Systems and methods for routing data in distributed environments
Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number:
12028205
Described in detail herein are systems and methods for routing data in a distributed environment. A controller can maintain an inactive state. A terminal can receive a request associated with a physical object. The terminal can be communicatively coupled to a cloud computing system. The terminal can attempt to transmit the request to the cloud computing system. A router communicatively coupled to the controller and cloud computing system can attempt to initiate communication between the…
Systems and methods for ingredient-to-product mapping
Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number:
12026765
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, cause the one or more processors to perform: identifying each ingredient in an ingredient list of a recipe published on a webpage by identifying query strings from content on the webpage associated with one or more ingredients of the recipe; extracting, using an iterative process, respective ingredients from…
Systems and methods for identifying and using micro-intents
Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number:
12026728
Systems and methods including one or more processing modules and one or more non-transitory storage modules storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processing modules and perform acts of accessing first transaction data stored in a transaction database, the first transaction data describing first transactions for first items from first users; determining, using the first transaction data, first micro-intents associated with the first transaction data; grouping…
Systems and methods for verifying integrity of associate training
Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number:
12026676
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to verifying integrity of associate training. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for verifying integrity of associate training at a facility including a plurality of wireless devices; a plurality of sensors; one or more databases; and a control circuit. By one approach; the control circuit is configured to: receive first and second associate identifiers; determine first, second, and third areas;…
Outbound hazmat handling system
Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number:
12026657
A system for handling hazmat products in a fulfillment center. The system includes a conveyance and packing equipment assembly that facilitates physical acquisition and consolidation of inventory items into a container, a labeling applicator that automatically applies hazmat labels, a scan tunnel, and a server. The server includes computing hardware of a processor, a memory, an input/output engine, a database, and a hazmat handling engine. The input/output engine is configured to receive…
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…
Methods and apparatuses for identifying privacy-sensitive users in recommender systems
Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number:
12026285
A privacy system includes a computing device configured to obtain user transactional data characterizing at least one transaction of a user on an ecommerce marketplace and to determine a privacy vulnerability score of the user by comparing the transactional data to a user vulnerability distribution. The computing device is also configured to send the privacy vulnerability score to a personalization engine.
Refrigeration heat reclaim
Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number:
12025357
Provided are a refrigeration heat reclaim unit and method, comprising a heat exchanger, comprising a refrigerant inlet that receives a flow of refrigerant having a first state; a refrigerant outlet that outputs the flow of refrigerant having a second state; a water loop inlet that receives a flow of liquid at a first temperature; a water loop outlet that outputs the flow of liquid from the reclaim heat exchanger at a second temperature that is greater than the first temperature in…
Preassembled modular vacuum plumbing assembly
Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number:
12024868
A modular vacuum plumbing assembly includes a frame, a water supply conduit attached to the frame, and a wastewater outlet conduit attached to the frame. Water travels from a water supply system to a plumbing fixture via the water supply conduit and wastewater travels away from the plumbing fixture via the wastewater outlet conduit.
System for item placement into non-rigid containers
Granted: June 25, 2024
Patent Number:
12020451
Examples provide a system and method for autonomously placing items into non-rigid containers. An image analysis component analyzes image data generated by one or more cameras associated with picked items ready for bagging and/or a non-rigid container, such as, but not limited to, a bag. The image analysis component generates dynamic placement data identifying how much space is available inside the bag, bag tension, and/or contents of the bag. A dynamic placement component generates a…
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 benefit affinity using trained affinity models
Granted: June 25, 2024
Patent Number:
12020276
Systems and methods utilizing a classification model and a ranking model are disclosed. A user identifier is received and a user profile is generated. The user profile includes a plurality of user features. The user profile is classified into a classification using a trained classification model. The trained classification model receives a first subset of the plurality of user features. A set of communication elements is ranked using a trained ranking model. The trained ranking model…
Methods and apparatus for automatic sale forecasts using machine learning processes
Granted: June 25, 2024
Patent Number:
12020191
This application relates to employing trained machine learning processes to predict sales across various sale channels. For example, a computing device may generate features based on historical sales information, and trains the machine learning processes based on the generated features. In some examples, the computing device determines fixed cost effects from selling items across various sales channels, and adjusts the sales information based on the fixed cost effects. The computing…
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…
Methods and apparatus for automatically providing personalized search results
Granted: June 25, 2024
Patent Number:
12019639
This application relates to apparatus and methods for generating preference profiles that may be used to rank search results. In some examples, a computing device obtains browsing session data and determines items that were engaged, such as items that were viewed or clicked. The computing device obtains item property data, such as product descriptions, for the items, and applies a dependency parser to the item property data to identify portions that include certain words, such as nouns…
Systems and methods for altering a graphical user interface based on exploration of search query ranking
Granted: June 25, 2024
Patent Number:
12019637
A systems 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 in-session user activity information, the in-session user activity information comprising a user search query from a user and a ranked list of products to be displayed to the user based on the user search query, and a product of the products being part of a boost category; determining a…
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…
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 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…
