Walmart Patent Grants

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

Flexible automated sorting and transport arrangement (FAST) asset monitor

Granted: March 12, 2024
Patent Number: 11928608
A disclosed system for transport asset monitoring, for example monitoring truck trailer unloading progress at large retail locations, includes an artificial intelligence (AI) solution for managing operations at a facility. The AI solution analyzes current load percentage and other data to predict availability for moving the transport asset and ability to accept a new incoming transport asset. Predictions of availability can reduce response times, resulting in higher utilization rates for…

Methods and apparatus for determining wait times

Granted: March 12, 2024
Patent Number: 11928897
In some examples, a system may include a first computing device communicatively coupled to a second computing device. Additionally, the first computing device is configured to obtain, from the second computing device, check-in data indicating an arrival of the user of the second computing device at a first location, and in response to obtaining the check-in data, determine current wait times. Moreover, the first computing device is configured to determine a first number of customers…

Systems and methods for facilitating online search based on offline transactions

Granted: March 12, 2024
Patent Number: 11928723
This application relates to systems and methods for facilitating online search based on offline transaction data. In some examples, a disclosed system includes a computing device that is configured to: obtain an online search request that is submitted by a user to an online retailer; generate an online search result comprising a plurality of items that match the query and are available at a first physical retail store associated with the online retailer; generate online search data based…

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…