Walmart Patent Grants

System, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for generating recommendations

Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number: 12182845
A system can include a database and a computing device. The computing device is configured to receive an item recommendation request corresponding to an asset from an analyst device and select a set of item identifiers of a plurality of item identifiers. An associated published timeframe of the selected item identifiers is related to a present timeframe. The computing device is further configured to determine a composite similarity value for each item identifier of the set of item…

Systems and methods for personalizing search engine recall and ranking using machine learning techniques

Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number: 12182215
A system can include one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising: receiving, at a search engine, a user search query submitted by a user; generating, using a recall personalization model, a simulated query that supplements the user search query with a feature vector reflecting personalization preferences of…

Automated proxy picker system for non-fungible goods

Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12175405
A system and method for providing proxy picking of non-fungible goods within an automated storage and retrieval system is provided, which repurposes one or more automated mobile robots operating within the automated inventory management system to perform a plurality of tasks across multiple different areas of an automated store. The proxy picking system and method are configured to pick individually identified non-fungible goods according to a customer selection on an ordering screen…

Methods and apparatus for anomaly detections

Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12175505
This application relates to apparatus and methods for identifying anomalies within data, such as pricing data. In some examples, a computing device receives data updates and selects a machine learning model to apply to the data update. The computing device may train the machine learning model with features generated based on historical purchase order data. An anomaly score is generated based on application of the machine learning model. Based on the anomaly score, the data update is…

Systems and methods for assessing quality of retail products

Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12175476
Systems and methods for assessing quality of and detecting defects in retail products include a housing having an interior, a product holding surface, an image capture device configured to capture an image of the product, a lighting element configured to provide lighting within the housing, an electronic database configured to store electronic data including reference image data associated with the product and representing the product in various sizes and various quality states, and a…

Methods and apparatus for electronic detection of fraudulent transactions using machine learning processes

Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12175469
This application relates to apparatus and methods for identifying fraudulent transactions. The embodiments may employ machine learning processes to detect fraudulent activity. In some examples, a computing device determines customer data and device data for a customer and device involved in a transaction. The customer data may include previous transactions by the customer, and the device data may include previous transactions involving the device. The computing device generates features…

Digital wallet management system

Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12175452
An example system for digital wallet management including one or more databases and a computing system is described. The databases are configured to store data corresponding to purchase history of a user, the purchase history including payment account information for a first transaction captured through a reader at a point-of-sale system at the time of the first transaction and an identifier associated with the first transaction. The computing system receives a machine-readable element…

On-hand inventory accuracy system

Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12175422
Examples provides on-hand inventory accuracy using radio frequency identification (RFID) tag data and expected populations of items for a plurality of sub-locations within a scan area. The system calculates a dynamic expected population of items value for each sub-location using item level data and modular display data for an item assortment assigned to a modular display within each sub-location. If the items detected by the RFID tag data match the expected population of items with a…

Shipment receiving systems and methods including notification and reconciliation features

Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12175420
Shipment receiving systems and methods are disclosed. Invoice and store inventory management data is provided to an invoice processor for assigning expected destinations to lanes of a material transporter having and a plurality of outlet lanes that each have an indicator. A scanner determines a case identifier for each case which is routed accordingly. One or more notifications is provided to the indicator of one or more of the plurality of outlet lanes. Received shipment data enables…

System and method for dispatching drivers for delivering grocery orders and facilitating digital tipping

Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12175414
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 more processors and perform a method for dispatching a delivery driver and allowing the user to electronically tip the delivery driver. The method in this embodiment can comprise: receiving a delivery request from a user; and determining whether the order is eligible for delivery. When the order is eligible for delivery, the…

Systems and methods for high throughput cutting of sealing elements on packages

Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12172335
Systems and methods described herein are optimized for cutting sealing elements on packages using optical radiation. Packages can pass through a cutting device that applies the optical radiation to damage, vaporize, or cut the sealing element (e.g., tape) on the package. The systems and methods control several aspects of the cutting process to adjust throughput, improve efficiency, and reduce line stoppages. Systems can include an in-feed conveyor that orients packages and rejects…

Systems and methods for cold-start recommendation using largescale graph models

Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number: 12169511
Systems and methods of generating interfaces including recommended items selected by a graph-based cold-start (GCS) model are disclosed. A request for an interface is received and a set of interface items is generated for inclusion in the interface. The set of interface items is selected, at least in part, by a GCS model including a semantic similarity component and a viewed-also-viewed component. The set of interface items is generated based on a combination of an output of the semantic…

Display screen with graphical user interface

Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number: D1054430

Methods and systems for identifying and remediating poor user experiences on computing devices

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12166811
This application relates to apparatus and methods for identifying and remediating poor user experiences on computing devices. In some examples, a user speed determination device is configured to receive a content delivery request for delivery of content to a user device. The computing is also configured to obtain user identification data, obtain user device data and determine a user device speed based on the user identification data and the user device data. The computing device then…

Identifying object of interest for handicapped individuals based on eye movement patterns

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12165192
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided to support individuals in a retail environment. Some embodiments, provide systems, comprising: a plurality of cameras positioned in a retail store; an image processing control circuit configured to determine a customer field of view; a product identification control circuit configured to identify a set of multiple products within the identified customer field of view, assign a viewing probability to each product without the first…

Systems and methods of product recognition through multi-model image processing

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12165101
In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided to recognize retail products, comprising: a model training system configured to: identify a customer; access an associated customer profile; access and apply a set of filtering rules to a product database based on customer data; generate a listing of products specific to the customer; access and apply a model training set of rules to train a machine learning model based on the listing of products and corresponding image data for each…

Automated decant system

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12162686
An automated decant system is disclosed for processing pallets of cased goods received at a facility, extracting packaging for the cases and transferring eaches within the cases to totes, possibly organized by SKU in sub-totes within the tote.

Systems and methods for object storage and retrieval

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12162684
Described in detail herein are object storage and retrieval systems and methods. A storage receptacle can be configured to receive an input from an electronic device including a decoded identifier from a unique optical machine-readable element associated with one or more physical objects, via an input device, and cause the one or more physical objects to be available via at least one opening of the storage receptacle.

Systems and methods for object replacement

Granted: December 3, 2024
Patent Number: 12159259
Some embodiments provide systems and methods to enable object replacement. A central computing system can receive data associated with quantities of like physical objects from remote systems. The central computing system can adjust the first quantity of the like physical objects stored in the first one of the remote systems based on the second quantity of the like physical objects stored in the at least another one of the remote systems. The central computing system can determine the…

Systems, devices, and methods for generating personalized electronic documents

Granted: December 3, 2024
Patent Number: 12159268
Methodologies, systems, and computer-readable media provided for a system for generating personalized electronic documents and verifying user identity are discussed. The system receives user identification data and check information from a user application. The check information is validated by the issuer of the check. The system transmits a notification to the user application that includes a machine readable code. The user application presents the machine readable code and the user…