Walmart Patent Grants

Automated integration system

Granted: July 30, 2024
Patent Number: 12051097
Automated integration systems and methods using a broker system to enable the integration of a user's stored online session with a current session on a computing device in a physical facility are discussed.

Systems and methods for vehicle routing

Granted: July 30, 2024
Patent Number: 12051036
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 receiving one or more orders comprising a list of one or more pallets; grouping each pallet of the one or more pallets into one or more groups using one or more respective qualities of each respective pallet; for each group of the one or more groups, building one…

Systems and methods for data validation

Granted: July 30, 2024
Patent Number: 12050550
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to validating migrated data. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for validating migrated data including a control circuit configured to migrate data from a first database platform to a second database platform and validate the migrated data. The control circuit configured to transmit a message indicating a mismatch in response to a determination that a first single aggregated hash value does not match…

Temperature-controlled receiving tunnel

Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number: 12043160
Examples provide a system for a temperature-controlled receiving tunnel. A main body includes an interior compartment and a set of adjustable bulkheads configured to create a set of temperature-controlled zones within the interior compartment. A set of cooling devices are configured to adjust an internal temperature of the set of temperature-controlled zones within the interior compartment. A control device analyzes dynamic truck delivery data and ambient temperature data to generate a…

Systems and methods for network incident management

Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number: 12047260
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein for network incident management. A method for network incident management comprises aggregating network metrics associated with a monitored network in a historical network data database, identifying incidents based on the network metrics, generating a training data set based on the network metrics and the incidents, wherein the training data set comprises time series of network metrics as training input and incidents as labels,…

System and method for fulfilling prescriptions

Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number: 12046340
A control circuit applies images obtained from the mobile electronic device to a trained model and responsively receiving prescription information. The prescription information indicates contents of the prescription, whether a prescription transfer is needed, and whether a prescription refill is needed. The control circuit determines an action based upon an analysis of the prescription information. The action is taken to electronically instruct a human or robot to fulfill the…

Apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium for facilitating electronic webpage purchases

Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number: 12045869
A webpage serving system is provided and generally includes a server and a computing device. The server may receive a webpage data request for a webpage from the computing device. In response, the server may transmit data identifying a webpage that allows a plurality of items to be added to an online shopping cart in one transaction. The data may include a document, such as an HTML document, based on the type of webpage requested. The document may include instructions to download a…

System and method for presenting tire-related information to customers

Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number: 12045866
A cloud-based system for use by retail store employees or customers at any location to facilitate the sale of automotive tires to consumers is provided. The system accesses multiple independent tire inventory systems from different distributors/manufacturers and provides a personalized set of recommendation tire options and accompanying TPMS service packs.

Systems and methods of implementing a distributed retail point-of-sale hardware management network

Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number: 12045792
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to establish retail point-of-sale (POS) hardware management systems, comprising: an intermediary system control circuit configured to execute computer program modules comprising: a hardware management module configured to operate as an intermediary module between multiple different sets of client POS systems, a plurality of different sets of hardware systems, and a plurality of shared resource applications. The…

Autonomous storage and retrieval tower

Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number: 12045769
Method and systems for an autonomous storage and retrieval tower integrated with a fulfillment system.

Methods and apparatus for determining item affinities associated with online chat sessions

Granted: July 16, 2024
Patent Number: 12039587
In some examples, at least one processor executes instructions to, during a chat session, obtain, from a computing device of a first user, session data associated with the chat session and a first user, obtain a first set of data identifying a set of price drop items associated with the chat session, and obtain a second set of data identifying a set of attribute values associated with one or more attribute features of each item type. Based on the first set of data and the second set of…

Systems and methods for query engine analysis

Granted: July 16, 2024
Patent Number: 12038975
Systems and methods 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, perform: receiving historical in-session user activity information; receiving, via a graphical user interface (GUI) of a user device, a partial search query from a user; analyzing the partial search query based on the historical in-session user activity information using one or more query suggestion…

Predictive demand-based produce ripening system

Granted: July 16, 2024
Patent Number: 12035740
Examples provide a fruit ripening rack having a plurality of chambers for on-site produce ripening at a retail location. A controller component generates predicted demand for ripened fruit on a selected date at a selected location based on transaction history data and/or seasonal demand. The controller component calculates the quantity of fruit based on the predicted demand. The controller component determines conditions within each chamber to accelerate ripening of the calculated…

Systems and methods for processing emergency alert notifications

Granted: July 9, 2024
Patent Number: 12033493
In some embodiments, methods and systems are provided for managing emergency notifications and incident reports at a commercial facility. A graphical interface enables a worker associated with a facility to input information regarding an ongoing/impending emergency event, e.g., Active Threat, Acts of Violence, Fire/Explosion, Injury, Power Failure, Missing Child, Severe Weather, Robbery, Hazmat, Bomb Threat, Covid-19, Store Closure, Special Events etc. This information is processed via…

Perceived value attribution model

Granted: July 9, 2024
Patent Number: 12033179
A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform: tracking touchpoints by a user over a first time period; after receiving an order, determining, using a machine-learning model, a respective contribution of each of the touchpoints, wherein the machine-learning model is trained to predict a probability of the user placing the order during a second time…

Automatic resolution of the explore-exploit decision in omnichannel settings

Granted: July 9, 2024
Patent Number: 12033178
A method including tracking impression response data in response to online impressions of content elements displayed to users of a website. The method also can include performing a classification of the users based on the impression response data. The method additionally can include generating a webpage of the website to comprise a content element selected from among the content elements based on the classification of a user of the users. Other embodiments are described.

Image searching using a full-text search engine

Granted: July 9, 2024
Patent Number: 12032626
A method including pre-screening second images from a database for a search result based on a first image and also based on respective substring distances between first binary substrings for the first image and respective second binary substrings for each of the second images. The method further can include after the pre-screening, determining a respective image distance for each third image of third images of the search result, wherein the respective image distance is between the first…

Systems and methods for generating query suggestions

Granted: July 9, 2024
Patent Number: 12032608
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to generating query suggestions. In some embodiments, a system for generating query suggestions for retail comprises a database comprising a query index including queries and query scores, and a control circuit configured to receive a query prefix from a user interface of a retail channel, retrieve, from the query index and based on the query prefix, query correction candidates, calculate edit distances for each of…

Display screen with graphical user interface

Granted: July 9, 2024
Patent Number: D1034627

Personalizing user interface displays in real-time

Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number: 12026357
A method implemented via execution of computing instructions configured to run at one or more processors and stored at one or more non-transitory computer-readable media. The method can include receiving, via a computer network, a user interaction signal from a user device for a user. The method further can include after receiving the user interaction signal, determining, in real-time via a machine learning model, a plurality of user intent labels based at least in part on transaction…