Systems and methods for receiving retail products
Granted: February 1, 2022
Patent Number:
11235694
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to receiving retail products. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for receiving retail products including: a temperature controlled storage container and comprising: one or more chambers having corresponding chamber temperatures that are each individually maintained and adjustable based on a particular temperature assigned by a server to each of the one or more chambers; one or more temperature sensors; a…
System and method for image-based replenishment
Granted: January 25, 2022
Patent Number:
11232398
Systems, methods, and machine readable media are provided for image-based replenishment. In exemplary embodiments, a system periodically obtains an image from one or more imaging devices in a facility of a selected rack of items among a group of racks. The system determines, based on the image, a first volume indicative of a volume of items on the rack. The system retrieves a sales forecast for the items on the selected rack and determines an expected second volume of items on the rack…
Dynamic termination zone detection system
Granted: January 25, 2022
Patent Number:
11232396
Examples provide a tag manager component that identifies a plurality of stationary RFID tags located within a three-dimensional space outside an item display area based on an analysis of RFID tag data associated with the plurality of RFID tag readers. A zone detection component analyzes item data associated with a plurality of items corresponding to the plurality of stationary RFID tags and location data associated with the three-dimensional space using a set of per-item criteria. The…
Method and apparatus for ecommerce search ranking
Granted: January 25, 2022
Patent Number:
11232163
An e-commerce search ranking system is provided and generally includes a server (e.g., application server), a database, and a customer computing device. The server can obtain user search query listings associated with a search term of users' search sessions to determine user engagement of the items. The server also determines that the items, and any items appearing before the items in each user search query listing, were examined. The server can then aggregate the information in the…
Systems and methods for webpage personalization
Granted: January 18, 2022
Patent Number:
11228660
A system can include one or more processing modules and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processing modules and perform receiving, from an electronic device, a search query from a user of a plurality of users; processing first data; and facilitating displaying a set of items. Processing the first data can comprise determining one or more keywords by capturing the one or more keywords during a time…
Flexible store fulfillment
Granted: January 18, 2022
Patent Number:
11227244
Aspects described herein relate to a flexible order fulfillment management system that utilizes predefined fulfillment workflows including common business processes. By utilizing predefined workflows including common business processes, the order fulfillment management system is able to drive store-based fulfillment programs efficiently as multiple fulfillment workflows may utilize the same common business processes and a single fulfillment management system may operate workflows in…
System and method for assigning employees to cash registers
Granted: January 18, 2022
Patent Number:
11227241
A method and system for automatically assigning employees to work plurality of cash registers when the employees report for work is described. The system and method automatically compares the employee's qualifications to the current operational status of a plurality of cash registers and any parameters that may govern the operation of the cash registers such as age requirements for the sale of alcohol. The system automatically assigns an employee to a cash register and transmits real…
Systems and methods for identifying items in a digital image
Granted: January 18, 2022
Patent Number:
11227189
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 receiving a digital image comprising multiple items; determining an embedding for the digital image using a machine learning algorithm trained on one or more combined digital images, the combined digital image comprising one or more annotated digital images; identifying an item of the…
Air-cooled ammonia refrigeration systems and methods
Granted: January 18, 2022
Patent Number:
11226143
In some embodiments, an air-cooled ammonia refrigeration system comprises: a plurality of air-cooled condensers, each having a heat exchanger and at least one axial fan and having a first operating state capable of condensing vaporous ammonia to form liquid ammonia; 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; and a plurality…
Systems and methods for a reactive attribute management platform
Granted: January 11, 2022
Patent Number:
11222024
A system receives, from a content source, product information that can comprise core product data for the product and a product identification for the product. The one or more derived attributes that can be based at least on a respective use case of one or more uses cases that affects the one or more products presented in a content catalog. The content feed can merge the at least one of the one or more derived attributes with the product information to update the product information in…
Server computer and networked computer system for evaluating, storing, and managing labels for classification model evaluation and training
