Product database systems and methods enabling the filtering of products and enhancing customer access
Granted: June 25, 2024
Patent Number:
12020313
In some embodiments, systems manage databases for multiple event shopping, comprising: a plurality of distributed database management systems comprising: a management control circuit; a filter control circuit; customer event databases; and a plurality of product databases maintaining current product information sets, each product information set comprises: product information corresponding to one of the hundreds of thousands of retail products, and an association to at least one of a…
Systems and methods for identifying incidents using social media
Granted: June 25, 2024
Patent Number:
12019697
Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are provided for identifying violent or other specified types of incidents. An exemplary system captures social media data from at least one source relating to an incident occurring at one of a group of predetermined locations, The exemplary system processes the social media data to determine a severity and location of a violent incident and clusters multiple reports of a single incident. The exemplary system further displays a location of the…
Customized item self-returns system
Granted: June 18, 2024
Patent Number:
12014380
Examples provide customized authorization of item self-returns. A customized returns manager component calculates a customized return-trust score and a per-item return value based on analysis of item data and transaction history data. If a per-user return-trust score is within an unacceptable threshold range or an item value is within an unacceptable threshold value range, a second user is assigned to assist a first user with completion of the proposed return of the selected item. If the…
Systems, devices, and methods for estimating stock level with depth sensor
Granted: June 18, 2024
Patent Number:
12014320
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for scanning a shopping space. The system comprises a locomotion system, a 3D scanner system, and a central computer system. The locomotion system of a motorized unit comprises a locomotion controller and a motor. The 3D scanner system comprises a depth sensor and a 3D scanner processor configured to identify a 3D space associated with a storage area, estimate an occupied volume in the 3D space associated with the storage area based on a 3D scan from the…
Automatically planning delivery routes using clustering
Granted: June 18, 2024
Patent Number:
12014316
A method including planning delivery routes using clustering. The method can include generating clusters for nodes for order data based, at least in part, on (a) location information of the nodes and (b) load capacity information of delivery vehicles. The method also can include determining a respective centroid for each of the clusters. Further, the method can include computing a node-cluster distance matrix. Additionally, the method can include reassigning the nodes to the clusters…
Automatically scheduling and route planning for service providers
Granted: June 18, 2024
Patent Number:
12014298
A system 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: determining one or more work orders for a service provider; determining an optimal service route for the one or more work orders; updating an available time slot in a work schedule of the service provider; and transmitting the work schedule updated with the optimal service route to be displayed on a…
Whole page personalization with cyclic dependencies
Granted: June 18, 2024
Patent Number:
12013915
A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when run on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform functions including: reconfiguring a webpage as an undirected graph; identifying a cyclic dependency in the undirected graph; iterating processing one or more inferences over the cyclic dependency for each pair of the nodes of the set of the nodes; breaking one or more of…
Product conveyor systems and methods of controlling conveyor systems
Granted: June 18, 2024
Patent Number:
12012292
In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided to control a product distribution conveyor system comprising: a conveyor control circuit; a product feed conveyor system; conveyor lane systems cooperated with the conveyor lane system; routing systems that cause movement of respective products from the feed conveyor system to one of the conveyor lane systems; and a plurality of sensor systems; wherein the conveyor control circuit is further configured to enhance throughput of the at…
Pharmacy SIG codes auto-populating system
Granted: June 11, 2024
Patent Number:
12009091
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are configured to auto-populate pharmacy SIG codes based on pattern matching model in a pharmacy system. The prescriptions including one or more fields of prescription information in natural language are received in the system. The prescription information can be parsed according to rule-based pattern matching model. The parsed prescription information can be mapped to a token SIG using rule-based pattern matching model dictionaries. A…
Opportunistic charging system for an automated storage and retrieval system
Granted: June 11, 2024
Patent Number:
12009678
An opportunistic rail charging system is disclosed for recharging power supplies on mobile robots transporting goods within an automated order fulfillment system. Individual chargers may be incorporated into each mobile robot for converting a facility line voltage from the charge rail to a voltage for which the rechargeable power supplies on each mobile robot are rated.
