Systems and methods for reservations at a vending machine

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 12125043
APP PUB NO 20190244465A1
SERIAL NO

16267039

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Systems and methods for facilitating reservations at a vending machine. The systems and methods include detecting a reservation request indicating a list of items and a purchase code and querying an inventory database to determine that the list of items are available. The systems and method also include generating a record in a reservation database corresponding to the reservation request, the record indicating a unique identifier purchase code and receiving an input indicative of the unique identifier purchase code. Additionally, the systems and methods include querying the reservation database to identify a reservation record that includes a unique identifier purchase code that matches the input unique identifier purchase code; and issuing a command to vend the list of reserved item included in the identified reservation record.

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ROMAINE EMPIRE INC2000 W FULTON STREET SUITE F-310 CHICAGO IL 60612

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Karmani, Rajesh Kumar Chicago, US 2 27
Saunders, Luke Chicago, US 7 31

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