System and method for automatically providing relevant digital advertisements
Granted: February 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12229801
Systems and methods for automatically determining and providing digital advertisements with ensured relevancy to a search query are disclosed. In some embodiments, based on historical user session data, a query is determined to be a head query, torso query, or tail query. For each sponsored item, a relevance score is generated to represent a degree of relevancy between the sponsored item and the query, and it is determined whether the sponsored item is eligible to be recommended in…
Systems and methods for utilizing feedback data
Granted: February 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12229784
A system can receive a first set of data. The first set of data can include information indicating a first set of user sessions and for each of the first set of user sessions having an associated summary and a corresponding agent indicated intent. The system can also, based on the first set of data, determine a set of utterances and for each of the set of utterances a corresponding set of intents. Additionally, the system can receive a second set of data. The second set of data including…
Systems and methods of dynamic page layout using exploration-exploitation models
Granted: February 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12229152
Systems and methods for generating dynamic interfaces using explore-exploit models is disclosed. A first interface including a first set of content modules selected from a set of candidate content modules is generated and feedback data representative of one or more interactions with the first interface is received. The feedback data includes positive feedback and negative feedback. A set of weights for each content module is generated by a contextual explore-exploit model based on the…
Configurable manifold water distribution system
Granted: February 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12227926
Examples provide an apparatus having a first accumulator that water received from a first supply line. A first conduit connects to the first accumulator and provides a second supply line from the first accumulator to a fixture. The second accumulator receives drainage water from the fixture. The second conduit connects to the second accumulator and includes a drainage line that directs the drainage water away from the second accumulator. A pump associated with the second accumulator…
Systems and methods using deep joint variational autoencoders
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217296
Systems and methods for generating top-k recommendation using latent space representations generated by deep joint variational autoencoder processes are disclosed. A user identifier is received and a set of prior interactions associated with the user identifier is obtained. A set of latent space representations of the set of prior interactions is generated using a trained inference model. The trained inference model includes a joint variational autoencoder model. A set of k-recommended…
Method and apparatus to reduce cache stampeding
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12216576
An apparatus comprises a memory having a data cache stored therein and a control circuit operably coupled thereto. The control circuit is configured to update that data cache in accordance with a scheduled update time. In the latter regards, by one approach, the control circuit computes selected entries for the data cache prior to the scheduled update time pursuant to a prioritization scheme to provide a substitute data cache. At the scheduled update time, the control circuit switches…
Automated container cutting system and method
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12214461
An automated container cutting system includes a cutting tool configured to cut a container and a force feedback sensor operatively connected to the cutting tool. The force feedback sensor is configured to measure resistive force exerted on the cutting tool. The automated container cutting system includes a processor communicatively coupled to the force feedback sensor. The processor is configured to receive resistive force data from the force feedback sensor and determine whether the…
Systems and methods for personalizing recommendations using real-time signals of a user session
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12211082
A session-specific conversion determination system can include a computing device configured to receive real-time signals of an event occurring from a user device. The real-time signals include interaction parameters. The computing device is also configured to obtain a set of historical data based on the interaction parameters and a set of facets and generate a probability affinity for each facet of the set of facets by implementing a machine learning model using the interaction…
Systems and methods of authenticating items
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12212679
In some embodiments, systems and methods provide distributed item authentication. In some embodiments systems comprise: a housing; a set of sensor systems; a transceiver; and an authentication control circuit configured to: obtain first sensor data of an item being authenticated, obtain an initial identification of the item; access an item authentication block specific to the item; obtain a first set of authentication instructions; control one or more sensor systems in accordance with…
Systems and methods for generating a visual representation showing order availability at shopping facilities
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12211091
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to facilitating the vehicle pick up of orders at shopping facilities. In some embodiments, there is provided a system including: an electronic interface configured to receive an order corresponding to a customer; a control circuit configured to: determine the location of the customer; determine shopping facilities near the customer's location; determine time intervals when the order will be available for pick up at…
Inventory management system and method
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12211003
A system comprising a fully automated supply chain, in combination with tracking technology and the unified commerce engine (UCE). Such a system enables the exact location of every item (or each) to be tracked from the manufacturer's facility to a customer's bag. In accordance with one example, the supply chain comprises an order fulfillment system having a regional distribution center with RDC robotic automation configured to accept one or more incoming pallets, each pallet having a…
Cloud-based SFTP server system
Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number:
12206726
Examples provide a cloud-based distributed secure shell (SSH) file transfer protocol (SFTP) server system for responding to client requests. A load balancer assigns client requests to available SFTP servers within the cloud based distributed SFTP server cluster. Each SFTP server is hosted on an individual VM associated with a cloud server. An authentication service authenticates the client requests using a single user profile. A registry table on a first cloud storage maintains metadata…
System, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for generating recommendations
Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number:
12205157
This application relates to apparatus and methods for providing recommended items based on a search request. In some examples, a computing device determines a plurality of items for recommendation based on an item type in the search request from a user. The computing device then determines a model variant from a plurality of variants for each item based on a requested variant in the search request. The computing device generates item recommendations by modifying an item title for each of…
Systems and methods for inventory management
Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number:
12205075
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to inventory management. In some embodiments, an inventory management system comprises a mobile device comprising an image capture device configured to capture an image and a communications transceiver configured to transmit the image, and a control circuit configured to receive, from the mobile device, the image, detect, within the image, the first sign and the second sign, identify, based on the first sign, a…
Catchment modeling
Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number:
12205068
Examples provide catchment modeling for identifying destination locations eligible for last mile delivery from source locations, such as a store or fulfillment center. The catchment modeling system divides a catchment area associated with the source location into a plurality of geohash blocks within a polygon fence. The size of the geohash blocks varies relative to proximity of each geohash block to a fence point within a polygon fence. The plurality of blocks includes a set of inclusion…
Methods and apparatus for scheduling timeslots using machine learning processes
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12198107
This application relates to automatically scheduling timeslots, such as timeslots for scheduling item pickups and deliveries. The embodiments may employ machine learning process to determine, for each of a plurality of timeslots, a timeslot capacity. The embodiments may further determine a time as to when each of the plurality of timeslots become available for selection, such as on a webpage. In some examples, the time determined to make available for selection each of the plurality of…
Systems and methods for generating a pick-walk
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12198100
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: receiving requests for at least two pick-walks to fulfill multiple orders; mapping each of the multiple items to respective aisles within at least a single portion of the location; calculating, using core logic, a minimum distance for each one of two or more…
Systems and methods for sequential model framework for next-best user state
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12197929
Systems and methods of generating an interface including elements related to a next best state prediction are disclosed. A request for an interface including a user identifier is received. A next state prediction engine receives a sequence unit set including at least one sequence unit associated with the user identifier and a set of features associated with the at least one sequence unit and generates at least one next state prediction using a trained sequential prediction model. The…
System and method for management of perpetual inventory values based upon customer product purchases
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12190290
A data structure programmatically links the first product to a second product. The second product is historically purchased by the customer whenever the customer has also purchased the first product. A determination is made as to whether the customer purchased the second product together with the first product based upon the sales data. When the customer has failed to purchase the second product with the first product, instructions are transmitted to the retail store over the network to…
Point-of-sale system automated testing
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12190303
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to test the operation of a point-of-sale (POS) system by executing a testing routine to send signals associated with keystrokes from a POS keyboard to a POS terminal for processing in the POS system. The simulated keystroke signals have expected corresponding operations in the POS system.
