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).

  • Patent number: 11587191
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Derric D'Souza, Danika Alleen Goecke
  • Publication number: 20220101469
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Derric D'Souza, Danika Alleen Goecke
  • Patent number: 11227241
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Allen Ashley, Anthony William Helms, Kevin Hayes, Johan Christophe Baer, Derric D'souza, Joshua David Osmon
  • Publication number: 20200051092
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Derric D'Souza, Precious N. Baugh, Rachel A. D'Souza, Greg L. Sanders, Enoch Acheampong, Michael Williams, Michael Andrew Budell Fischer
  • Publication number: 20180189711
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Allen Ashley, Anthony William Helms, Kevin Hayes, Johan Christophe Baer, Derric D'souza, Joshua David Osmon
  • Patent number: 9928471
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
    Inventors: Allen Ashley, Anthony Helms, Kevin Hayes, Johan Christophe Baer, Derric D'Souza, Josh Osmon
  • Publication number: 20170076240
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20160328725
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20140279241
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Robert Bartholomew, Alvin Scott Taulbee, Derric D'Souza, William Hogg, Venkata Subba Reddy Bagepalli
  • Publication number: 20140207505
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: WAL-MART STORES, INC.
    Inventors: ALLEN ASHLEY, ANTHONY HELMS, KEVIN HAYES, JOHAN CHRISTOPHE BAER, DERRIC D'SOUZA, JOSH OSMON