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…
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.
System and method for management of perpetual inventory values based upon confidence level
Granted: September 20, 2022
Patent Number:
11449828
A priority is dynamically assigned to each of the inventory-related values. A confidence score is determined based upon an evaluation of all of the prioritized inventory-related values. Based upon the confidence score, one or more PI programs for the retail store is authorized for utilization. The number of inventory-related values used and the priorities for these values are dynamically changeable.
Automatic determination of a shipping speed to display for an item
Granted: September 20, 2022
Patent Number:
11449822
A method including determining a zip code of a user using a website that displays items. The method also can include receiving a selection by the user to display information about an item of the items. The method additionally can include retrieving first information including a predetermined geo-classification for the item. The method further can include retrieving second information including a list of fulfillment nodes that can currently deliver to the zip code of the user within a…
Systems and methods for bootstrapped machine learning algorithm training
Granted: September 20, 2022
Patent Number:
11449807
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 a machine learned prediction for an item; determining that a number of entries in item user interaction data of the item is below a predetermined number-of-entries threshold; incorporating category interaction data of a hierarchical category of the item from a predetermined…
System and method for the determination of produce shelf life
Granted: September 20, 2022
Patent Number:
11448632
A system and a method for the determination of product shelf life in a supply chain environment are discussed. The system receives periodic readings from various sensors that are associated with a shipment of produce. The system determines ambient deviations throughout the supply chain for temperature, humidity and ethylene. The system determines a product shelf life based on a calculated sensitivity and exposure to temperature, humidity, and ethylene. The system determines a remaining…
Systems and methods for prioritizing trailers at receiving facility
Granted: September 13, 2022
Patent Number:
11443396
A system for prioritizing trailers delivering retail goods for an available receiving facility comprises a control unit that assigning a trailer from the plurality of trailers to be received by an available loading dock in response to data received by the control unit regarding a determined event requiring the retail goods in the trailer; and a plurality of sensors that receive and process information regarding the event and output the information as the data to the control unit. The…
Dynamic flex-space allocation system
Granted: September 13, 2022
Patent Number:
11443276
Examples provide a system for dynamic allocation of supplemental space to items based on predicted variable demand. Item data is analyzed using a set of item selection criteria to identify an item located within a predetermined distance of available flex-space associated with a topstock shelf which has a predicted time-supply predicted to be less than a threshold time-supply during a predicted time-period. A portion of flex-space sufficient to increase the time-supply enough to meet the…
System and method for an adaptive election in semi-distributed environments
Granted: May 10, 2022
Patent Number:
11327854
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for receiving, at a central server from a first remote data transmission device, first product data for a product at a first location and second product data for the product from a second remote data transmission device at a second location. The respective data is processed sequentially, then determined to contain identical data, such that the system selects a data transmission device as the leader. Then, at a second time, the system…
Hybrid unmanned aerial vehicle for delivering cargo
Granted: May 10, 2022
Patent Number:
11325698
Disclosed herein are aspects of a hybrid unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). In one embodiment, the hybrid UAV includes a fuselage configured to hold cargo, and at least one wing. The wing has a body that includes upper and lower surfaces and is configured to generate lift to enable the UAV to glide through the air. At least one rotor assembly is held within the body of the wing between the upper and lower surfaces of the wing. The upper and lower surfaces of the wing include upper and lower…
Stocking cart and method of transporting items using the same
Granted: May 10, 2022
Patent Number:
11325626
A stocking cart includes a base structure having an opening configured to receive forks of a forklift; a plurality of wheels connected to the base structure; a back panel mounted to the base structure and extending opposite from the plurality of wheels; first and second lateral panels mounted to the base structure, the first and second lateral panels and the back panel defining an interior space of the cart; and at least one strap provided on an open side of the cart to provide access to…
Personalized ranking using deep attribute extraction and attentive user interest embeddings
Granted: May 3, 2022
Patent Number:
11321406
A system and method of generating user personalized search results is disclosed. A search query including one or more words is received and a set of relevance-based search results is generated in response to the search query. One or more query attributes are generated for the search query. Historic data for a user associated with the search query is received and a set of personalized search results is generated from the set of relevance-based search results based on the query attributes…
Handle mounted fan guard
Granted: May 3, 2022
Patent Number:
D950704
Methods and systems for determining an internal property of a food product
Granted: April 26, 2022
Patent Number:
11313820
Systems and methods are provided to determine an internal property of a food product. The system includes one or more analyzing devices, a camera and a central unit in communication with the camera and analyzing device. The analyzing device is configured to analyze an interior region of the food product. The camera is configured to analyze an external property of the food product. The central unit is configured to determine the internal property of the food product based on feedback…
Methods and apparatus for determining block storage status
Granted: April 26, 2022
Patent Number:
11316924
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 a plurality of datacenters from which to request block storage status. The control server may identify a user request to execute multiple requests to obtain the block storage status from the plurality of datacenters. Based on the user request, the control server may generate the plurality of requests.…
System and method of improving computer network system
Granted: April 26, 2022
Patent Number:
11316734
A method of improving computer network, includes receiving an identification of performance metrics of the computer network; automatically capturing screenshots of the monitoring dashboards of the performance metrics based on the identification; storing automatically the captured screenshots in an image file format on a storage facility; transmitting automatically and selectively, via a messaging channel, the captured screenshots to designated recipients; analyzing the received…
Routine item recommendations
Granted: April 26, 2022
Patent Number:
11315165
An approach is disclosed for recommending complementary items based on customer shopping routines. The approach receives anchor item data. The approach identifies a routine that corresponds to the anchor item data. The routine is based on an item purchasing behavior of a customer. The approach determines categorical data within the identified routine by applying a ranking algorithm to the categorical data of the categories and the anchor item data. The categorical data is relevant to the…
System and method for visualizing workflows in an entire management ecosystem
Granted: April 26, 2022
Patent Number:
11315060
The present invention is directed to a system and method for visualizing workflows in an entire management ecosystem. A computer-implemented method of visualizing live workflows may include: aggregating, by a processor from a database, Key Performance Indicator (KPI) datasets associated with a plurality of teams, each team comprising a plurality of jobs and each job comprising a KPI dataset; obtaining a predefined service Level Agreement (SLA) value associated with each team for…
Dynamical switching between long-term and short-term rewards
Granted: April 26, 2022
Patent Number:
11314529
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 based on an optimal impression allocation. An interface is generated that includes the selected one of the…
