System and method for determining shopping facilities available for order pick up
Granted: January 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11861682
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to facilitating the vehicle pick up of orders at shopping facilities. In some embodiments, there is provided a system including: an electronic interface for receiving an order corresponding to a customer and for receiving a time period during which the customer requests to pick up the order; a control circuit configured to: determine the location of the customer; determine a plurality of shopping facilities near the…
Systems for learning and using one or more sub-population features associated with individuals of one or more sub-populations of a gross population and related methods therefor
Granted: January 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11860880
A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory media storing computer instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform: identifying a first sub-population of case individuals from a gross population of the case individuals; presenting first test content to a first test sub-population of the case individuals, the first test content is selected according to a first statistical model; measuring a first test sub-population average feedback…
Methods and apparatus for retrieving information via an intermediate representation
Granted: December 26, 2023
Patent Number:
11853297
The disclosed subject matter relates to a system and method for providing an automated assistant that retrieves information from a knowledge base in response to a user's natural language question. A user's natural language question voice is transformed into an intermediate representation. From the intermediate representation, a cypher query is generated which may be used to query the database. The query results are provided in response to the user. The transformation into the…
System and method for adding items to an electronic order
Granted: December 26, 2023
Patent Number:
11854064
A system includes 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 to perform: receiving, from a customer device, an online order for a customer, wherein the online order comprises a customer identification for the customer; receiving, from the customer device, a selection of a pick-up time for retrieval at a store; receiving an additional order for the customer; linking the…
Order fulfillment system having dynamic routing
Granted: December 26, 2023
Patent Number:
11854062
Examples provide order fulfillment that includes receiving an online order from a user. An initial distribution hub for delivery of the order is identified and the order routed from the initial distribution hub to an intermediate hub. A notification of receipt of the order at the intermediate hub is received and a user location is determined. A plurality of options for routing the order to a next hub based on the user location and a cost associated with routing the order to the next hub…
Methods and apparatus for anomaly detections
Granted: December 26, 2023
Patent Number:
11854055
This application relates to apparatus and methods for identifying anomalies within a time series. In some examples, a computing device receives sales data identifying a sale of at least one item, and aggregates the received data in a database. The computing device may generate a plurality of time series based on the aggregated sales data. The computing device may extract features from the plurality of time series, and generate an alerting algorithm that is based on clusters of the…
Systems and methods for presenting augmented reality promotion indicators
Granted: December 26, 2023
Patent Number:
11854046
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to presenting promotion indicators. In some embodiments, a system for presenting promotion indicators comprises a database configured to store user data, a control circuit configured to receive a user identifier, determine an identity of the user, receive a location indicator, determine a location of the mobile device, select a promotion, transmit a promotion indicator associated with the promotion and an application…
Method for self-checkout with a mobile device
Granted: December 26, 2023
Patent Number:
11853988
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.
Automated food selection using hyperspectral sensing
Granted: December 26, 2023
Patent Number:
11853965
A solution for automated food selection includes: an order processing component operable to receive an order identifying an item; a selection component comprising: a first hyperspectral sensor operable to sense a reflection from the item and produce a sensor output based at least on the reflection; and a picking mechanism; a control component operable to: based at least on identification of the item, select a hyperspectral profile from a set of hyperspectral profiles; compare the sensor…
System for crowdsourced cold-chain compliant item selection
Granted: December 26, 2023
Patent Number:
11853963
Examples provide a system for cold-chain compliant item selection. A set of perishable items are selected for retrieval by a user based on item data, cold-chain compliance score(s), and/or cold-chain compliance restrictions associated with each user. The selected set of items are assigned to the user for retrieval in accordance with a set of cold-chain compliance parameters, including a per-item maximum dwell-time specifying a maximum time interval between removal of a perishable item…
Systems and methods for baling materials
Granted: December 26, 2023
Patent Number:
11849676
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to baling materials. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for baling recyclable materials including a baling a machine configured to compress materials into a shape suitable for at least one of storage and transportation; the materials comprising mixed type recyclable materials, the material not comprising added cardboard header materials configured to structurally enhanced the shape having been…
Food product tray
Granted: December 26, 2023
Patent Number:
D1008802
High wall tray extension
Granted: December 26, 2023
Patent Number:
D1008707
Automated decant system
Granted: December 19, 2023
Patent Number:
11845610
An automated decant system is disclosed for processing pallets of cased goods received at a facility, extracting packaging for the cases and transferring eaches within the cases to totes, possibly organized by SKU in sub-totes within the tote.
Systems and methods for determining substitutions
Granted: December 19, 2023
Patent Number:
11847685
A system comprising 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: determining a list of possible substitutes for an item when the item is out of stock; training a machine learning algorithm, using labeled training data as input and a list of possible substitutes for the item as output; determining, using the machine learning…
Systems and methods for keyword categorization
Granted: December 19, 2023
Patent Number:
11847669
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 determining a respective interaction metric between at least two respective keywords of a plurality of keywords; constructing, using each respective interaction metric, as determined, a graph comprising a plurality of nodes connected by at least one edge; identifying one or more clusters of nodes…
Systems and methods for layout customization
Granted: December 19, 2023
Patent Number:
11847402
Systems and methods for customizing an interface are disclosed. Interaction data is received for at least one interaction with a network environment and an intent of the at least one interaction is identified based on the interaction data. A layout is selected for a user interface based on the identified intent. The layout includes at least one zone. The at least one zone of the layout is populated with one or more modules and the each of the one or more modules is populated with content…
Systems and methods of storing and retrieving retail store product inventory
Granted: December 12, 2023
Patent Number:
11842320
Apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful in retail store inventory storage and retrieval. Some embodiments provide systems, comprising: a rack system positioned above a dropdown ceiling and extending over the sales floor, and comprising: a plurality of racks, a rail system and the plurality of access passages; a plurality of unmanned vehicles; a plurality of access stations, wherein the access stations physically cooperate with one of the access passages; each rack comprises…
Systems and methods for managing concurrent data requests
Granted: December 12, 2023
Patent Number:
11841843
In some embodiments, systems, methods, and apparatuses are provided herein useful for managing a plurality of concurrent and nearly concurrent data requests within a computer system. The systems have a main data storage for storing source data, and a high speed, and/or remote data storage for storing computed data. In some embodiments, a combination of data filters and distributed mutex processes are used to eliminate or limit duplicate reads and writes into the high speed data storage…
Overriding control of motorized transport unit systems, devices and methods
Granted: December 12, 2023
Patent Number:
11840814
Some embodiments include apparatuses providing control over movement of motorized transport units at a retail facility, comprising: multiple self-propelled motorized transport units; a wireless communication network; and a central computer system, wherein the central computer system comprises: a transceiver; a control circuit; and a memory storing computer instructions that when executed cause the control circuit to: receive an override command, from a worker associated with the retail…
