Systems and methods for measuring effectiveness of feature changes made within a store
Granted: December 13, 2022
Patent Number:
11526824
Systems and methods for determining whether a particular feature or change implemented in at least one test store causes a significant change as compared to one or more control stores are discussed. More particularly, techniques for using a time-series clustering algorithm to identify comparable sister stores to a store in which a feature change is being considered are described. Once the sister stores are identified a testing module can perform an A/B testing so as to validate whether a…
Automatically generating personalized flavor preferences
Granted: December 6, 2022
Patent Number:
11521256
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 creating a standardized flavor list from flavors associated with items in a catalog; determining a respective score indicating a degree of affinity for a user for each flavor of each of one or more item types associated with the items; creating a respective ordered list of flavors for each of the one or…
Automatic determination of pickup wait times
Granted: December 6, 2022
Patent Number:
11521161
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 more processors and perform training a machine learning model based on historical input data for pickups by users that occurred during a historical time period and output data comprising actual wait times that occurred for the pickups by the users; receiving an order from a user for a pickup from a physical store during a selected…
Personalized review snippet generation and display
Granted: December 6, 2022
Patent Number:
11520795
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 a plurality of snippets of a plurality of user reviews for a product, each respective snippet of the plurality of snippets relating to at least one respective user attribute category of a plurality of user attribute categories; creating a score for each respective snippet of the plurality…
System for collection of products
Granted: December 6, 2022
Patent Number:
11518616
According to a first aspect of the invention, there is provided a system for collection of products, the system comprising: at least one carrier (8) for carrying products (40); a collection point (14), at which collection point a user (10) of the system can remove products from the carrier; and a transporter arrangement (16, 20) for transporting the carrier to the collection point; wherein the system is arranged to physically inhibit (42) removal of the carrier by the user from the…
Automatic generation of dynamic time-slot capacity
Granted: November 29, 2022
Patent Number:
11514404
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 more processors and perform: obtaining historical demand data for pickup time slots at a physical store for a first time period; training a machine learning model to create a trained model based on the historical demand data for the pickup time slots over the first time period; generating, using the trained model, a projected demand…
Systems and methods for transporting containers with a vehicle
Granted: November 22, 2022
Patent Number:
11505406
Among other things, a vehicle for transporting containers is disclosed. The vehicle can include a base, a rack, and at least one container. The base can include a platform, wheels, and a motor for driving one or more of the wheels. The rack can be mounted to the platform. The rack can include at least one rail. The at least one rail can include a channel defined therein and an end coupling for linking the at least one rail with an external rail. The at least one container can be…
Systems to fulfill a picked sales order and related methods therefor
Granted: November 22, 2022
Patent Number:
11508000
A number of embodiments can include a system. The system can include one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage devices storing computing instructions. The computing instructions can be configured to run on the one or more processors and perform: receiving a request for a picked order that can comprise: a conveyance type; and one or more goods; estimating a fulfillment time interval to make ready the one or more goods of the picked order by:…
Systems and methods for scaling framed images
Granted: November 22, 2022
Patent Number:
11507991
This application relates to systems and methods for scaling and assembling framed images, and to offering the framed images for purchase. In some embodiments, a computing device is configured to receive a first customer selection of a frame style and a frame size, where the frame size indicates dimensions of a frame window. The computing device is also configured to receive a second customer selection of a mat style. Further, the computing device is configured to determine, based at…
Automated lists
Granted: November 22, 2022
Patent Number:
11507981
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: receiving transaction data comprising items previously purchased; comparing the first item to the second item; identifying the first item to be related to the second item; aggregating the first product type and the second product type into a first category bundle having a first theme defined by the…
Systems and methods for managing meat cut quality
Granted: November 15, 2022
Patent Number:
11497221
