Systems and methods for monitoring packaging quality issues
Granted: October 19, 2021
Patent Number:
11151679
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to monitoring the quality of packages loaded onto delivery vehicles for delivery to customers. In some embodiments, there is provided a system including: a database receiving and storing package quality reports in which each report corresponds to the transport of packages by a delivery vehicle to a customer; at least one package quality report including: delivery route identification information, and package quality…
System and method for placing an order using a local device
Granted: October 19, 2021
Patent Number:
11151544
A system for purchasing one or more products is provided. The system includes a local device for retrieving identification information and a remote server connected with the local device, an order management system connected with the remote server, and an order fulfillment system connected with the order management system to fulfill the order by obtaining and delivering the product to the user. Upon receiving the identification information at the local device, the local device…
System and method for clustering products by combining attribute data with image recognition
Granted: October 19, 2021
Patent Number:
11151426
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for categorizing items based on attributes of the item and a shape of the item, where the shape of the item is determined from an image of the item. An exemplary system configured as disclosed herein can receive a request to categorize an item, the item having a plurality of attributes, and receive an image of the item. The system can identify, via a processor configured to perform image processing, a shape of the item based on the…
System and method for bootstrapping replicas from active partitions
Granted: October 5, 2021
Patent Number:
11138077
A system and method of bootstrapping replicas from existing partitions is disclosed. A distributed database is maintained by a system. The distributed database includes a first partition copy and a second partition copy each containing a database. A failure of the first partition copy is detected and a third partition copy including an empty database is generated. The database of the second partition copy is copied to the empty database of the third partition copy and the third partition…
Systems and methods for providing location-based time-limited services
Granted: October 5, 2021
Patent Number:
11138641
Systems, methods, and machine readable media are provided for location-based time-limited services. In exemplary embodiments, one or more beacons are disposed within a facility to define a geo-fenced zone. A dynamic notification module implemented in a server receives a notification that a client device is within the geo-fenced zone and determines that the device meets designated criteria based on the device interacting with the beacons at a designated time. The dynamic notification…
Systems and methods for providing substitute products in place of ordered products that are out of stock
Granted: October 5, 2021
Patent Number:
11138557
In some embodiments, methods and systems of enabling consumers to purchase substitute products when the products ordered by the consumers are out of stock include processing an internet order for a product received from a consumer in a geographic location and in response to receiving an electronic notification indicating that the product ordered by the consumer is out of stock at a retail sales facility associated with the geographic location of the consumer, generating an electronic…
System and method for iterative improvements to pre-count inventory rules
Granted: October 5, 2021
Patent Number:
11138556
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for providing adequate instructions to conduct an inventory of a store, and specifically a pre-inventory of difficult to count items. As store are selected for performing an inventory, instructions to perform pre-counts of specific items are sent. As the pre-count begins, videos, text, or other materials needed to perform a complete pre-count are distributed to the store associate performing the pre-count task. If the pre-count is…
Automated inspection system
Granted: October 5, 2021
Patent Number:
11138554
Examples of the disclosure provide for an automated inspection system. The system includes an inspection component implemented on at least one computing device with at least one sensor configured to capture data about a good; and a communication component communicatively coupled to the computing device and configured to receive information regarding regulations and quality control standards associated with the good, and transmit the information regarding the acceptability of a good to an…
Bundled application for load management system
Granted: October 5, 2021
Patent Number:
11138551
Load management systems and methods are described. A load management system comprises a database storing load information, a mobile application associated with a user account and executable on a mobile device. The mobile application includes a main application and independently executable sub-applications corresponding to workflow progresses in the distribution center. The mobile application when executed, accesses the sub-applications in response to a user logging in to the main mobile…
Metric definition and visualization
Granted: October 5, 2021
Patent Number:
11138241
Examples provide a metric definition component for creating and defining key performance indicators. A metric definition component connects to a set of data sources using database credentials to onboard the data tables. An extraction component automatically extracts data structures associated with the set of data sources. An analysis component analyzes the extracted set of data structures and a set of predefined performance metrics using a set of algorithms. The set of algorithms can…
Smart item storage cart system
Granted: October 5, 2021
Patent Number:
11137765
Examples provide a stackable smart item storage cart. The cart includes a top member with a lip along its outer edge. A set of wheels, a directional wheel locking mechanism, and a set of four side members is connected to a base member. A vertical cavity passes through a center of the main body enclosing a memory, a processor, and a data storage. The cart smart item storage carts are stackable two-carts high with the wheels locked. A set of sensor devices monitor contents of a plurality…
System and method for management of a database system
Granted: September 28, 2021
Patent Number:
11132376
A system can comprise 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 request for a write operation of an input record in a data store associated with a sharded database and an alternate-key-global-index (AKGI) database; generating a new optimistic lock value, the new optimistic lock value being unique in the sharded database; when the data store does not…
Light weight pick cart
Granted: September 28, 2021
Patent Number:
11130511
Various configurations of light weight pick carts are disclosed; some embodiments may alternate between a first configuration having two shelf racks and a second configuration having both a shelf rack and a flatbed. A first shelf rack has multiple accessory support units attached, having multiple different configurations to facilitate holding differing shapes, sizes, or weights of accessories. Swivel casters and multiple handle locations can enhance maneuverability; and proper selection…
Systems and methods autonomously performing instructed operations using a robotic device
Granted: September 21, 2021
Patent Number:
11123871
Described in detail herein is autonomous system for performing instructed operations. A switch device in electrical communication with an autonomous robot device and a remote computing system, can replicate a first display of the autonomous robot device on a second display of the remote computing system. The switch device provides an interface for remotely controlling the autonomous robot device via the remote computing system. The autonomous robot device can control the articulated arm…
Method and apparatus for ecommerce search ranking
Granted: September 21, 2021
Patent Number:
11127064
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 promoting products in product search results using transfer learning with active sampling
Granted: September 21, 2021
Patent Number:
11127062
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 a source classifier with labeled source training data of a first product category from a website of an online retailer, clustering target data for a second product category into a plurality of clusters, inserting into each cluster labeled source training data of the…
Methods and systems for generating a planogram at a retail facility
Granted: September 21, 2021
Patent Number:
11126961
Methods and systems for generating a planogram for a retail facility include an electronic device having a display screen and a camera. After a product physically stocked on a shelf on the sales floor of the retail store and contemplated to be replaced on the shelf by a better performing product is identified, a diminished reality virtual image of the location on the shelf where the product is physically positioned (but with the product to be replaced being omitted) is generated on the…
System and method for conducting a multi-channel order
Granted: September 21, 2021
Patent Number:
11126959
A method for purchasing a product at a brick-and-mortar retail establishment is provided. The method includes, but is not limited to, inputting identification information into a local device for a product sold by the brick-and-mortar retail establishment, transmitting the identification information to an order creation application, and upon receiving the identification information, selecting a dispense type for the product. The dispense type is selected from a group of dispense types…
Systems and methods for automatically requesting delivery drivers for online orders
Granted: September 21, 2021
Patent Number:
11126954
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 receiving delivery orders and/or pickup orders from customers for pickup and/or delivery of the orders during a predetermined window of time, receiving an additional delivery order from an additional customer for an additional pickup and/or delivery of the additional order to…
Systems and methods for automatically invoking a delivery request for an in-progress order
Granted: September 21, 2021
Patent Number:
11126953
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 receiving an order request from a customer, transmitting an order list from the order request to an employee of the store for a collection of products on the order list at the store by the employee, determining an estimated order collection time, continuously monitoring an…
