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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2010
Applicants:
Mandeep Singh Arora, San Francisco, CA (US);
Allen Lwin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventors:
Mandeep Singh Arora, San Francisco, CA (US);
Allen Lwin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cantaloupe Systems, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
If a vending machine is selected for service at a particular location, other vending machines at the same location may or may not be selected depending on the importance of minimizing the number of service visits to the other machines at the location.