Systems and methods for estimating personal replenishment cycles
Granted: June 11, 2024
Patent Number:
12008625
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: coordinating displaying a personalized list of recommended items on a graphical user interface of a user device of a user; determining a personal replenishment cycle for an item of a set of items previously purchased by the user; increasing available storage space in the one or more non-transitory…
Methods and apparatuses for recommending substitutions made during order fulfillment processes
Granted: June 11, 2024
Patent Number:
12008622
A system includes a computing device configured to obtain item attribute data that corresponds to a characteristic of an item ordered by a customer on an e-commerce platform and a common characteristic of a plurality of substitution items. The computing device is also configured to obtain customer attribute data identifying preferences of the customer and to determine a preference score for each substitution item in the plurality of substitution items based on the item attribute data and…
Systems and methods for determining and utilizing search token importance using machine learning architectures
Granted: June 11, 2024
Patent Number:
12008054
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 execute functions comprising: receiving, at a search engine, a search query comprising tokens; determining, using a weight determination model, token weights for the tokens included in the search query; comparing the token weights associated with the tokens to a probability threshold; identifying the tokens…
Storage and retrieval system
Granted: June 11, 2024
Patent Number:
12006149
A system and method for storage and retrieval are provided. The system includes a multi-level storage structure, and mobile robots configured to pick, transport and place one or more tote, container, or object. This system and method can be used in order-fulfillment applications in which one or more workstations accommodate a picker that transports one or more eaches from a tote on one of the autonomous mobile robots to a put location, and an input/output interface induct material into…
Systems and methods for checking and confirming the purchase of merchandise items
Granted: June 4, 2024
Patent Number:
12002080
There are provided systems and methods relating to checking and confirming merchandise purchased at shopping facilities. In one form, the system includes: a shopping cart containing merchandise items to be purchased; a sales transaction database; a point-of-sales system that creates transaction records identified by transaction identifiers; and a mobile device used by an employee that includes a sensor to scan a paper or digital receipt to obtain the transaction identifier and a camera…
Methods and apparatus for fraud detection
Granted: May 28, 2024
Patent Number:
11995659
This application relates to apparatus and methods for identifying fraudulent transactions. A computing device receives return data identifying the return of at least one item. The computing device obtains modified strategy data identifying at least one rule of a modified strategy. The rule may be based on the application of at least one discrete stochastic gradient descent algorithm to an initial strategy. The computing device applies the modified strategy to the received return data…
Systems and methods for removing non-conforming web text
Granted: May 21, 2024
Patent Number:
11989221
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: parsing one or more web texts; determining a respective web text sentiment score for each respective web text of the one or more web texts, as parsed; creating a ranked list of one or more match words in the one or more web texts; scoring the one or more match words in the ranked list of the one or…
Systems and methods for automatically annotating images
Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number:
11983216
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to automatically annotating images. In some embodiments, a system for automatically annotating images comprises a database, wherein the database is configured to store images and annotations for the images and a control circuit, wherein the control circuit is communicatively coupled to the database, and wherein the control circuit is configured to retrieve, from the database, an image, generate, based on the image, a…
Systems and methods for detecting inbound and outbound traffic at a facility
Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number:
11983751
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to detecting inbound and outbound traffic. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for detecting inbound and outbound traffic at a facility including a video camera and a control circuit configured to detect a human and estimate a location of the human; determine whether the detected human is inbound or outbound the facility based on a relative movement of the detected human within a first region, a second…
System and method for data-driven insight into stocking out-of-stock shelves
Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number:
11983727
In various examples, a system identify a first issue object associated with the alert by making a first set of determinations, based on an alert of an active issue of a system resource. Additionally, the system can determine whether the active issue associated with the first issue object can be automatically corrected by one or more self-healing processes, based on the first issue object. Moreover, the system can implement the one or more self-healing processes, based on determining that…
