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.
Systems and methods for providing search results based on a primary intent
Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11947548
This application relates to systems and methods for providing search results based on a primary intent. In some examples, a disclosed system includes a memory resource storing instructions; and one or more processors coupled to the memory resource. The one or more processors are configured to execute the instructions to: receive, from a user, a search query including a plurality of words, identify a plurality of intention terms from the words of the search query, compute, for each of the…
Automatically rectifying in real-time anomalies in natural language processing systems
Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11948573
A method for automatically rectifying in real-time anomalies in natural language processing systems. The method can include determining an output corresponding to a user request from a user device for a user based on a new request template or machine learning. The method further can include retrieving one or more entity rules corresponding to entity data of the user request. The method also can include overwriting entity information of the entity data corresponding to the one or more…
System and method for optimizing container contents
Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11948375
The contents of totes and the amount a tote container is filled are monitored. A central database stores product dimensions and tote dimensions as well as a percentage of which a tote is to be filled. Image scanners that obtain three-dimensional images are used to determine if the actual dimensions of the tote, the product, and the fill amount are consistent with the expected or optimal values of these characteristics. When there is a discrepancy between measured and expected values,…
Systems and methods for detecting text of interest
Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11948374
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to train a machine learning algorithm to detect text of interest. In some embodiments, there is provided a system to detect vertically oriented text of interest including a first data set comprising a plurality of captured digital images each depicting an object of interest and a second data set comprising a plurality of augmented digital images each depicting a captured digital image augmented with a synthetic text…
Automatically merging pickup and delivery time slots from nearby stores
Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11948185
A method being implemented via execution of computing instructions configured to run at one or more processors. The method can include determining a primary store and one or more secondary stores for pickup of an order of a user, based at least in part on a pickup type of the order. The method also can include determining real-time availabilities of first time slots at the primary store and real-time availabilities of second time slots at the one or more secondary stores. The method…
Multi-path complimentary items recommendations
Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11948179
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 generating personalized product-type metrics for the user based at least in part on a user embedding for the user and product-type embedding Gaussian mixture distributions; determining top product types based at least in part on personalized product-type complementarity metrics generated using the…
Automatically measuring quality scores for connected components using machine learning models
Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11948164
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: generating linkage scores between nodes at least based on a machine learning model; creating links between the nodes to form connected components based on the linkage scores exceeding a predetermined threshold; generating an actual matching linkage set of the nodes linked in the connected components by…
Systems and methods of merging retail products between containers to optimize storing capacity of retail storage facilities
Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11948120
Automated storage and retrieval systems for managing storage of inventory at a retail facility include a storage structure with storage locations configured to store containers that contain retail products, and a conveying system that conveys the containers between the storage locations and a product picking station. A processor-based control circuit analyzes one or more business rules governing product merging between the containers being conveyed toward the picking station by the…
Methods and apparatus for automatic permission assignment
Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11947638
This application relates to apparatus and methods for automatically determining and enforcing user permissions for applications and application features. In some embodiments, a system includes a server and a user device. The server may determine a user of the user device based on receiving login credential data. The server may further obtain user attributes for the user including, in some examples, a location of the user. The server may further obtain an attribute-based control policy…
Enhanced spoken language understanding using joint model training
Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number:
11942080
Systems and methods for improved Spoken Language Understanding (“SLU”) are provided. The methods may comprise receiving an utterance from a user, contextualizing a plurality of words in the utterance, providing the contextualized words to the slot detector to determine the probability of a word forming the beginning or end of a slot to determine slots and nested slots, an intent classifier to determine the probability of a word conveying a user intent, and a slot classifier that…
Systems and methods for extracting patches from digital images
Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number:
11941905
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 acts of receiving one or more digital images; identifying a foreground of the one or more digital images; analyzing the foreground of the one or more digital images to identify a skin region in the foreground of the one or more digital images; when the skin region is identified, clustering a non-skin…
Systems and methods for automatically requesting delivery drivers for online orders
Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number:
11941577
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, from one or more electronic devices of one or more users, one or more orders for pickup at a location during a first window of time; at a first time during the first window of time, determining when a designated pickup area at the location exceeds a predetermined level of congestion…
Automatic personalized image-based search
Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number:
11941044
A method including training a recurrent neural network model to create a trained model based at least in part on: (a) first images associated with first items on a website, (b) first search terms used by users of the website to search for the first items on the website, and (c) personal features of the users. The method also can include receiving an input image that was uploaded by a current user. The method additionally can include obtaining a user encoded representation vector for the…
Manifold water distribution device
Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number:
D1019888
Systems and methods for automatically generating fraud strategies
Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number:
11935054
This application relates to systems and methods for automatically generating fraud strategies. A system may comprise customer computing devices, a database, and retailer computing device(s). The retailer computing device(s) are configured to receive data related to customer transactions, calculate a negative reaction score, negative resolution score, anomaly score, and impact score for at least one value of the received data, determine whether the calculated scores are greater than or…
Systems and methods for building image databases to facilitate computer vision-based consumer product identification
Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number:
11934484
Systems and methods for facilitating computer-vision-based detection and identification of consumer products comprise a support surface for supporting thereon one or more consumer products to be detected and a plurality of digital cameras each arranged at a different height relative to the support surface and positioned such that a field of view of each of the digital cameras includes the consumer product(s) located on the support surface. Movement of the support surface and/or the…
Systems and methods for componentization and plug and play workflows
Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number:
11934420
Systems and methods for generating and implementing reusable interface components is disclosed. A schema is loaded from a repository. The schema defines one or more containers configured to receive a component therein. At least one component is selected for insertion into a first container defined by the schema. The at least one component includes a frontend portion and a backend portion. The fronted portion defines at least one customization of the component. The at least one…
Packaging
Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number:
D1018295
Method and apparatus for automatically providing advertisements
Granted: March 12, 2024
Patent Number:
11928709
This application relates to apparatus and methods for determining data outputs to advertise on a platform such as a website. A computing device receives a website search request and determines a search term keyword. The computing device also determines a plurality of item accounts, such as sponsor campaigns, based on the search term keyword and a corresponding keyword of each item account. Each item account also includes a corresponding data output, such as a digital advertisement. The…
