Walmart Patent Grants

Processing user selectable product images and facilitating visualization-assisted virtual dressing

Granted: February 27, 2024
Patent Number: 11915352
A technique for combining first and second images respectively depicting first and second subject matter to facilitate virtual presentation. The first image is processed to identify portions or regions of the first subject matter and determine an estimated depth location of each portion or region. A composite image is generated that depicts the second subject matter overlayed, inserted or otherwise combined with the first subject matter. One or more of the portions or regions of the…

Systems, devices, and methods for scanning a shopping space

Granted: February 27, 2024
Patent Number: 11915192
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for scanning a shopping space. The system pace comprises a locomotion system of a motorized unit, a camera system, and a central computer system. The central computer system is configured to receive motorized unit location information from the locomotion system, the motorized unit location information comprises a plurality of sets of coordinates each associated with a timestamp, receive item identifier instances from the camera system, wherein each item…

Automated curbside fulfillment

Granted: February 27, 2024
Patent Number: 11915190
A system includes a processor coupled with a data store and configured to transmit an availability message to a user device and receive a pickup message from the user device. The processor is also configured to calculate an arrival time based on the initiation time, the initiation location, and a distribution center location for the distribution center and update the arrival time at continuous intervals based on real-time information. The processor is also configured to transmit a…

System and method for production readiness verification and monitoring

Granted: February 27, 2024
Patent Number: 11914981
Systems and methods for production readiness verification and monitoring are disclosed. A set of compliance requirements including one or more cloud-specific requirements and status information regarding a status of each of a plurality of clouds within a cloud environment is received. The status information includes availability of one or more servers within each of the plurality of clouds. The status information for each of the plurality of clouds is compared to the one or more…

Systems and methods for a machine learning framework

Granted: February 27, 2024
Patent Number: 11914606
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, from an extraction, transform, load (ETL) application, a matrix, which can comprise raw feature data; storing the matrix comprising the raw feature data in a standard format in the one or more non-transitory computer readable storage devices; receiving a configuration file over a…

Automated system for transporting payloads

Granted: February 27, 2024
Patent Number: 11912500
An automated warehouse storage system including a multilevel storage array is provided. Each aisle has a set of storage levels and each level has storage locations distributed along the aisle. The guideway network extending through the multilevel storage array is configured for autonomous vehicles to move along the guideway network within the multilevel storage array. The guideway network including an inter-aisle guideway spanning at least two of the multiple aisles and a set of guideway…

Systems and methods of product recognition through multi-model image processing

Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number: 11907901
In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided to recognize retail products, comprising: a model training system configured to: identify a customer; access an associated customer profile; access and apply a set of filtering rules to a product database based on customer data; generate a listing of products specific to the customer; access and apply a model training set of rules to train a machine learning model based on the listing of products and corresponding image data for each…

System, method, and computer readable medium for automatic item rankings

Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number: 11907999
This application relates to apparatus and methods for automatically determining item relevancy based on textual information. In some examples, a computing device receives a search query, and a plurality of items corresponding to the search query. The computing device may identify one or more features of the search query. The computing device may generate relevancy values for each of the items based on the features of the search query, and features of each of the plurality of items. For…

System and method for coupling a user computing device and a point of sale device

Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number: 11907998
In some embodiments, purchase systems and methods are provided. Some embodiments comprise one or more processors configured to receive, at a point of sale device, a request to use self-checkout through a user computing device; couple the point of sale device with the user computing device by: display by the point of sale device a coupling code configured to be scanned by the user computing device; receive the coupling code by a server system; and interpret, at the server system, the…

Method and system for item line assignment

Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number: 11907991
Systems and methods for item price assignment. A line recommendation engine receives unassigned records from a queue and stores one or more line recommendations for the unassigned item record in a recommendation database. The line recommendation engine can determine a new line should be recommended, and/or which existing lines the unassigned item record could be assigned to. A user interface can display the one or more line recommendations for the unassigned item record to a user and…

Order fulfillment with community-based delivery

Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number: 11907893
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for order fulfillment by community delivery. A method for product delivery comprises detecting a presence of a user device of a store customer associated with a customer profile at a location associated with a store location based on a location sensor, identifying a delivery community associated with the customer profile from a plurality of delivery communities in the community database, identifying available community delivery orders associated with…

Automated retail supply chain and inventory management system

Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number: 11905058
A system and method are disclosed for supplying one or more goods to a physical store location. The goods may be received at a distribution center (DC). At the DC, the goods may be decanted from their shipping containers into one or more sub-totes, which are contained within one or more product totes. The sub-totes may be transferred from the one or more product totes to one or more order totes based on a velocity of movement of the plurality of goods at the physical store location.

Systems and methods for high throughput cutting of sealing elements on packages

Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number: 11904490
Systems and methods described herein are optimized for cutting sealing elements on packages using optical radiation. Packages can pass through a cutting device that applies the optical radiation to damage, vaporize, or cut the sealing element (e.g., tape) on the package. The systems and methods control several aspects of the cutting process to adjust throughput, improve efficiency, and reduce line stoppages. Systems can include an in-feed conveyor that orients packages and rejects…

Systems and methods for electronic notification queues

Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number: 11899655
Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform: storing one or more notifications in a data store; receiving a new notification; determining a respective number of notifications in each respective segment of a plurality of approximately equal segments; using the respective number of notifications in each respective…

Methods and apparatus for payment transfer fraud detection

Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number: 11900386
This application relates to apparatus and methods for identifying fraudulent payment transfers. In some examples, a computing device determines payment transfer initiation features, and payment transfer reception features, based on previous payment transfer data. The computing device may train a machine learning fraud detection model with the payment transfer initiation features, and may train a machine learning fraud detection model with the payment transfer reception features. Once…

System for security scanning code with minimal user interface

Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number: 11899792
Examples provide a single-command menu option for initiating security scanning of source code without user interaction with the security scan component performing the security scan. The single-command menu option can include a single-click menu option in a graphical user interface, a command-line utility or a web interface for performing web service calls to the security scanning service(s). A user selects source code for scanning. A zip file is created for the selected source code. The…

Systems and methods for electronic notification queues

Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number: 11899655
Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform: storing one or more notifications in a data store; receiving a new notification; determining a respective number of notifications in each respective segment of a plurality of approximately equal segments; using the respective number of notifications in each respective…

Magnetic shelving fence

Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number: 11896148
A magnetic shelving fence that provides stabilization of retail products on merchandised shelving during shelving relocation. The includes an elongate multi-surfaced structure and one or more magnets. The elongate structure includes a vertical front plate, a horizontal mount plate, and an edge surround portion. The vertical front plate provides a planar barrier to merchandized product movement. The horizontal mount plate is disposed in a generally perpendicular orientation with respect…

Dogleg modular bagging area extension device

Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number: D1014159

Methods and apparatus for payment transfer fraud detection

Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number: 11900386
This application relates to apparatus and methods for identifying fraudulent payment transfers. In some examples, a computing device determines payment transfer initiation features, and payment transfer reception features, based on previous payment transfer data. The computing device may train a machine learning fraud detection model with the payment transfer initiation features, and may train a machine learning fraud detection model with the payment transfer reception features. Once…