System and method for optimizing container contents
Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11948375
The contents of totes and the amount a tote container is filled are monitored. A central database stores product dimensions and tote dimensions as well as a percentage of which a tote is to be filled. Image scanners that obtain three-dimensional images are used to determine if the actual dimensions of the tote, the product, and the fill amount are consistent with the expected or optimal values of these characteristics. When there is a discrepancy between measured and expected values,…
Systems and methods for detecting text of interest
Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11948374
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to train a machine learning algorithm to detect text of interest. In some embodiments, there is provided a system to detect vertically oriented text of interest including a first data set comprising a plurality of captured digital images each depicting an object of interest and a second data set comprising a plurality of augmented digital images each depicting a captured digital image augmented with a synthetic text…
Enhanced spoken language understanding using joint model training
Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number:
11942080
Systems and methods for improved Spoken Language Understanding (“SLU”) are provided. The methods may comprise receiving an utterance from a user, contextualizing a plurality of words in the utterance, providing the contextualized words to the slot detector to determine the probability of a word forming the beginning or end of a slot to determine slots and nested slots, an intent classifier to determine the probability of a word conveying a user intent, and a slot classifier that…
Systems and methods for extracting patches from digital images
Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number:
11941905
Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform acts of receiving one or more digital images; identifying a foreground of the one or more digital images; analyzing the foreground of the one or more digital images to identify a skin region in the foreground of the one or more digital images; when the skin region is identified, clustering a non-skin…
Systems and methods for automatically requesting delivery drivers for online orders
Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number:
11941577
Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform: receiving, from one or more electronic devices of one or more users, one or more orders for pickup at a location during a first window of time; at a first time during the first window of time, determining when a designated pickup area at the location exceeds a predetermined level of congestion…
Automatic personalized image-based search
Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number:
11941044
A method including training a recurrent neural network model to create a trained model based at least in part on: (a) first images associated with first items on a website, (b) first search terms used by users of the website to search for the first items on the website, and (c) personal features of the users. The method also can include receiving an input image that was uploaded by a current user. The method additionally can include obtaining a user encoded representation vector for the…
Manifold water distribution device
Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number:
D1019888
Systems and methods for componentization and plug and play workflows
Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number:
11934420
Systems and methods for generating and implementing reusable interface components is disclosed. A schema is loaded from a repository. The schema defines one or more containers configured to receive a component therein. At least one component is selected for insertion into a first container defined by the schema. The at least one component includes a frontend portion and a backend portion. The fronted portion defines at least one customization of the component. The at least one…
Systems and methods for automatically generating fraud strategies
Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number:
11935054
This application relates to systems and methods for automatically generating fraud strategies. A system may comprise customer computing devices, a database, and retailer computing device(s). The retailer computing device(s) are configured to receive data related to customer transactions, calculate a negative reaction score, negative resolution score, anomaly score, and impact score for at least one value of the received data, determine whether the calculated scores are greater than or…
Systems and methods for building image databases to facilitate computer vision-based consumer product identification
Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number:
11934484
Systems and methods for facilitating computer-vision-based detection and identification of consumer products comprise a support surface for supporting thereon one or more consumer products to be detected and a plurality of digital cameras each arranged at a different height relative to the support surface and positioned such that a field of view of each of the digital cameras includes the consumer product(s) located on the support surface. Movement of the support surface and/or the…
Packaging
Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number:
D1018295
Methods and apparatus for determining wait times
Granted: March 12, 2024
Patent Number:
11928897
In some examples, a system may include a first computing device communicatively coupled to a second computing device. Additionally, the first computing device is configured to obtain, from the second computing device, check-in data indicating an arrival of the user of the second computing device at a first location, and in response to obtaining the check-in data, determine current wait times. Moreover, the first computing device is configured to determine a first number of customers…
Systems and methods for facilitating online search based on offline transactions
Granted: March 12, 2024
Patent Number:
11928723
This application relates to systems and methods for facilitating online search based on offline transaction data. In some examples, a disclosed system includes a computing device that is configured to: obtain an online search request that is submitted by a user to an online retailer; generate an online search result comprising a plurality of items that match the query and are available at a first physical retail store associated with the online retailer; generate online search data based…
Method and apparatus for automatically providing advertisements
Granted: March 12, 2024
Patent Number:
11928709
This application relates to apparatus and methods for determining data outputs to advertise on a platform such as a website. A computing device receives a website search request and determines a search term keyword. The computing device also determines a plurality of item accounts, such as sponsor campaigns, based on the search term keyword and a corresponding keyword of each item account. Each item account also includes a corresponding data output, such as a digital advertisement. The…
Flexible automated sorting and transport arrangement (FAST) asset monitor
Granted: March 12, 2024
Patent Number:
11928608
A disclosed system for transport asset monitoring, for example monitoring truck trailer unloading progress at large retail locations, includes an artificial intelligence (AI) solution for managing operations at a facility. The AI solution analyzes current load percentage and other data to predict availability for moving the transport asset and ability to accept a new incoming transport asset. Predictions of availability can reduce response times, resulting in higher utilization rates for…
Universal bag holder
Granted: March 5, 2024
Patent Number:
D1017173
System and method for product assortment management
Granted: March 5, 2024
Patent Number:
11922436
Approaches are provided that determine and fine-tune product assortments carried by retail stores. In aspects, the number of stores that carry the item, the sales performance of the item, the loyalty of customers to the item, whether substitutes for the item can be found, and other factors are used to determine an actions such as increasing or decreasing the shelf space for an item.
Voice and chatbot conversation builder
Granted: March 5, 2024
Patent Number:
11922141
Systems and methods are disclosed for a voice/chatbot building system. The voice/chatbot builder may involve receiving an identified intent, receiving a task related to the identified intent, and receiving a response related to both the identified intent and the task. The identified intent, task, and response may form a first conversation. The first conversation may be linked to other conversations to establish contextual relationships among conversations and determine conversation…
Systems, methods, and apparatus for updating an electronic shelf label display
Granted: March 5, 2024
Patent Number:
11922092
An electronic shelf label (ESL) system is discussed. An ESL affixed to a shelf facing assists stock associates in managing products on the shelf. More particularly, the ESL may receive and display step-by-step instructions and/or graphical depictions on a display screen of the ESL that are received from a computing device-executed optimization module. The instructions may be generated to minimize the number of required actions by the stock associate and guide the associate in arranging…
Systems and methods for categorization of ingested database entries to determine topic frequency
Granted: March 5, 2024
Patent Number:
11921754
A categorization system can include a computing device that is configured to obtain a plurality of data items over a threshold analysis period from an incoming data database in response to a threshold analysis interval elapsing. The computing device can also be configured to select a categorization model from a model database. The computing device can also be configured to, for each data item of the plurality of data items, apply the categorization model to the data item to identify at…
