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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2010
Filed:
May. 02, 2008
Alan T. Rudy, New Albany, OH (US);
Alan T. Rudy, New Albany, OH (US);
IntoGreat Companies, Inc., Columbus, OH (US);
Abstract
A system for dispensing media discs comprising, in combination, a storage system for storing the media discs, a dispense system for dispensing the media discs to consumers, a disc transfer system for moving the media discs from the disc storage system to the dispense system, and a control system operably connected to the disc transfer system to selectively activate the disc transfer system to move the media discs from the disc storage system to the dispense system. An inventory management system is operably connected to the disc transfer system to selectively activate the disc transfer system to move selected ones of the media discs from the disc storage system to a holding location located outside the disc storage system for manual removal.