Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Walmart Apollo, LLC

Josh Osmon

Mahesh Sundar Thangaraj

Kevin E Hill

Jie Ouyang

Zulfiqar Ali Paracha

Aaron Santavicca

Doyle Reece

Kishore Kumar Konate

Vidanage Prabuddha Mangala Chandrasiri

Michael Shawn McGuire

Anthony William Helms

Johan Christophe Baer

Derric D'souza

Allen Ashley

Kevin Hayes

A system is disclosed for providing retailer controllable access to consolidated inventory management services through a retail worker's personal smartphone. The system&#x2014;operable largely within and through the retailer's private computing network&#x2014;comprises data nodes, an enterprise service bus, and a device application. Inventory-related data is kept in the data nodes, with access thereto from suitably provisioned personal mobile devices moderated by the enterprise service bus pursuant to policies and parameters defined by the retailer. Provisioning the personal mobile device involves installation thereon of the device application. The device application launches a user interface for accessing the data nodes through the enterprise service bus, thus enabling the use on the worker's personal mobile device of retailer-specific, job-related inventory management tools.

Retail inventory management services through personal mobile devices

A method and system for automatically assigning employees to work plurality of cash registers when the employees report for work is described. The system and method automatically compares the employee's qualifications to the current operational status of a plurality of cash registers and any parameters that may govern the operation of the cash registers such as age requirements for the sale of alcohol. The system automatically assigns an employee to a cash register and transmits real time operational status of those cash registers to a supervisor via a wireless device.

System and method for assigning employees to cash registers

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Josh Osmon