System and method for perpetual inventory management
Granted: October 24, 2023
Patent Number:
11797929
A perpetual inventory (PI) value associated with the selected product and a last PI adjustment time that indicates when the retail store last adjusted the PI value are received. The PI value of the selected product is compared to the back room quantity value of the selected product, and a time when the back room quantity value becomes greater than the PI value for the selected product is determined. An adjustment to the PI of the selected product is blocked when the PI adjustment time is…
System and method for conducting a multi-channel order
Granted: October 24, 2023
Patent Number:
11797925
A method for purchasing a product at a brick-and-mortar retail establishment is provided. The method includes, but is not limited to, inputting identification information into a local device for a product sold by the brick-and-mortar retail establishment, transmitting the identification information to an order creation application, and upon receiving the identification information, selecting a dispense type for the product. The dispense type is selected from a group of dispense types…
Methods and apparatus for automatic route assignment
Granted: October 17, 2023
Patent Number:
11790305
This application relates to apparatus and methods for automatic delivery route generation and assignment. In some examples, a computing device determines delivery locations for each of a plurality of previous routes taken by each of a plurality of drivers over a period of time. The computing device also obtains a plurality of current routes to be assigned to the plurality of drivers. Further, the computing device determines a familiarity value for each of the plurality of drivers for…
Systems and methods for managing self check out services
Granted: October 17, 2023
Patent Number:
11790341
Some systems and methods are directed to a device agnostic architecture configured to control and/or manage the interactions between front end store systems (e.g., self checkout (SCO) systems) for capturing purchase items and backend systems (e.g., point of sale (POS) subsystems) for completing purchases. The device agnostic architecture can include a translation layer or translation component that mediates communications from and/or between the front end and backend systems. For…
Dynamic evaluation and use of global and contextual personas
Granted: October 17, 2023
Patent Number:
11790399
A system and method for content selection and presentation is disclosed. A plurality of content elements configured for presentation in at least one content container is received and one of the plurality of content elements is selected for presentation in the at least one content container. The one of the plurality of content elements is selected by a trained selection model configured to select one of an individual context or a global context. An interface including the selected one of…
Systems and methods for improved online predictions
Granted: October 17, 2023
Patent Number:
11790406
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 cause the one or more processors to perform (1) receiving a request to generate one or more campaigns; (2) determining one or more predicted bids for one or more keywords in the one or more campaigns; (3) adjusting the one or more predicted bids for the one or more campaigns; (4) pacing the one or more…
Yard management system
Granted: October 10, 2023
Patent Number:
11783285
Yard management systems and methods are described. A yard management system comprises a database holding load information, a mobile application associated with a user account and executable on a mobile device. The mobile application when executed acquires the identifications of the load, queries the database for the load information, and generates a machine-readable representation corresponding to the identifications of the load, an autonomous yard vehicle configured to mechanically…
Integrated gateway platform for fulfillment services
Granted: October 10, 2023
Patent Number:
11784938
An integrated gateway system configured to perform: receiving online data transmissions from a user computing device of a user; authenticating that a source of the online data transmissions matches the user computing device; transmitting the online data transmissions to the internal gateway system; authenticating credentials of the user as a pre-authorized user; restricting a number of incoming calls using a rate-limiting throttle system; transmitting the online data transmissions to the…
Systems, non-transitory computer readable mediums, and methods for grocery order batching and customer experience
Granted: October 10, 2023
Patent Number:
11783403
This application relates to apparatus and methods for batching orders for delivery. In some examples, a computing device may obtain order data identifying at least a first order and a second order. The computing device may determine whether the first order can be delivered to a first delivery address and the second order can be delivered to a second delivery address within a delivery time window. Based on the determination, the computing device may batch the first order and the second…
System and method for detecting signature forgeries
Granted: October 10, 2023
Patent Number:
11783327
Two models are first trained and then test images are applied to the two trained models in an effort to detect signature forgeries. The first model is trained with pairs of signature images and the resultant trained model is capable of detecting blind forgeries. The second model is trained with triplets of signature images and is capable of detecting skilled signature forgeries. After the two models are trained, test images are applied to the models and determinations are made as to…
