Systems and methods for processing emergency alert notifications
Granted: July 9, 2024
Patent Number:
12033493
In some embodiments, methods and systems are provided for managing emergency notifications and incident reports at a commercial facility. A graphical interface enables a worker associated with a facility to input information regarding an ongoing/impending emergency event, e.g., Active Threat, Acts of Violence, Fire/Explosion, Injury, Power Failure, Missing Child, Severe Weather, Robbery, Hazmat, Bomb Threat, Covid-19, Store Closure, Special Events etc. This information is processed via…
Perceived value attribution model
Granted: July 9, 2024
Patent Number:
12033179
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: tracking touchpoints by a user over a first time period; after receiving an order, determining, using a machine-learning model, a respective contribution of each of the touchpoints, wherein the machine-learning model is trained to predict a probability of the user placing the order during a second time…
Automatic resolution of the explore-exploit decision in omnichannel settings
Granted: July 9, 2024
Patent Number:
12033178
A method including tracking impression response data in response to online impressions of content elements displayed to users of a website. The method also can include performing a classification of the users based on the impression response data. The method additionally can include generating a webpage of the website to comprise a content element selected from among the content elements based on the classification of a user of the users. Other embodiments are described.
Image searching using a full-text search engine
Granted: July 9, 2024
Patent Number:
12032626
A method including pre-screening second images from a database for a search result based on a first image and also based on respective substring distances between first binary substrings for the first image and respective second binary substrings for each of the second images. The method further can include after the pre-screening, determining a respective image distance for each third image of third images of the search result, wherein the respective image distance is between the first…
Display screen with graphical user interface
Granted: July 9, 2024
Patent Number:
D1034627
Outbound hazmat handling system
Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number:
12026657
A system for handling hazmat products in a fulfillment center. The system includes a conveyance and packing equipment assembly that facilitates physical acquisition and consolidation of inventory items into a container, a labeling applicator that automatically applies hazmat labels, a scan tunnel, and a server. The server includes computing hardware of a processor, a memory, an input/output engine, a database, and a hazmat handling engine. The input/output engine is configured to receive…
Systems and methods for routing data in distributed environments
Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number:
12028205
Described in detail herein are systems and methods for routing data in a distributed environment. A controller can maintain an inactive state. A terminal can receive a request associated with a physical object. The terminal can be communicatively coupled to a cloud computing system. The terminal can attempt to transmit the request to the cloud computing system. A router communicatively coupled to the controller and cloud computing system can attempt to initiate communication between the…
Systems and methods for ingredient-to-product mapping
Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number:
12026765
A system including 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: identifying each ingredient in an ingredient list of a recipe published on a webpage by identifying query strings from content on the webpage associated with one or more ingredients of the recipe; extracting, using an iterative process, respective ingredients from…
Systems and methods for identifying and using micro-intents
Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number:
12026728
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 accessing first transaction data stored in a transaction database, the first transaction data describing first transactions for first items from first users; determining, using the first transaction data, first micro-intents associated with the first transaction data; grouping…
Systems and methods for verifying integrity of associate training
Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number:
12026676
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to verifying integrity of associate training. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for verifying integrity of associate training at a facility including a plurality of wireless devices; a plurality of sensors; one or more databases; and a control circuit. By one approach; the control circuit is configured to: receive first and second associate identifiers; determine first, second, and third areas;…
Personalizing user interface displays in real-time
Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number:
12026357
A method implemented via execution of computing instructions configured to run at one or more processors and stored at one or more non-transitory computer-readable media. The method can include receiving, via a computer network, a user interaction signal from a user device for a user. The method further can include after receiving the user interaction signal, determining, in real-time via a machine learning model, a plurality of user intent labels based at least in part on transaction…
Methods and apparatuses for identifying privacy-sensitive users in recommender systems
Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number:
12026285
A privacy system includes a computing device configured to obtain user transactional data characterizing at least one transaction of a user on an ecommerce marketplace and to determine a privacy vulnerability score of the user by comparing the transactional data to a user vulnerability distribution. The computing device is also configured to send the privacy vulnerability score to a personalization engine.
Refrigeration heat reclaim
Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number:
12025357
Provided are a refrigeration heat reclaim unit and method, comprising a heat exchanger, comprising a refrigerant inlet that receives a flow of refrigerant having a first state; a refrigerant outlet that outputs the flow of refrigerant having a second state; a water loop inlet that receives a flow of liquid at a first temperature; a water loop outlet that outputs the flow of liquid from the reclaim heat exchanger at a second temperature that is greater than the first temperature in…
Preassembled modular vacuum plumbing assembly
Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number:
12024868
A modular vacuum plumbing assembly includes a frame, a water supply conduit attached to the frame, and a wastewater outlet conduit attached to the frame. Water travels from a water supply system to a plumbing fixture via the water supply conduit and wastewater travels away from the plumbing fixture via the wastewater outlet conduit.
Packing by destination for automated fulfilled goods
Granted: July 2, 2024
Patent Number:
12024366
A system and method are disclosed relating to an automated store or system including an automated fulfillment section having a storage structure for storing fungible and/or non-fungible goods. The fungible and/or non-fungible goods may be retrieved from storage in response to a customer order. The system and method of the present technology allows retrieved fungible and/or non-fungible goods to be sorted and packed in accordance with stored customer preferences.
Systems and methods for altering a graphical user interface based on exploration of search query ranking
Granted: June 25, 2024
Patent Number:
12019637
A systems including 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, perform: receiving in-session user activity information, the in-session user activity information comprising a user search query from a user and a ranked list of products to be displayed to the user based on the user search query, and a product of the products being part of a boost category; determining a…
Product database systems and methods enabling the filtering of products and enhancing customer access
Granted: June 25, 2024
Patent Number:
12020313
In some embodiments, systems manage databases for multiple event shopping, comprising: a plurality of distributed database management systems comprising: a management control circuit; a filter control circuit; customer event databases; and a plurality of product databases maintaining current product information sets, each product information set comprises: product information corresponding to one of the hundreds of thousands of retail products, and an association to at least one of a…
Methods and apparatus for automatic sale forecasts using machine learning processes
Granted: June 25, 2024
Patent Number:
12020191
This application relates to employing trained machine learning processes to predict sales across various sale channels. For example, a computing device may generate features based on historical sales information, and trains the machine learning processes based on the generated features. In some examples, the computing device determines fixed cost effects from selling items across various sales channels, and adjusts the sales information based on the fixed cost effects. The computing…
Systems and methods for identifying incidents using social media
Granted: June 25, 2024
Patent Number:
12019697
Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are provided for identifying violent or other specified types of incidents. An exemplary system captures social media data from at least one source relating to an incident occurring at one of a group of predetermined locations, The exemplary system processes the social media data to determine a severity and location of a violent incident and clusters multiple reports of a single incident. The exemplary system further displays a location of the…
Methods and apparatus for automatically providing personalized search results
Granted: June 25, 2024
Patent Number:
12019639
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…
