Vending machine service scheduling

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9286588
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14034958

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Techniques are provided for calculating vending machines' service priorities and scheduling the vending machines for service taking into account a number of factors and thresholds (520). In some embodiments, the machines (110) are subdivided into subroutes (320). Each subroute has one or more machines, and at least one subroute has a plurality of machines. The vending machine service schedule is generated by selecting the highest priority subroute (410) and selecting the machines in that subroute (420). Other subroutes can be selected (430, 440) if there is time left in the Service Period.

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CANTALOUPE INC100 DEERFIELD LANE SUITE 300 MALVERN PA 19355

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Agrawal, Anant Diamond Bar, US 20 450
Arora, Mandeep Singh Danville, US 7 25
Beaudoin, Amedee Louis Oakland, US 5 19
Cheng, Fred Aliso Viejo, US 25 705
Chu, Eric Matthew Laguna Niguel, US 4 19

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