Automated exception event handler for resolving shipping exceptions
Granted: June 20, 2023
Patent Number:
11681976
A system includes one or more processing modules and one or more non-transitory storage modules storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processing modules and perform acts of: configuring an exception event handler for a delivery system with a ruleset that enables proactive identification and resolution of delivery exceptions; monitoring a queue of incoming messages that are received from carriers indicating status information for shipments being handled by…
Shopping facility assistance systems, devices and methods
Granted: June 20, 2023
Patent Number:
11679969
Apparatuses, components and methods are provided herein useful to provide assistance to customers and/or workers in a shopping facility. In some embodiments, a shopping facility personal assistance system comprises: a plurality of motorized transport units located in and configured to move through a shopping facility space; a plurality of user interface units, each corresponding to a respective motorized transport unit during use of the respective motorized transport unit; and a central…
Identifying value conscious users
Granted: June 13, 2023
Patent Number:
11676168
A method can include retrieving product information from a website database to identify a first product as a value-sensitive product identified with at least a value price tag. The method can include determining second users who are not value conscious about the first product. The method can also include preparing first and second recommendations and promotions for the first product, wherein the first recommendation comprises one or more value-sensitive products. The method additionally…
Body mounted camera system for monitoring deliveries
Granted: June 13, 2023
Patent Number:
11676464
A delivery monitoring system comprises a portable camera positioned on a delivery person; a camera activation application executed by a mobile electronic device to control a video-generating operation of the portable camera; and a special-purpose processor that outputs a data instruction to an electronic locking device to unlock an entrance to a location for delivering an item by the delivery person only when the portable camera is recording video.
Systems and methods for distributed risk analysis
Granted: June 13, 2023
Patent Number:
11676088
Systems and methods for distributed risk analysis are discussed.
System and method for dynamic perishable item replenishment
Granted: June 13, 2023
Patent Number:
11676084
System and methods for dynamic replenishment in a facility are disclosed. A mobile inventory processing device reads a machine readable tag affixed to a perishable item and transmits an indication of the perishable item to a stock inventory processing device. The stock inventory processing device retrieves a stock inventory value corresponding to the perishable item and a historic daily sales value for the perishable item from a database. The stock inventory processing device determines…
Body temperature screening control unit
Granted: June 13, 2023
Patent Number:
D989278
Battery pack
Granted: June 13, 2023
Patent Number:
D988984
Method and apparatus for managing a task and project messaging system
Granted: June 6, 2023
Patent Number:
11669788
Systems and methods for providing a project manager with a configurable platform from which to oversee the status of a project are discussed. A project management application provides a project manager with a granular oversight of individual tasks and a view of task dependencies in a sequence of tasks during a project's execution. A dashboard graphical user interface (GUI) provides graphical depictions of dynamically updated individual task status, group task status and overall project…
Automated planogram anomaly detection
Granted: June 6, 2023
Patent Number:
11669843
An automated planogram anomaly detection solution rapidly and reliably identifies mismatches between planograms and actual item placement. Examples receive a real time (RT) image of a shelf unit corresponding to at least a first portion of a planogram; detect, within the RT image, item boundaries for a plurality of items on the shelf unit and tag boundaries for a plurality of tags associated with the shelf unit; extract text from at least one tag; extract attributes from at least one…
Personalized mechanisms to resolve explore-exploit dilemma with dynamically shared learnings
Granted: June 6, 2023
Patent Number:
11669851
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: displaying content elements on one or more websites to users; performing a classification of the users into segments; receiving a request from a first user of the users to display a webpage of the one or more websites; determining an amount of information in a respective posterior distribution of each…
Automatic resolution of the explore-exploit decision in omnichannel settings
Granted: June 6, 2023
Patent Number:
11669857
A method including tracking impression response data in response to online impressions of content elements displayed to users of a website. The impression response data can include (i) first responses by the users in one or more physical stores in response to the online impressions, and (ii) second responses by the users in the website in response to the online impressions. The method also can include receiving a request from a user of the users to display a webpage of the website. The…
Query intent mapping
Granted: June 6, 2023
Patent Number:
11669881
An approach is disclosed for mapping an intent of a query. The approach receives query data for one or more queries. The approach determines product type data of the one or more queries. The approach determines attribute data for the determined product type data. The attribute data includes sequence attribute data and sequence value data. The approach retrieves catalog data for one or more items that include product type data that matches the determined product type data. The catalog…
Systems and methods for determining an order collection start time
Granted: June 6, 2023
Patent Number:
11669886
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, at the one or more processors, an order from a customer electronic device; determining, using employee device data collected from one or more electronic devices of one or more employees of a store in a predictive analysis, an estimated collection time required for an employee of the one or…
Methods and apparatuses for determining personalized recommendations using customer segmentation
Granted: May 30, 2023
Patent Number:
11663645
A category recommender system includes a computing device configured to obtain customer information characterizing a customer's interactions on an ecommerce marketplace. The computing device is further configured to determine discovery category rankings for each category of items available on the ecommerce marketplace for the customer based on the customer information, determine repeat category rankings for each category of items available on the ecommerce marketplace for the customer…
System and method for augmented reality loading
Granted: May 23, 2023
Patent Number:
11657366
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for using augmented reality to improve loading, and in particular improve loading when the types and order of items to be loaded is unknown. A server uses information regarding the packages which have already been stored in a storage area to generate a three-dimensional map of where the stored packages currently are placed. Upon receiving information indicating a subsequent package is going to be stored, the server can identify the…
Systems and methods for optimization of pick walks
Granted: May 23, 2023
Patent Number:
11657347
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: executing a greedy incremental batcher loop, which can comprise: selecting a first picklist of one or more picklists; and merging the first picklist with one or more picklists in a first remainder of the one or more picklists when the merging would decrease a cost of the first picklist, wherein the…
Display screen with graphical user interface
Granted: May 16, 2023
Patent Number:
D986256
System and method for electronic text classification
Granted: May 16, 2023
Patent Number:
11651016
Systems, method, and computer-readable mediums for automated text classification, and particularly a mechanism for performing binary classification using only a set of positive labeled data as training data and having a large set of unlabeled data, where the algorithm can function without any information regarding the negative class. The disclosed classification systems and methods may use a text classification process which automatically classifies text based on the current positive…
Data mover
Granted: May 16, 2023
Patent Number:
11650841
Systems and methods for data replication. A data processing service can present a user interface configured to receive a data fusion algorithm from a user, and a request to execute a job, each job including instructions to copy data from one of a plurality of source databases to one of a plurality of target databases, and can present a plurality of virtual machines, each virtual machine comprising: a processing unit configured to attempt to start the job requested by the user, when the…
