System and method for committing and rolling back database requests
Granted: November 23, 2021
Patent Number:
11182378
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for processing database requests on a database hosted on a stateless, non-persistent computing environment are provided. A server stores database requests to insert update or delete data in a unit of work set identified by a unique code. The database requests are performed on the database upon receiving an instruction to commit the database requests to the database. If an instruction is sent to rollback a unit of work set the database…
Auto top off tool
Granted: November 23, 2021
Patent Number:
11182357
Systems and methods for the migration of large amounts of time-varying data from a source database to a target database are disclosed. After completion of an initial long-duration migration, a validation is performed to determine if any groups of data were updated in the source database during the initial migration. Updated data is then topped-off by migration to a temporary container before merging into the target database. Subsequent validation can confirm that migration is complete or…
System and method for production readiness verification and monitoring
Granted: November 23, 2021
Patent Number:
11182139
Systems and methods for production readiness verification and monitoring are disclosed. A set of compliance requirements including one or more required-asset identifiers and a set of minimum deployment requirements for each required-asset identifier is received. Each of the one or more required-asset identifiers are associated with a cloud asset required for deployment of a target application. One or more probing messages are generated to determine an availability of each cloud asset…
Distributed autonomous robot interfacing systems and methods
Granted: November 23, 2021
Patent Number:
11179845
Described in detail herein is an automated fulfilment system including a computing system programmed to receive requests from disparate sources for physical objects disposed at one or more locations in a facility. The computing system can combine the requests, and group the physical objects in the requests based on object types or expected object locations. Autonomous robot devices can receive instructions from the computing system to retrieve a group of the physical objects and deposit…
Systems and methods for automated customer recurring payment processing
Granted: November 16, 2021
Patent Number:
11176552
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein for automated customer recurring payment processing. A central computer system being configured to detect a payment date for a recurring payment associated with a customer account, retrieve customer payment information, and submit the customer payment information to a bank system. In the event the authorization fails and an error code corresponds to a payment information error, the system automatically generates a notification message…
System and methods for point to point encryption and tokenization
Granted: November 16, 2021
Patent Number:
11178115
Mechanisms for providing point to point encryption and tokenization enabling decryption, tokenization and storage of sensitive encrypted data on one system are discussed.
Automatic transfer switch maintenance bypass cabinet
Granted: November 16, 2021
Patent Number:
11177686
According to an embodiment, an automatic transfer switch bypass breaker system can include a first plurality of breakers configured to electrically couple a first input power source or a second input power source to common load bus via an automatic transfer switch in a first state and to electrically isolate the automatic transfer switch from the first and second input power sources and the common load bus in a second state, the first plurality of breakers including at least three…
Transformation and aggregation engine
Granted: November 16, 2021
Patent Number:
11176594
A system has a gateway cluster having a gateway processor for communication with an external processor of an external user using a first protocol and data format. A non-transitory storage medium is configured for storing a database containing unfilled orders associated with the external user. An application cluster has a processor in communication with the storage medium for accessing the database. The gateway processor can communicate with the application processor using a second…
Systems and methods for recommending cold-start items on a website of a retailer
Granted: November 16, 2021
Patent Number:
11176592
Systems and methods including 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 training one or more first models to recommend a first item after a user has had an interaction on the web site of the online retailer with a second item, determining static features common to both the first item and the second item, training a second model to determine…
System, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for assigning offers to a plurality of target customers
Granted: November 16, 2021
Patent Number:
11176579
A system can perform certain acts. The acts can include determining score values to identify a plurality of target customers associated with a plurality of potential offers. The acts can include receiving bids from the plurality of target customers for the plurality of potential offers. The acts can include performing an iterative process for each respective target customer of the plurality of target customers to take turns to submit a respective bid for each respective potential offer…
System and method for anomaly detection and deduplication of electronic data feeds
Granted: November 16, 2021
Patent Number:
11176517
