Point-of-sale system automated testing
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12190303
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to test the operation of a point-of-sale (POS) system by executing a testing routine to send signals associated with keystrokes from a POS keyboard to a POS terminal for processing in the POS system. The simulated keystroke signals have expected corresponding operations in the POS system.
System and method for management of perpetual inventory values based upon customer product purchases
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12190290
A data structure programmatically links the first product to a second product. The second product is historically purchased by the customer whenever the customer has also purchased the first product. A determination is made as to whether the customer purchased the second product together with the first product based upon the sales data. When the customer has failed to purchase the second product with the first product, instructions are transmitted to the retail store over the network to…
System, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for generating recommendations
Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number:
12182845
A system can include a database and a computing device. The computing device is configured to receive an item recommendation request corresponding to an asset from an analyst device and select a set of item identifiers of a plurality of item identifiers. An associated published timeframe of the selected item identifiers is related to a present timeframe. The computing device is further configured to determine a composite similarity value for each item identifier of the set of item…
Determining item mortality based on tracked environmental conditions during transit
Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number:
12182755
Item mortality, such as failure rates and expected remaining lifespan, may be determined based on tracked environmental conditions during transit, such as vibration, temperature, and other conditions. For complex items, multiple different internal components may have varying degrees of susceptibility to damage from unfavorable conditions, with each of the components able to individually cause a failure of the entire item. Thus, the specific set of internal components may drive item…
Systems and methods for automated rule-based detection
Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number:
12182255
Systems and methods for generating, selecting, and implementing rule-based strategies are disclosed. An input data set representing a plurality of interactions that may be classified as malicious or non-malicious is received and at least one strategy tree including a plurality of rule-based strategies is generated. The at least one strategy trees is generated by a machine learning model configured to generate a tree structure. The rule-based strategies are ranked based on a…
Systems and methods for personalizing search engine recall and ranking using machine learning techniques
Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number:
12182215
A system can include 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 operations comprising: receiving, at a search engine, a user search query submitted by a user; generating, using a recall personalization model, a simulated query that supplements the user search query with a feature vector reflecting personalization preferences of…
Systems and methods for compressing data for distributed ledgers
Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number:
12182128
System and methods for compressing data for use in a distributed ledger are provided. In one form, the system includes: a network interface; a user interface device; and a control circuit coupled to the network interface and the user interface device. In this form, the control circuit executes a data compression module configured to: receive, via the network interface, a data set; transform and store the data set into a file format of rows and columns in which data of the data set are…
Autonomous storage and retrieval tower
Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number:
12180004
An autonomous storage and retrieval tower for receiving, storing, and dispensing free physical products.
Systems and methods for assessing quality of retail products
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12175476
Systems and methods for assessing quality of and detecting defects in retail products include a housing having an interior, a product holding surface, an image capture device configured to capture an image of the product, a lighting element configured to provide lighting within the housing, an electronic database configured to store electronic data including reference image data associated with the product and representing the product in various sizes and various quality states, and a…
Methods and apparatus for anomaly detections
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12175505
This application relates to apparatus and methods for identifying anomalies within data, such as pricing data. In some examples, a computing device receives data updates and selects a machine learning model to apply to the data update. The computing device may train the machine learning model with features generated based on historical purchase order data. An anomaly score is generated based on application of the machine learning model. Based on the anomaly score, the data update is…
Methods and apparatus for electronic detection of fraudulent transactions using machine learning processes
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12175469
This application relates to apparatus and methods for identifying fraudulent transactions. The embodiments may employ machine learning processes to detect fraudulent activity. In some examples, a computing device determines customer data and device data for a customer and device involved in a transaction. The customer data may include previous transactions by the customer, and the device data may include previous transactions involving the device. The computing device generates features…
Digital wallet management system
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12175452
An example system for digital wallet management including one or more databases and a computing system is described. The databases are configured to store data corresponding to purchase history of a user, the purchase history including payment account information for a first transaction captured through a reader at a point-of-sale system at the time of the first transaction and an identifier associated with the first transaction. The computing system receives a machine-readable element…
On-hand inventory accuracy system
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12175422
Examples provides on-hand inventory accuracy using radio frequency identification (RFID) tag data and expected populations of items for a plurality of sub-locations within a scan area. The system calculates a dynamic expected population of items value for each sub-location using item level data and modular display data for an item assortment assigned to a modular display within each sub-location. If the items detected by the RFID tag data match the expected population of items with a…
Shipment receiving systems and methods including notification and reconciliation features
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12175420
Shipment receiving systems and methods are disclosed. Invoice and store inventory management data is provided to an invoice processor for assigning expected destinations to lanes of a material transporter having and a plurality of outlet lanes that each have an indicator. A scanner determines a case identifier for each case which is routed accordingly. One or more notifications is provided to the indicator of one or more of the plurality of outlet lanes. Received shipment data enables…
System and method for dispatching drivers for delivering grocery orders and facilitating digital tipping
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12175414
A system can comprise one or more processors; and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions configured to run on the one more processors and perform a method for dispatching a delivery driver and allowing the user to electronically tip the delivery driver. The method in this embodiment can comprise: receiving a delivery request from a user; and determining whether the order is eligible for delivery. When the order is eligible for delivery, the…
Automated proxy picker system for non-fungible goods
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12175405
A system and method for providing proxy picking of non-fungible goods within an automated storage and retrieval system is provided, which repurposes one or more automated mobile robots operating within the automated inventory management system to perform a plurality of tasks across multiple different areas of an automated store. The proxy picking system and method are configured to pick individually identified non-fungible goods according to a customer selection on an ordering screen…
Systems and methods for high throughput cutting of sealing elements on packages
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12172335
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…
Systems and methods for cold-start recommendation using largescale graph models
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12169511
Systems and methods of generating interfaces including recommended items selected by a graph-based cold-start (GCS) model are disclosed. A request for an interface is received and a set of interface items is generated for inclusion in the interface. The set of interface items is selected, at least in part, by a GCS model including a semantic similarity component and a viewed-also-viewed component. The set of interface items is generated based on a combination of an output of the semantic…
Display screen with graphical user interface
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
D1054430
Systems and methods of product recognition through multi-model image processing
Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12165101
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…
