Peak period network capacity planning
Granted: October 25, 2022
Patent Number:
11481858
A solution for capacity planning includes: for each of a plurality of fulfillment centers (FCs), receiving an inventory allocation; receiving a demand forecast and delivery time information for customer orders; performing a simulation comprising: partitioning a simulation period into multiple simulation stages; for each simulation stage: assigning portions of the demand forecast to a demand pool for one of the FCs; for each FC, determining a backlog, based at least on the demand pool for…
Systems and methods for mapping in-store transactions to customer profiles
Granted: October 25, 2022
Patent Number:
11481753
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 a query from a front-end device for one or more users mapped to a same payment option; generating, using a machine learning model, a first dataset comprising one or more classifications of one or more online users mapped to the same payment option as either (i) a single user with multiple…
Systems and methods for combinatorial resource optimization
Granted: October 18, 2022
Patent Number:
11475395
Systems and methods for optimizing delivery vehicle resources (e.g. a plurality of vehicles) are described herein. Available time slots for the plurality of vehicles are determined and presented to a user. In response to receiving a delivery order indicating a selected time slot, the delivery order is assigned to a vehicle from the plurality of vehicles based on a time slot indicated in the delivery order and a set of delivery parameters. A delivery route is calculated for each vehicle…
Method and apparatus for delivery order dispatch and assignment
Granted: October 18, 2022
Patent Number:
11475393
This application relates to apparatus and methods for determining, assigning, and displaying order deliveries. In some examples, a computing device may obtain order data identifying at least one order for delivery during a timeslot. The computing device may transmit, to a driver's computing device, a request for deliveries for a first price during the timeslot. The computing device may receive, from the driver's computing device, a response accepting the request. The computing device may…
Distribution of applications among machines in a cloud
Granted: October 18, 2022
Patent Number:
11474849
A system includes at least one processor configured to host virtual machines in a cloud. Each virtual machine executes a plurality of instances of a first application. Each virtual machine also executes a distributor. The distributor is configured for accessing a profile of the application and a distribution of the first application, wherein the distribution identifies a respective first number of instances of the first application to execute in each respective virtual machine. After…
Modular mounting apparatus for electronic device
Granted: October 18, 2022
Patent Number:
11473722
A mounting apparatus includes a wall bracket, a first intermediate bracket, a second intermediate bracket, a first rail, and a second rail. Each intermediate bracket affixes to the wall bracket and includes a connection mechanism to affix the intermediate bracket to the wall bracket, a first side including a first plurality of mounting screw holes, a second side including a first set of threaded fasteners, and a third side including a second set of threaded fasteners. The first rail is…
Air-cooled ammonia refrigeration systems and methods
Granted: October 11, 2022
Patent Number:
11466905
In some embodiments, an air-cooled ammonia refrigeration system comprises: an air-cooled condenser comprising a heat exchanger and at least one axial fan; an evaporator coupled to the air-cooled condenser; a subcooler positioned between the air-cooled condenser and the evaporator; a compressor coupled to the evaporator; an oil cooler coupled to the compressor; a water system coupled to the air-cooled condenser, the water system comprising a water source, a water pump, and a plurality of…
System, non-transitory computer readable medium, and method for personalized complementary recommendations
Granted: October 11, 2022
Patent Number:
11468494
Systems and methods for generating a set of personalized complementary recommendations is disclosed. A user identifier and an anchor item identifier are received. A set of personalized-weighted items and a set of complimentary-weighted items are each generated based on the user identifier and the anchor item identifier. The personalized-weighted items are generated by a trained supervised model. The complementary-weighted items are generated by a trained unsupervised model. A set of…
Systems and methods of product identification within an image
Granted: October 11, 2022
Patent Number:
11468491
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…
System, non-transitory computer readable medium, and method for self-attention with functional time representation learning
Granted: October 11, 2022
Patent Number:
11468489
System and method for generating a ranked list are disclosed. A plurality of prior interactions for a first customer are received by a computing device. Each of the prior interactions includes a product interaction and time. A ranked list of item recommendations is generated based on the plurality of prior interactions. The ranked list of item recommendations is generated by a trained prediction model trained using temporal information embedded into a finite-dimensional vector space. The…
Safety plug
Granted: October 11, 2022
Patent Number:
D966202
Using a sharded distributed cache as a pipeline integration buffer
Granted: October 4, 2022
Patent Number:
11463551
Systems and methods of operating a distributed cache in a fast producer, slow consumer environment are disclosed. A system implements a distributed cache including a plurality of shards. Each shard includes a set of item containers selected from a plurality of containers. A first event related to a first item container in the set of item containers is received and the first item container is updated to include the first event. The first item container is positioned in at least one…
System and method for automated analysis of electronic travel data
Granted: October 4, 2022
Patent Number:
11462037
Exemplary embodiments relate to systems, methods and computer readable medium for automatically processing and classifying and optimizing travel contracts, travel data, and travel purchase decisions. An example system includes an image processing module, an image segmentation module, a segment filtering module, a classification module, a validation module, an analysis module, and an optimization module.
Systems to fulfill a picked sales order and related methods therefor
Granted: October 4, 2022
Patent Number:
11461831
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 request for an order comprising one or more items; determining when the order is eligible for batch picking by finding one or more other orders comprising at least one of the one or more items; and when the order is determined to be eligible for batch picking with the one or more other…
Systems and methods for generating basket and item quantity predictions using machine learning architectures
Granted: October 4, 2022
Patent Number:
11461827
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: generating a feature vector for a user based, at least in part, on historical data pertaining to the user's previous transactions; generating, using a quantity prediction model of a machine learning architecture, a respective item quantity prediction for each of one or more items included in…
Methods and apparatus for automatically providing personalized item reviews
Granted: October 4, 2022
Patent Number:
11461822
This application relates to apparatus and methods for automatically determining and providing item reviews to users. In some examples, a computing device obtains review data identifying one or more reviews for each of a plurality of items. The computing device determines keywords for each of the items based on parsing the review data corresponding to each of items. The computing device may obtain data identifying engagement of items for a user during a browsing session, such as items a…
Methods and apparatus for datacenter communications
Granted: October 4, 2022
Patent Number:
11461209
This application relates to apparatus and methods for communication with and management of datacenters, such as cloud datacenters employing multiple servers. A control server may identify one or more validations to be executed for a plurality of datacenters. The validations may include a test, a configuration, or a status inquiry of the datacenters or servers of the datacenters, for example. The control server may identify a single user request to execute the validations for the…
Modular shelf assembly for a cosmetic fixture system
Granted: September 27, 2022
Patent Number:
11452387
Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a shelf assembly.
Methods and apparatus for electronically providing item recommendations for advertisement
Granted: September 27, 2022
Patent Number:
11455655
This application relates to apparatus and methods for automatically determining and providing recommendations of items to advertise customers. In some examples, a computing device generates feature data based on historical website interaction data, historical transaction data, and item categorical data. The computing device trains each of a plurality of machine learning models based on the generated feature data. The computing device may then receive a plurality of recommended items to…
Methods and apparatus for payment fraud detection
Granted: September 27, 2022
Patent Number:
11455638
This application relates to apparatus and methods for identifying fraudulent transactions. In some examples, a computing device generates a decision matrix to identify fraudulent transactions. To generate the decision matrix, the computing device may determine scores for a plurality of transactions, and may determine transaction categories for each transaction based on the scores. The computing device may also determine a number of predictable features based on applying machine learning…