A method includes receiving an electronic feed inventory file; creating a feed message including a batch of inventory messages based on the feed inventory file; placing the feed message in a message queue; performing validation one each of the inventory messages; generating a response to each of inventory messages that are invalidated; generating a first batch of response message including the responses to the inventory messages that are invalidated, the first batch of response message…
Method and apparatus for determining responses to digital inquiry related questions
Granted: November 9, 2021
Patent Number:
11170032
An e-commerce voice response determination system is provided and generally includes a server and a customer computing device. The server may determine, based on a user query, a plurality of product descriptions. The server may determine a similarity value between the user query and each of the product descriptions based on the similarity between each word of the user query and each word of the product descriptions. The server may determine the product description with the most…
Systems and methods for automatically refueling vehicles of customers of a retailer
Granted: November 9, 2021
Patent Number:
11167977
In some embodiments, methods and systems are provided for automatically refueling vehicles of authenticated customers of a retailer. After the vehicle driven by an operator is scanned at a refueling station of the retailer and identified as a vehicle associated with an authorized customer of the retailer, the operator and/or the operator's personal electronic device are scanned in order to verify that the operator of the authenticated vehicle is a customer of the retailer authorized to…
Customized service request permission control system
Granted: November 2, 2021
Patent Number:
11165816
Examples provide a permission service for controlling service requests to web services. A permission controller monitors the number of active requests to a selected web service. When a permission request associated with the selected web service is received from a client, the permission service compares the current number of active requests to a per-service maximum threshold number of active requests. The permission controller maintains a per-threshold number of active requests customized…
System and method for automated electronic catalogue management and electronic image quality assessment
Granted: November 2, 2021
Patent Number:
11164300
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for cataloguing and assessing images. This is performed by a system which receives images of an item, and identifying, within each image, the item. The system performs a structural similarity analysis of the item and for each image applies a plurality of distortions, such that for each image in the images multiple distorted images are generated. The system identifies within the distorted images at least one feature and applies a…
System and method for annotating reviews
Granted: November 2, 2021
Patent Number:
11164223
A system and method for analyzing reviews is disclosed herein. User-generated content (UGC) such as on-line reviews of products can be broken up in to different features of the products being reviewed. The UGC is analyzed to find each mention of each feature. Then each mention is analyzed to determine a polarity of each mention. The polarities are aggregated into an overall feature score that tallies the polarity across all reviews. Such a feature score can be calculated for each…
System and method for on-site purchases at automated storage and retrieval system
Granted: November 2, 2021
Patent Number:
11164127
A method for an on-site purchase at an automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS) can include: analyzing likely impulse purchases for customers during a given season, the likely impulse purchases being associated with each customer's profile which comprises preferences, purchase history and search history; stocking items for customers to purchase and pick up at the ASRS, the stocked items comprising general and seasonal items, and supplementary items selected based on an analysis of…
Shopping cart with bag attachment mechanism
Granted: October 26, 2021
Patent Number:
11155291
Shopping carts and mobile shopping baskets equipped with one or more bag attachment mechanisms are discussed. The shopping carts and mobile shopping baskets may include multiple rows of bag attachment mechanisms located at varying distances from a top edge of a cart or basket side wall. The shopping carts and mobile shopping baskets may include bag attachment mechanisms on multiple side walls of the basket. The bag attachment mechanisms may take a number of forms including downward…
System for crowdsourced cold-chain compliant item selection
Granted: October 26, 2021
Patent Number:
11157870
Examples provide a system for cold-chain compliant item selection. A set of perishable items are selected for retrieval by a user based on item data, cold-chain compliance score(s), and/or cold-chain compliance restrictions associated with each user. The selected set of items are assigned to the user for retrieval in accordance with a set of cold-chain compliance parameters, including a per-item maximum dwell-time specifying a maximum time interval between removal of a perishable item…
Shipment verification
Granted: October 26, 2021
Patent Number:
11157865
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to verify accuracy of a shipment. In some embodiments, items loaded to and/or unloaded from a delivery vehicle are scanned and compared to a delivery schedule, and a unique identifier is provided to confirm proper loading/unloading at a subsequent scheduled stop of the vehicle.
