Walmart Patent Applications

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING SUBSTITUTIONS

Granted: April 11, 2024
Application Number: 20240119504
A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations: training, using labeled training data and a list of substitutes for an item, a machine learning algorithm; determining, using the machine learning algorithm, as trained, a respective similarity score for each substitute of the list of substitutes; ranking…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING PRICE BANDS AND USER PRICE AFFINITY PREDICTIONS USING MACHINE LEARNING ARCHITECTURES AND TECHNIQUES

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240112234
A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instruction that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations: generating, using a training procedure, labels based at least in part on price band activity data from a time period; training, using the training procedure, an affinity prediction model of a machine learning architecture; analyzing, using the affinity…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ALTERING A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240111653
A system can include one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform: selectively aggregating in-session user activity of a user with historical activity data of the user into one or more respective groups based on interactions of the user with a GUI over a period of time; predicting, using a set of predictive algorithms, one or more…

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QUESTION ANSWERING

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240104624
A method including determining respective training data for each of query-type-specific answer retrieval modules. The method further can include training each of the query-type-specific answer retrieval modules. The method additionally can include determining a query type of a query from a user device for a user. The method also can include determining, in real-time and based at least in part on the query type, an answer retrieval module from the query-type-specific answer retrieval…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING CUSTOMER LIFETIME VALUE

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240104588
A system including one or more processors, and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations: segmenting each respective user of one or more users into a respective user state of one or more respective user states; predicting, using a machine learning LTV update model, a respective LTV for each respective user of the one or more users; determining…

AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF INCREMENTAL LOAD DESIGN

Granted: March 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240104259
A method including obtaining information about a trailer that has been partially loaded with preloaded stacks in a manner that deviates from an original load design. The trailer is loaded with stacks of pallets including (i) the preloaded stacks that have already been loaded in the trailer and (ii) unloaded stacks that have not yet been loaded into the trailer. The method also can include determining positions of empty floor spots remaining in the trailer. The method additionally can…

MISMATCH DETECTION MODEL

Granted: February 29, 2024
Application Number: 20240070438
A system comprising one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising: obtaining a set of items that have been grouped together as matching items in a group; generating, using an ensemble learning model, a predictive indication of a mismatched item grouped together in error as part of the set of items, wherein the…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING PRICE BANDS AND USER PRICE AFFINITY PREDICTIONS USING MACHINE LEARNING ARCHITECTURES AND TECHNIQUES

Granted: February 22, 2024
Application Number: 20240062267
A system comprising one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising: evaluating, using a price band determination model, degrees of expensiveness of items relative to each other in item type categories; generating, using the price band determination model, price bands associated with item type categories;…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED ONLINE PREDICTIONS

Granted: February 8, 2024
Application Number: 20240046317
A system can include one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including: (1) determining, by a predictive algorithm via a machine learning model, one or more predicted bids for one or more keywords in one or more campaigns; (2) adjusting the one or more predicted bids for the one or more keywords in the one or more…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED ONLINE PREDICTIONS

Granted: February 8, 2024
Application Number: 20240046317
A system can include one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including: (1) determining, by a predictive algorithm via a machine learning model, one or more predicted bids for one or more keywords in one or more campaigns; (2) adjusting the one or more predicted bids for the one or more keywords in the one or more…

INTEGRATED GATEWAY PLATFORM FOR FULFILLMENT SERVICES

Granted: February 1, 2024
Application Number: 20240039862
A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including: authenticating at least one source of online data transmissions that matches a respective computing device of a user; batching the online data transmissions into one or more micro-batches; transmitting the one or more micro-batches to one or more…

AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION OF A SHIPPING SPEED TO DISPLAY FOR AN ITEM

Granted: February 1, 2024
Application Number: 20240037493
A method including generating, by separate instances of a multi-threaded worker system, respective lists of zip codes that fulfillment nodes in a fulfillment network can deliver to via ground shipping within a first shipping time period, based at least in part on preliminary eligibility information and an evaluation of current factors. The method also can include transforming, with an aggregator system, the respective lists of zip codes to generate a mapping from each zip code in the…

INTEGRATED GATEWAY PLATFORM FOR FULFILLMENT SERVICES

Granted: February 1, 2024
Application Number: 20240039862
A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including: authenticating at least one source of online data transmissions that matches a respective computing device of a user; batching the online data transmissions into one or more micro-batches; transmitting the one or more micro-batches to one or more…

AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION OF A SHIPPING SPEED TO DISPLAY FOR AN ITEM

Granted: February 1, 2024
Application Number: 20240037493
A method including generating, by separate instances of a multi-threaded worker system, respective lists of zip codes that fulfillment nodes in a fulfillment network can deliver to via ground shipping within a first shipping time period, based at least in part on preliminary eligibility information and an evaluation of current factors. The method also can include transforming, with an aggregator system, the respective lists of zip codes to generate a mapping from each zip code in the…

IMPORTING STRUCTURED PRESCRIPTION RECORDS FROM A PRESCRIPTION LABEL ON A MEDICATION PACKAGE

Granted: January 25, 2024
Application Number: 20240029845
A system comprising one or more processors, and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising: displaying, one or more instructions on a user interface of a mobile device to instruct a user to capture each respective image of a prescription label; determining, using contrast, a location of each respective image in the set of images that…

IMPORTING STRUCTURED PRESCRIPTION RECORDS FROM A PRESCRIPTION LABEL ON A MEDICATION PACKAGE

Granted: January 25, 2024
Application Number: 20240029845
A system comprising one or more processors, and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising: displaying, one or more instructions on a user interface of a mobile device to instruct a user to capture each respective image of a prescription label; determining, using contrast, a location of each respective image in the set of images that…

AUTOMATIC STRATEGIC UPDATES OF A CONTENT CATALOG USING CONTENT PROVIDER RANKINGS AND CONFIDENCE SCORING

Granted: December 21, 2023
Application Number: 20230410176
A method including tracking a dynamic source ranking for a content provider separately by item categories of items of a content catalog. The method also can include receiving a new value to be associated with an attribute in an attribute-value pair for an item of the items. The new value can be provided by the content provider. The method additionally can include generating a priority score for the new value based on input features comprising the dynamic source ranking for the content…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING NON-COMPLIANT IMAGES USING NEURAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURES

Granted: December 14, 2023
Application Number: 20230403363
A system comprising one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising: generating, using a fingerprinting network associated with a neural network architecture, feature embeddings corresponding to images; receiving, at an electronic platform, a first non-compliant image; identifying first non-compliant content in…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INSERTING LINKS

Granted: December 7, 2023
Application Number: 20230394103
A system comprising one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage devices storing computing instructions, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising: generating a respective similarity score pair comprising an item and one or more potential matches to the item for each item in a set of items; determining a respective page number similarity score between each item and one or more of the…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY INVOKING A DELIVERY REQUEST FOR AN IN-PROGRESS ORDER

Granted: December 7, 2023
Application Number: 20230394423
A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including: receiving an order list for delivery at a delivery address; determining an estimated order collection time; continuously monitoring, in real-time, a respective location of each delivery driver of one or more delivery drivers of at least one delivery service…