Patents by Inventor DERRIC D'SOUZA
DERRIC D'SOUZA has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11587191Abstract: 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 one or more processors and perform: transmitting an invitation to a mobile application on a mobile device of a user, wherein the invitation authorizes the mobile application on the mobile device to be used to check-in to a facility; generating, by a visitor application, an image that is displayed on a kiosk at an entrance of the facility; receiving, from the mobile device, image data of the image, as scanned by the mobile application from the kiosk, and mobile application data; validating whether the mobile application data and the image data satisfy one or more criteria; and when the one or more criteria are satisfied, authorizing the user to access the facility. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLCInventors: Derric D'Souza, Danika Alleen Goecke
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Publication number: 20220101469Abstract: 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 one or more processors and perform: transmitting an invitation to a mobile application on a mobile device of a user, wherein the invitation authorizes the mobile application on the mobile device to be used to check-in to a facility; generating, by a visitor application, an image that is displayed on a kiosk at an entrance of the facility; receiving, from the mobile device, image data of the image, as scanned by the mobile application from the kiosk, and mobile application data; validating whether the mobile application data and the image data satisfy one or more criteria; and when the one or more criteria are satisfied, authorizing the user to access the facility. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Derric D'Souza, Danika Alleen Goecke
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Patent number: 11227241Abstract: 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 time operational status of those cash registers to a supervisor via a wireless device.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2018Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Allen Ashley, Anthony William Helms, Kevin Hayes, Johan Christophe Baer, Derric D'souza, Joshua David Osmon
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Publication number: 20200051092Abstract: At a retail store or product storage location, a product is received and sold to a customer in a sales transaction. The sale transaction is recorded on a blockchain ledger, and the sales transaction includes customer identification information. A recall report is received concerning the product. The blockchain ledger is accessed and customers that purchased the recalled product are identified using the customer identification information. An action to take is determined. The action utilizes the contact information of customers that purchased the recalled product.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2019Publication date: February 13, 2020Inventors: Derric D'Souza, Precious N. Baugh, Rachel A. D'Souza, Greg L. Sanders, Enoch Acheampong, Michael Williams, Michael Andrew Budell Fischer
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Publication number: 20180189711Abstract: 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 time operational status of those cash registers to a supervisor via a wireless device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2018Publication date: July 5, 2018Inventors: Allen Ashley, Anthony William Helms, Kevin Hayes, Johan Christophe Baer, Derric D'souza, Joshua David Osmon
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Patent number: 9928471Abstract: 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 time operational status of those cash registers to a supervisor via a wireless device.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2013Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.Inventors: Allen Ashley, Anthony Helms, Kevin Hayes, Johan Christophe Baer, Derric D'Souza, Josh Osmon
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Publication number: 20170076240Abstract: A control circuit for a retail sales facility presents via an active display a plurality of leaderboards that correspond to a variety of different associate-level performance statistics. These statistics can include, but are not limited to, the number of products that a given associate picks as part of moving products from a stock area to the retail sales product display area (over, for example, a given amount of time) and/or an aggregated monetary value of products that are so picked, a number of products that are so picked exclusively from a particular area of the product stock area, a number of manually-created requirements to so move products, and/or a number of products that are placed for storage in the product stock area itself. Such statistics can represent any time period of choice including, for example, a particular work shift such as a current work shift.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: Zulfiqar A. Paracha, Ryan W. Travis, Wallace C. King, Brian Harrison, William R. Piech, Mahesh S. Thangaraj, Brian D. Burge, Anthony W. Helms, Derric D'souza, Kevin E. Hill, Nirmal Unnikrishnan, Michael S. McGuire, Larry M. Tyler, II, Michael Andrew Budell Fischer, Darrell V. Waurio
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Publication number: 20160328725Abstract: Provided are a computer-implemented system and method for generating real-time store sales data. Sales data is stored regarding items located at multiple retail stores. A user may enter a store with a mobile electronic device. The mobile electronic device accesses sales data pertaining to sales of at least one preselected target item in each of the multiple stores. Generated from the sales data is a sales analysis report in real-time on the mobile electronic device. The sales data of the store accessed in real-time is compared with comparable sales data of other stores.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2016Publication date: November 10, 2016Inventors: Zulfiqar Ali Paracha, Joshua David Osmon, Rachel Marie Pfleging, Brian Casey Harrison, William Robert Piech, Mahesh Sundar Thangaraj, Brian Dewayne Burge, Anthony William Helms, Derric D'souza, Larry Michael Tyler, Michael Andrew Budell Fischer
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Publication number: 20140279241Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are directed to providing product information from disparate sources in an electronic product information retrieval environment. An electronic product search request can be received from a user and product specific information returned in response to the search request can be used by exemplary embodiments to programmatically constructs one or more electronic requests for information from one or more disparate data sources to retrieve inventory information, logistic information, and/or product location information corresponding the products identified in the product specific information. A graphical user interface can be generated by exemplary embodiments providing an integrated and formatted view of the product specific information, the inventory information, and the product location information for display.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.Inventors: Aaron Robert Bartholomew, Alvin Scott Taulbee, Derric D'Souza, William Hogg, Venkata Subba Reddy Bagepalli
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Publication number: 20140207505Abstract: 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 time operational status of those cash registers to a supervisor via a wireless device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2013Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: WAL-MART STORES, INC.Inventors: ALLEN ASHLEY, ANTHONY HELMS, KEVIN HAYES, JOHAN CHRISTOPHE BAER, DERRIC D'SOUZA, JOSH OSMON