U.S. Patent 7797204 was awarded to on 2010-09-14 and describes a “Distributed personal automation and shopping method, apparatus, and process.” This patent has been cited 340 times by other U.S. patents which places it in the top 500 cited patents since 2010 according to our law firm research, and makes it of the most innovative it methods for management patents in the field of electrical engineering. The abstract states:

A business method utilizing a system comprising one or more distributed computers, application software, off-the-shelf peripheral components including keyboard-and-mouseless data entry (KDE) devices, business processes, human and KDE device readable data, related information on removable data storage media or available from external databases, and existing communications systems for speeding and improving: 1) personal or business automation, efficiency and productivity, goal attainment; 2) improving, speeding and automating the person-computer interface; 3) selection, acquisition, and tracking usage of items acquired from an existing supply chain; 4) marketing items and retaining customers buying the products, controlling their usage, and disseminating information about the products. Link: U.S. Patent 7797204

This patent was originally filed on 2002-12-09 which gives it a processing time of 2836 days, compared to an average processing time of 2552 in the field. has total patents. The first named inventor is Bruce F. Balent of Long Beach, CA. The primary examiner was Matthew S Gart.

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