Walmart Patent Grants

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…

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.

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…

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…

Nested blockchain system

Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number: 11985248
Described in detail herein is a nested blockchain system. The nested blockchain system can include distributed nodes in a network. A node is configured to generate a master cryptographically verifiable distributed ledger represented by a sequence of blocks. The node spawns a first sub cryptographically verifiable ledger represented by a first genesis block containing a hash value referencing the first block generated in the master cryptographically verifiable ledger, in response to 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…

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…

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…

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…