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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2018
Cantaloupe Systems, Inc, San FRancisco, CA (US);
Mandeep Arora, San Francisco, CA (US);
Anant Agrawal, San Francisco, CA (US);
Iryna Bandura, Kyiv, UA;
Oleksa Chvala, Kyiv, UA;
Allen Aung Kyaw Lwin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Boris Glants, Mt. View, CA (US);
Justin Grant, Berkeley, CA (US);
USA TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Malvern, PA (US);
Abstract
Systems for vending products to a customer that encompasses a group of co-located vending machines managed by a vending company, a database of current inventory of products in the vending machines and customer purchase history; and the use of a personal electronic device by the customer. Embodiments include a single order by a customer from a sorted list of prior purchases, and where a single purchase comprises sub-products from multiple co-located vending machines. Embodiments include the customer selecting either products or vending machines from a list of options provided via the user interface of the personal electronic device, wherein the list of options depends on the actual available inventory in vending machines co-located with the customer, and the customer purchase history.