Automated container cutting system and method
Granted: November 7, 2023
Patent Number:
11806825
An automated container cutting system for cutting a container includes a cutting platform and a cutting tool held by the cutting platform. The cutting tool is configured to cut the container. The automated container cutting system includes a force feedback sensor operatively connected to the cutting tool such that the force feedback sensor is configured to measure resistive force exerted on the cutting tool. The automated container cutting system includes at least one processor…
Methods and apparatuses for discriminative pre-training for low resource title compression
Granted: October 31, 2023
Patent Number:
11804214
A system for generating compressed product titles that can be used in conversational transactions includes a computing device configured to obtain product title data characterizing descriptive product titles of products available on an ecommerce marketplace and to determine compressed product titles based on the product title data using a machine learning model that is pre-trained using a replaced-token detection task. The computing device also stores the compressed product titles for…
Systems and methods of product identification within an image
Granted: October 31, 2023
Patent Number:
11803892
Some embodiments provide systems to identify products comprising: product vector database; a plurality of portable computing devices comprising a camera and a control circuit configured to: access an image captured by the camera; perform an optical character recognition on the image; apply a vector modeling rule to key text, generate a first query product vector and wirelessly communicate the first query product vector to the product recommendation system; the product recommendation…
Systems and methods for determining price bands and user price affinity predictions using machine learning architectures and techniques
Granted: October 31, 2023
Patent Number:
11803889
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: providing a machine learning architecture that is configured to evaluate expensiveness of items relative to each other, wherein the items are included in an item type category; receiving prices associated with the items included in the item type category; generating, using a price band…
Personalized ranking using deep attribute extraction and attentive user interest embeddings
Granted: October 24, 2023
Patent Number:
11797624
In some examples, a system may be configured to generate one or more query attributes for a search query received from a computing device of a user. Additionally, the system may be configured to, based at least in part on historical data of the user including data characterizing one or more items associated with the user, generate relevant item data. In various examples, the relevant item data characterizing a set of relevant items. Moreover, the system may be configured to, based on the…
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…
System and method for adjusting the opening of containers to avoid damage to contents
Granted: October 24, 2023
Patent Number:
11794370
First scanned images of the first container are received from a scanning device that show the contents of the interior of the first container before the first container is cut and opened. Second scanned images that are of the contents of the first container after the first container is cut and opened are also received. The images are analyzed and, based upon the analysis, selective modifications to the operating parameters of the container opening machine are determined and made.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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 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…
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…
