preinstalled on the mobile device, wherein the mobile device is provided to the first user after the inventory software program is installed on the mobile device, transmitted to the mobile device of the first user, or, partially preinstalled on the mobile device and partially transmitted to the mobile device of the first user; partly causing an image capture instruction to be presented to the first user; receiving at the inventory system: an image wherein the image is from the first user's mobile device, a geographic location of the first user's mobile device wherein the geographic location is determined at least in part using GPS (Global Position Satellite) location information and corresponds to at least in part the geographic location of the mobile device at substantially the same time the image was taken by the first user using the first user's mobile device, and, audio communications from the first user; interpreting the audio communications using speech recognition; storing in computer readable memory the image received from the first user's mobile device, the geographic location associated with the image, and a room label associated with the image if assigned; determining, using the inventory system, if the geographic location associated with the image from the first user's mobile device corresponds to the first user's registered first location; storing in computer readable memory an indication as to whether the geographic location associated with the image from the first user's mobile device corresponds to the first user's registered first location; and providing a user interface via which the image can be viewed.