Systems and methods of product recognition through multi-model image processing
Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number:
11907901
In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided to recognize retail products, comprising: a model training system configured to: identify a customer; access an associated customer profile; access and apply a set of filtering rules to a product database based on customer data; generate a listing of products specific to the customer; access and apply a model training set of rules to train a machine learning model based on the listing of products and corresponding image data for each…
Order fulfillment with community-based delivery
Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number:
11907893
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for order fulfillment by community delivery. A method for product delivery comprises detecting a presence of a user device of a store customer associated with a customer profile at a location associated with a store location based on a location sensor, identifying a delivery community associated with the customer profile from a plurality of delivery communities in the community database, identifying available community delivery orders associated with…
Automated retail supply chain and inventory management system
Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number:
11905058
A system and method are disclosed for supplying one or more goods to a physical store location. The goods may be received at a distribution center (DC). At the DC, the goods may be decanted from their shipping containers into one or more sub-totes, which are contained within one or more product totes. The sub-totes may be transferred from the one or more product totes to one or more order totes based on a velocity of movement of the plurality of goods at the physical store location.
Systems and methods for high throughput cutting of sealing elements on packages
Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number:
11904490
Systems and methods described herein are optimized for cutting sealing elements on packages using optical radiation. Packages can pass through a cutting device that applies the optical radiation to damage, vaporize, or cut the sealing element (e.g., tape) on the package. The systems and methods control several aspects of the cutting process to adjust throughput, improve efficiency, and reduce line stoppages. Systems can include an in-feed conveyor that orients packages and rejects…
Dogleg modular bagging area extension device
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
D1014159
Methods and apparatus for payment transfer fraud detection
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11900386
This application relates to apparatus and methods for identifying fraudulent payment transfers. In some examples, a computing device determines payment transfer initiation features, and payment transfer reception features, based on previous payment transfer data. The computing device may train a machine learning fraud detection model with the payment transfer initiation features, and may train a machine learning fraud detection model with the payment transfer reception features. Once…
Automatic determination of pickup wait times
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11900313
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 certain acts. The acts can include determining an estimated arrival time of a user at a physical store. The acts also can include generating an estimated wait time using a machine learning model and based on input data comprising the estimated arrival time and dynamic…
System for security scanning code with minimal user interface
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11899792
Examples provide a single-command menu option for initiating security scanning of source code without user interaction with the security scan component performing the security scan. The single-command menu option can include a single-click menu option in a graphical user interface, a command-line utility or a web interface for performing web service calls to the security scanning service(s). A user selects source code for scanning. A zip file is created for the selected source code. The…
Systems and methods for electronic notification queues
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11899655
Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform: storing one or more notifications in a data store; receiving a new notification; determining a respective number of notifications in each respective segment of a plurality of approximately equal segments; using the respective number of notifications in each respective…
Magnetic shelving fence
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11896148
A magnetic shelving fence that provides stabilization of retail products on merchandised shelving during shelving relocation. The includes an elongate multi-surfaced structure and one or more magnets. The elongate structure includes a vertical front plate, a horizontal mount plate, and an edge surround portion. The vertical front plate provides a planar barrier to merchandized product movement. The horizontal mount plate is disposed in a generally perpendicular orientation with respect…
Methods and apparatus for payment transfer fraud detection
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11900386
This application relates to apparatus and methods for identifying fraudulent payment transfers. In some examples, a computing device determines payment transfer initiation features, and payment transfer reception features, based on previous payment transfer data. The computing device may train a machine learning fraud detection model with the payment transfer initiation features, and may train a machine learning fraud detection model with the payment transfer reception features. Once…
Automatic determination of pickup wait times
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11900313
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 certain acts. The acts can include determining an estimated arrival time of a user at a physical store. The acts also can include generating an estimated wait time using a machine learning model and based on input data comprising the estimated arrival time and dynamic…
System for security scanning code with minimal user interface
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11899792
Examples provide a single-command menu option for initiating security scanning of source code without user interaction with the security scan component performing the security scan. The single-command menu option can include a single-click menu option in a graphical user interface, a command-line utility or a web interface for performing web service calls to the security scanning service(s). A user selects source code for scanning. A zip file is created for the selected source code. The…
Systems and methods for electronic notification queues
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11899655
Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform: storing one or more notifications in a data store; receiving a new notification; determining a respective number of notifications in each respective segment of a plurality of approximately equal segments; using the respective number of notifications in each respective…
Magnetic shelving fence
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11896148
A magnetic shelving fence that provides stabilization of retail products on merchandised shelving during shelving relocation. The includes an elongate multi-surfaced structure and one or more magnets. The elongate structure includes a vertical front plate, a horizontal mount plate, and an edge surround portion. The vertical front plate provides a planar barrier to merchandized product movement. The horizontal mount plate is disposed in a generally perpendicular orientation with respect…
Dogleg modular bagging area extension device
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
D1014159
Methods and apparatus for automatically servicing item data requests
Granted: February 6, 2024
Patent Number:
11893072
This application relates to apparatus and methods for automatically servicing item data requests in data management systems, such as in retail management systems. The apparatus and methods employ a throttling technique to service data requests from one or more entities. In some examples, a computing device initializes assigns a counter for each entity, and initializes each counter with an initial value. The computing device also occasionally (e.g., periodically) resets each counter to…
Systems and methods for providing personalized discounted items
Granted: February 6, 2024
Patent Number:
11893618
This application relates to apparatus and methods for automatically determining and providing digital recommendations including discounted items with associated savings. In some examples, a computing device obtains savings data including savings items. In response to obtaining the savings data, the computing device obtains a plurality of clusters. Each cluster of the plurality of clusters includes a set of product types. The computing device obtains user data associated with a user, and…
Automated storage retrieval system connection and communication protocol
Granted: February 6, 2024
Patent Number:
11893530
Systems, method and computer readable medium are provided for automated storage and retrieval. User authentication information is received via a user interface for a dynamic storage and retrieval device. The user identity is verified based upon the authentication information and previously stored authentication data. Order information is retrieved for an order associated with the user following the verifying of user identity, the order information indicating one or more locations for…
Automatic generation of load design
Granted: February 6, 2024
Patent Number:
11893319
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 certain acts. The acts can include obtaining a route for delivering one or more orders in a tri-temp trailer from a distribution center to physical stores in a sequence of stops. The route can have an associated assignment of stack groups comprising stacks of pallets. The acts also can include…