Granted: January 4, 2022
Patent Number:
11216855
A system for use in monitoring an operation of a classification model in generating estimated labels for item records is described herein. The system receives a current labeling budget value including a number of trusted labels available for use in a labeling operation, determines a current selection probability for each item record included in an item list as a function of the current labeling budget value, selects a plurality of item records from the item list as a function of each…
Methods and apparatus for automatically providing personalized search results
Granted: January 4, 2022
Patent Number:
11216519
This application relates to apparatus and methods for generating preference profiles that may be used to rank search results. In some examples, a computing device obtains browsing session data and determines items that were engaged, such as items that were viewed or clicked. The computing device obtains item property data, such as product descriptions, for the items, and applies a dependency parser to the item property data to identify portions that include certain words, such as nouns…
Method and apparatus to more quickly classify additional text entries
Granted: January 4, 2022
Patent Number:
11216501
A control circuit obtains and utilizes a first set of rules that determines a distance, as a function of a modified Jaccard distance, between each of a number of predetermined classes. The control circuit utilizes that information to generate groups of the predefined classes by evaluating the distance between each of the predetermined classes. First probabilities for each of the additional text entries regarding membership in each of the groups so generated is calculated along with…
Systems and methods for searching retail products and locations using a universal search bar
Granted: December 28, 2021
Patent Number:
11210728
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to searching retail products for purchase and locations of physical retail stores. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for searching both retail products for purchase and locations of physical retail stores including a user interface; a memory device; one or more databases; a universal search bar cooperatively operating with the user interface to provide a single search tool for a customer to search the…
Systems and methods for identifying negotiable items
Granted: December 28, 2021
Patent Number:
11210691
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to automatically determining a discount for an item. In some embodiments, a system comprises an item database including information about a plurality of items, a control circuit configured to determine substitute items, calculate a score indicative of how similar a substitute item is to an item, determine a group of substitute items including items for which the score is above a threshold, determine a list of…
Systems and methods for interactive shopping using a mobile computing device
Granted: December 28, 2021
Patent Number:
11210688
A computer-implemented method for interactive shopping by a customer includes providing a downloadable user interface readable on a mobile electronic device that receives shopping list data representing items in a shopping list associated with the customer and receives coupon data representing coupons held by the customer for one or more of the items in an inventory of items for sale at a retail store. The shopping list includes items selected by the customer from the inventory of items.…
Systems and methods for generating a two-dimensional planogram based on intermediate data structures
Granted: December 28, 2021
Patent Number:
11210618
A system for generating a two-dimensional planogram. The system generates, for a facility in a cluster of facilities, a planogram for sets of items using an intermediate file.
System and method for high-availability in a distributed computing environment including multiple availability zones
Granted: December 28, 2021
Patent Number:
11210317
Systems and methods of distributing replicas within a data center are disclosed. A replica distribution scheme for one or more shards is received. The replica distribution scheme indicates a number of replicas of the one or more shards to be distributed within a data center. The data center comprises a plurality of hosts divided into at least a first hierarchical level and a second hierarchical level. A usage score is calculated for a plurality of nodes in the first hierarchical level of…
Systems and methods for a title quality scoring framework
Granted: December 28, 2021
Patent Number:
11210287
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 title of an item associated with an online catalog; interpreting, using a natural language model, one or more attributes of the predetermined set of attributes; determining a first title quality score for the title based on a first rule; determining a second title quality score for the title…
Online platform for processing merchandise shipping
Granted: December 21, 2021
Patent Number:
11205215
Systems, methods, and processor-readable storage media for processing merchandise shipping are provided to ensure that a supplier fulfills a purchase order in a manner that will keep a supply chain filled with the product based on a demand. For example, when a purchase order is generated, a timer can be activated. Within a predetermined period, the supplier can confirm fulfilment of purchase order through an online platform. Based on this confirmation and historical data collected for…