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to ensuring quality of meat cuts. In some embodiments, a system for ensuring quality of meat cuts comprises a capture device comprising an image capture device configured to capture an image of a cut of meat, a depth sensor configured to capture depth data, a transceiver configured to transmit the image and the depth data, a microcontroller configured to control the image capture device, the depth sensor, and the…
Systems and methods for processing emergency alert notifications
Granted: November 15, 2022
Patent Number:
11501630
In some embodiments, methods and systems are provided for managing emergency notifications and incident reports at a commercial facility. A graphical interface enables a worker associated with a facility to input information regarding an ongoing/impending emergency event, e.g., Active Threat, Acts of Violence, Fire/Explosion, Injury, Power Failure, Missing Child, Severe Weather, Robbery, Hazmat, Bomb Threat, Covid-19, Store Closure, Special Events etc. This information is processed via…
Methods and apparatuses for selecting advertisements using semantic matching
Granted: November 15, 2022
Patent Number:
11501334
A system for selecting one or more advertisement items to be presented to a user may include a computing device configured to obtain anchor item data including anchor item title data and anchor item metadata identifying characteristics of an anchor item. The computing device can also obtain advertisement item data including advertisement item title data and advertisement item metadata identifying characteristics of a plurality of advertisement items. The computing device can also…
System and method for determination and management of root cause for inventory problems
Granted: November 15, 2022
Patent Number:
11501251
Scans of a selected product on shelves of a retail store are obtained and the scans are transmitted over a network via a transceiver circuit. A perpetual inventory (PI) value is stored for a selected product in a database. A data structure includes a first category and first actions programmatically linked to the first category. When the selected product is out-of-stock and when the PI value is greater than a predetermined threshold, one or more of the first actions associated with the…
Validation of routes in automatic route design
Granted: November 15, 2022
Patent Number:
11501248
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 certain acts. The acts can include obtaining a sequence of stops and service time windows for the stops. The acts also can include generating a sequence of driver states that satisfies the sequence of the stops. The acts further can include determining, for each pair of respective sequential driver…
System and method for real-time modeling inference pipeline
Granted: November 15, 2022
Patent Number:
11501185
Systems and methods of real-time modeling pipeline inferencing are disclosed. At least one model configured to calculate at least one metric from one or more features is deployed. A model inferencing pipeline configured to extract the one or more features from a customer-specific data pipeline is implemented for the at least one mode. The model inferencing pipeline is generated using a training data set extracted from a cross-customer data pipeline. The at least one metric is calculated…
System and method for structure and attribute based graph partitioning
Granted: November 15, 2022
Patent Number:
11500936
Systems and methods for performing structure and attribute based graph partitioning. An exemplary system can receive a plurality of transactions, with each transaction identifying a point of sale and an item exchanged by the transaction. The system can generate a structure graph of the plurality of transactions and receive a request to partition the structure graph into sub-categories. The system can then retrieve, from a database, attributes of each respective structure vertex in the…
Systems and methods for altering a GUI in response to in-session inferences
Granted: November 15, 2022
Patent Number:
11500656
Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer readable storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processing modules and perform: gathering first data comprising first interactions of a user with a first graphical user interface; storing the first data comprising the first interactions of the user with the first graphical user interface as at least one first vector by adding to the at least one first…
Systems and methods for connecting containers
Granted: November 15, 2022
Patent Number:
11498759
A rail can include first and transverse channels defined therein. A container can include a rod, a spring, a first plate assembly, and a second plate assembly. The first plate assembly can include a first transverse bearing disposed in the first transverse channel. The second plate assembly can include a second transverse bearing disposed in the second transverse channel. A robotic assembly can include a robotic arm. The robotic arm can include opposing grips defining a grip space…
Systems and methods for filling containers
Granted: November 15, 2022
Patent Number:
11498758
A rail can include an entry portion, an exit portion, and a middle portion disposed between the entry and exit portions. The middle portion can be lower than the entry and exit portions. The rail can be configured to couple with a container such that the container is movable, along the rail, from the entry portion to the exit portion. A first storage rack can be disposed on a first side of the rail middle portion and a second storage rack can be disposed on an opposing side of the rail…