Systems and methods for processing trailer repair requests submitted by carriers
Granted: October 10, 2023
Patent Number:
11783303
In some embodiments, methods and systems are provided for facilitating submission of repair requests by carriers having to repair trailers to domicile facilities associated with the trailers. A central computing device provides a first graphical interface accessible by a computing device of a carrier having to repair a trailer in order to permit the carrier to submit a repair request indicating repair needed for the trailer. The central computing device then generates an invoice for the…
Methods and apparatus for scheduling timeslots using machine learning processes
Granted: October 10, 2023
Patent Number:
11783298
This application relates to automatically scheduling timeslots, such as timeslots for scheduling item pickups and deliveries. The embodiments may employ machine learning process to determine, for each of a plurality of timeslots, a timeslot capacity. The embodiments may further determine a time as to when each of the plurality of timeslots become available for selection, such as on a webpage. In some examples, the time determined to make available for selection each of the plurality of…
Systems and methods for rush order fulfillment optimization
Granted: October 10, 2023
Patent Number:
11783288
A system for rush order fulfilment optimization is discussed. The system includes mobile devices that are each associated with a worker and a rush fulfillment engine executed by a computing system which dynamically updates a task queue of each worker upon receipt of a new rush order according to a task completion rate difference between an estimated task completion rate and the current task completion rate of the worker.
Automatic determination of a shipping speed to display for an item
Granted: October 10, 2023
Patent Number:
11783279
A method including determining a zip code of a user using a website that displays items for sale. Determining the zip code of the user can include determining the zip code of the user through at least one of using tracking cookies for the user using the website or geo-sniffing a current session of the user using the website. The method also can include receiving a selection by the user to display information about an item of the items for sale. The method additionally can include…
Systems and methods for packing visualizations
Granted: October 10, 2023
Patent Number:
11783268
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to presenting packing instructions to a user. In some embodiments, a system for presenting packing instructions to a user comprises a database configured to store packing information and item visualizations, wherein the packing information includes placements of items in orders in containers, and wherein the item visualizations depict appearances of items sold by the retailer, a control circuit configured to receive…
High throughput order fullfillment database system
Granted: October 10, 2023
Patent Number:
11782900
The system and method described herein provide an order fulfillment database system. The order fulfillment database system may provide a high throughput speed, high availability, redundancy, and scalability. The order fulfillment database system supports very fast transaction times for atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability (ACID) transactions. Order services instances at a primary cluster provide in-memory databases that service segments of the persistent database and are…
Automated vertical farming system using mobile robots
Granted: October 10, 2023
Patent Number:
11778956
A vertical farming system includes a storage structure having racks of storage shelves for housing plant-carrying containers. Mobile robots travel around the racks to transfer containers of plants to and from the storage shelves. Under direction of a central control system, one or more mobile robots may transport a container from a storage location to a workstation. Once there, care may be provided for the plant, including water and/or other nutrients, and data may be gathered on the…
Flexible store fulfillment
Granted: October 3, 2023
Patent Number:
11775900
Aspects described herein relate to a flexible order fulfillment management system that utilizes predefined fulfillment workflows including common business processes. By utilizing predefined workflows including common business processes, the order fulfillment management system is able to drive store-based fulfillment programs efficiently as multiple fulfillment workflows may utilize the same common business processes and a single fulfillment management system may operate workflows in…
Systems and methods for determining user personas for a user
Granted: October 3, 2023
Patent Number:
11776016
This application relates to apparatus and methods for automatically determining and providing personalized user personas of a customer for specific platforms (e.g., applications). In some examples, a computing device receives a persona request identifying a user and a platform. In response, the computing device obtains user data associated with the user and a plurality of potential user personas from a database. For each of the plurality of potential user personas, the computing device…
Systems and methods for projecting action indicators
Granted: October 3, 2023
Patent Number:
11776366
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to projecting action indicators on items in a retail facility. In some embodiments, a system comprises an image capture device configured to capture an image of a shelving unit, a control circuit configured to identify items located in the shelving unit, determine an action item for an item located in the shelving unit, identify boundaries of the item, and generate an action image including an action indicator based…
