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 to fulfill a picked sales order and related methods therefor
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11978108
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: receiving a request for an order comprising one or more items; determining when the order is eligible for batch picking by finding one or more other orders comprising at least one of the one or more items; and when the order is determined to be eligible for batch picking with the one or more other…
Dynamic termination zone detection system
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11978014
Examples provide a tag manager component that identifies a plurality of stationary RFID tags located within a three-dimensional space outside an item display area based on an analysis of RFID tag data associated with the plurality of RFID tag readers. A zone detection component analyzes item data associated with a plurality of items corresponding to the plurality of stationary RFID tags and location data associated with the three-dimensional space using a set of per-item criteria. The…
Automatically determining items to include in a variant group
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11977561
A method including obtaining image data and attribute information of a first item in an item catalog. The method also can include generating candidate variant items from the item catalog for the first item using a combination of (a) a k-nearest neighbors approach to search for first candidate variant items based on text embeddings for the attribute information of the first item, and (b) an elastic search approach to search for second candidate variant items based on image embeddings for…
System and method for fallback communications using composite and concurrent state machines
Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number:
11973637
Systems and methods of fallback electronic communications are disclosed. A system is configured to receive a communication campaign including data identifying at least one communication channel and implement a fallback state machine having a first composite state corresponding to the at least one communication channel. An initial electronic communication is transmitted via the at least one communication channel and an initial timer having a first predetermined timeout period is…
Methods and apparatus for fraud detection
Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number:
11972429
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 dimensionality reduction algorithm to an initial strategy. The computing device applies the modified strategy to the received return data identifying the…
Systems and methods for reconciling lottery transactions
Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number:
11972410
There are provided systems and methods relating to reconciling lottery transactions. In one form, the system includes point-of-sale (POS) systems at retail store for inputting of first lottery transaction data for lottery transactions occurring at the retail stores in which the lottery transactions correspond to lottery games being operated by a third party. It includes a POS server for extracting the first lottery transaction data and a retailer server for receiving second lottery…
Systems and methods for testing models
Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number:
11971810
This application relates to systems and methods for automatically generating experiments based on experiment requests routed to micro-services (model sub-components) using a prefix-based routing mechanism. In some examples, experiment requests may parsed to determine lower layer services (e.g., components) whose properties need to be changed for a model iteration. Prefixes in requests may be used to route the experiment requests and portions thereof to appropriate services or layers for…
Food product tray
Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number:
D1024778
Voice-enabled recipe selection
Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number:
11966964
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 receiving a voice command from a user; transforming the voice command; transforming the voice command can include using a natural language understanding and rules execution engine into (a) an intent of the user to add recipe ingredients to a cart and (b) a recipe descriptor; determining a matching…
System and method for detecting unpaid items in retail store transactions
Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number:
11966900
A transaction record is created showing a purchase transaction of a customer. A CV profile showing a list of items in the transaction obtained from images is also obtained. The items in the transaction record are compared to items on the list. When there is a discrepancy, an action to take is determined.
System and method for determining item labels based on item images
Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number:
11966434
A method including determining neighboring items from among sample items based on a respective embedding distance between a query image of a query item and a respective image of each of the neighboring items. The each of the sample items can comprise the respective image and at least one respective item label. The method further can include determining a respective normalized weight for each of the neighboring items based on the respective embedding distance between the query image and…
Methods and apparatus for datacenter monitoring
Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number:
11966280
This application relates to apparatus and methods for the monitoring of nodes within datacenters. In some examples, a computing device, such as a node, receives a monitoring file from a monitoring server, where the monitoring file includes a plurality of node health checks. The computing device is configured to execute the monitoring file based on a type of the computing device. Further, and based on the execution of the monitoring file, the computing device is configured to determine…
System and method for monitoring beverage dispenser
Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number:
11964862
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein for monitoring beverage dispenser. A system for controlling beverage quality comprises a beverage dispenser monitoring unit comprising: a plurality of weight sensors each positioned below one of a plurality of syrup containers connected to a beverage dispenser, and a first network adapter configured to communicate with a control unit. The control unit configured to detect a low weight reading from a weight sensor of the plurality of…
System for sale-restricted items management
Granted: April 16, 2024
Patent Number:
11961130
Examples provides sale-restricted items management for self-checkout. A list of sale-restricted items is displayed via a graphical user interface (GUI) provided by a user interface. A notification component transmits a notification to a user device associated with an authorized user to verify a transaction responsive to an unauthorized user selection of a sale-restricted item from the list of sale-restricted items displayed. The notification includes an identification of the selected…
Method for self-checkout with a mobile device
Granted: April 16, 2024
Patent Number:
11961061
A method for purchasing an item using a mobile device is provided. The method includes but is not limited to inputting identification information into the mobile device which identifies the item for purchase and generating an order for the item identified by the identification information. The method also includes but is not limited to displaying on a display of the mobile device an optical machine-readable representation of the order.
Methods and apparatus for natural language understanding in conversational systems using machine learning processes
Granted: April 16, 2024
Patent Number:
11960842
This application relates to apparatus and methods for natural language understanding in conversational systems using machine learning processes. In some examples, a computing device receives a request that identifies textual data. The computing device applies a natural language model to the textual data to generate first embeddings. In some examples, the natural language model is trained on retail data, such as item descriptions and chat session data. The computing device also applies a…
Automatic generation of flexible load design
Granted: April 16, 2024
Patent Number:
11960800
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 certain acts. The acts can include obtaining an original load design for loading a trailer to deliver stacks of pallets to physical stores. The load design specifies a respective floor spot assignment for each of the stacks. The original load design satisfies center-of-gravity constraints. The acts also…
Methods and apparatus for data and data request management
Granted: April 16, 2024
Patent Number:
11960466
This application relates to automatic processes that service data requests for information related to an item during varying temporal periods. For example, a computing device receives first attributes for an item, and generates a first surrogate key and a first super surrogate key based on the first attributes. Further, the computing device generates a first entry within a first table that includes the first surrogate key and the first super surrogate key. The computing device joins the…
Climbing robot with compliant pinion drive
Granted: April 9, 2024
Patent Number:
11951620
An automated order fulfillment system and mobile robot are disclosed, where the mobile robot includes a compliant drive for moving between levels of a multilevel storage structure.
