System and method for management of perpetual inventory values associated with nil picks
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12271864
An electronic indication of a nil pick is received. Item information associated with the desired product, sales data concerning the desired product, supply chain information associated with the desired product, and a perpetual inventory (PI) value of the desired product are stored. An adjustment to the PI of the desired product is blocked when a predetermined event occurs at the retail store, or when information that contradicts the validity of the nil pick is received from the retail…
Automatic generation of incremental load design
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12271662
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…
Systems and methods for a specialized computer file system
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12271342
A computer file system for managing data storage resources is provided. The system comprises storage server configured to receive data file from a client application, modify the file name to include an expiration stamp, upload the at least one data file to the data storage device, generate a file link associated with the at least one data file, and transmit the file link to the client application, wherein the at least one data file is retrievable by the end user via the file link. A…
Systems and methods for user engagement with a retailer
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12265997
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful for user engagement with a retailer. In some embodiments, a system includes an application including a set of computer program code configured to be executed by a mobile electronic device associated with a customer of the retailer. The application includes a first component and a second component. A first server includes a first control circuit and communicatively coupled to the application and configured to:…
Long term scheduling of task resources at a plurality of retail stores
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12265934
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods provide long term scheduling at a plurality of retail stores including storing a forecasted data over at least eight weekly scheduling periods; determining based on the forecasted data a first baseline hours demand value for each day of a week for each job function of a first set of job functions at a particular retail store; determining based on the forecasted data a second baseline hours demand value for each day of the week for each job…
Methods and apparatus for automatic attribute extraction for training machine learning models
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12265891
This application relates to apparatus and methods for training machine learning models using supervised, or semi-supervised, learning. In some examples, a computing device obtains training data that includes labelled, and unlabeled, data for training a machine learning model. The computing device applies the machine learning model to the training data to generate output data. The machine learning model executes with a plurality of coefficients applied to a plurality of hyperparameters.…
Methods and apparatus for recommending substitutions
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12260443
In some examples, a system may be configured to, implement a first set of operations that generate a first set of data characterizing an importance of the most recently added anchor item to the user. Further, the system may be configured to, implement a second set of operations that generate a second set of data characterizing a likelihood of an occurrence of a substitution rejection event associated with the user. That way, based on the first set of data and the second set of data, the…
Relabeling system for unlabeled items and method
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12257604
Systems, methods, and machine readable media are provided for relabeling items. A computing device is communicatively coupled to a scanning device, a printing device, and an inventory system. The computing device identifies at least one of the items as missing an expected label type, the expected label indicating a location where the item should be stocked. The system scans the item via the scanning device, queries the inventory system to determine a location for the item. The system…
Methods and apparatuses for adding supplemental order deliveries to delivery plans
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12248895
A delivery route planning system can include a computing device configured to obtain order delivery data that includes information characterizing delivery locations and delivery time windows associated with a first plurality of orders and to determine a delivery plan based on the order delivery data. The computing device can be further configured to identify recyclable time in the delivery time and to obtain supplemental order delivery data that includes information characterizing…
Systems and methods for determining an order collection start time
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12248978
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: determining, using a predictive analysis, an estimated collection time to collect one or more items of an order; receiving a mobile check-in from an electronic device indicating that a pickup is en-route to pick-up the order from the store;…
System and method for removing debris from a storage facility
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12248320
Autonomous carriers or totes that include vacuum units are provided. As the totes move or are moved through a warehouse carrying products, they collect debris. The debris can be analyzed at the tote, and actions can be performed based upon the analysis.
Re-using payment instruments for in-store use systems and methods
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12243047
Provided are a re-using e-commerce payment instruments for in-store purchasing systems and methods. A customer enters a check out and a transaction at the point of sale is started. The system receives a pairing request at a wallet processor from a customer mobile device operating a mobile application. This pairing request is created and sent in response to scanning of a code having a transaction identification. The system associates a customer payment profile with the transaction…
Systems and methods for improving search result personalization and contextualization using machine learning models
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12235914
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 cause the one or more processors to perform acts of: in response to receiving search queries at a search engine, storing search event data and ranking features in one or more databases; generating, using the search event data and the ranking features, a training dataset comprising training event samples;…
Systems and methods for retraining of machine learned systems
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12236475
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: training a visual similarity model to output one or more vector representations in a vector space; determining one or more nearest neighbors based on embeddings nearest to a respective embedding in the vector space for the item; ranking the one…
Determining brand affinity of users
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12236469
A method including a user who has brand affinities about a product brand or a product brand category. The method can include analyzing whether the user has brand affinities for the product brand or the brand category with two binary classification models that can include (a) a model one to determine an affinity to a particular product brand and (b) a model two to determine an affinity to a particular product brand category. The method also can include analyzing whether the user has…
Methods and systems for tracking carts and retail products in a shopping space
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12236412
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful for a retail facility to maintain information regarding product location, in part, from correlating a shopper's cart path and their purchased items with those of other shoppers. In some approaches, the methods and apparatuses may determine a cart path for a particular shopping cart by analyzing aisle markers captured by an image capturing device in the shopping cart, associate that cart path with the purchased items…
System and method for remote controlling of electronic shelf labels
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12236396
Systems and methods for controlling electronic shelf labels are disclosed. Product data identifying at least one product and a price of the at least one product and layout data of a physical environment including locations of one or more shelves, a respective shelf location of the at least one product, and coordinates of a plurality of electronic shelf labels is received. Coordinates for a first electronic shelf label associated with the respective shelf location is determined. A first…
Automated storage retrieval system connection and communication protocol
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12236393
Systems, method and computer readable medium are provided for automated storage and retrieval. User authentication information is received via a user interface for a dynamic storage and retrieval device. The user identity is verified based upon the authentication information and previously stored authentication data. Order information is retrieved for an order associated with the user following the verifying of user identity, the order information indicating one or more locations for…
Communications protocol method
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12236392
A communication protocol provides for a smartphone transmitting location information to a control circuit and the control circuit then determining whether the smartphone is within a predetermined distance of a particular facility, and, when true, determining whether a temporal flag is active for the smartphone. If true, the control circuit does not respond to the smartphone. When the smartphone is within the predetermined distance of the particular facility and that temporal flag is not…
Systems and methods for fulfilling product orders
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12236387
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to processing online orders. In some embodiments, a system for processing online order comprises an order processing server configured to receive an online order including grocery items and transmit, to a control circuit, the online order, the control circuit configured to receive the online order, determine the grocery items included in the online order, determine a number of grocery items that require refrigeration…
