Patents Assigned to Walmart Apollo, LLC
  • Patent number: 12770172
    Abstract: A data generation system can include a computing device that is configured to receive a request to generate a training dataset for an attribute and identify a set of item identifiers from an item database based on an engagement indication. The computing device is further configured to, for each item identifier of the set of item identifiers, obtain a query list including queries resulting in an engagement between the corresponding item identifier and a user and, in response to a portion of queries of the query list including the attribute being above a threshold, assign the corresponding item identifier to the training dataset for the attribute. The computing device is also configured to store the training dataset for the attribute in a training dataset database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2026
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Adithya Rajan, Prateek Verma, Yilei Zhan, Nidhin Tom Pattaniyil, Zheng Yan
  • Patent number: 12769798
    Abstract: Some embodiments relate to controlling digital communications. An example implementation may cause an execution of a trained first model applied to historic features of groupings of items and obtaining a set of carousel identifiers; obtain session context corresponding to a first set of items during a current network session; perform a similarity search in the collection of the sets of carousel identifiers, and identify a first set of carousel identifiers having a threshold relationship with the session context; determine a ranking of the first set of carousel identifiers and identify a first carousel identifier having an estimated highest ranked association with the network session; and control the data communications transceiver to transmit carousel content data in controlling the user computing device to render the carousel content data comprising the first carousel identifier consistent with the carousel interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2025
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2026
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Sujit Shambuling Horakeri, Chittaranjan Tripathy, Harshal Tripathi, Tushar Agrawal
  • Patent number: 12769781
    Abstract: Example implementations relate to automatically identifying matching data entities. A determination request is received and for each of a first data entity and a second data entity, a sequence of demarcated attributes is generated. A similarity score is generated, using a trained classification model, between the first data entity and the second data entity that accounts for feature interactions between the first data entity and the second data entity. The trained classification model receives the demarcated attributes for each of the first data entity and the second data entity as inputs, and is trained using a dataset of annotated pairs of data entities. Weights in the trained classification model are determined based on a customizable loss function. In accordance with a determination that the similarity score is greater than a predetermined threshold, an indication that the first data entity matches the second data entity is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2026
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Deep Narain Singh, Suresh Visvanathan, Prajwal Chandrashekaraiah, Kenny Lov
  • Patent number: 12770165
    Abstract: Systems and methods for predicting advertising related inventory and opportunity for advertising campaigns based on metadata and dimensionality reduction are disclosed. In some embodiments, a disclosed method includes: receiving, from a computing device, a prediction request associated with an advertising campaign; determining a metadata set associated with the advertising campaign; generating, based on a machine learning model, an embedding for the metadata set; determining, based on the embedding, at least one embedding associated with at least one advertising opportunity data; generating predicted advertising opportunity data for the advertising campaign based on the at least one advertising opportunity data; and transmitting the predicted advertising opportunity data to the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2026
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Koustav Nandi, Nitish Varshney, Girish Sathyanarayana, Kunal Kishore
  • Patent number: 12762511
    Abstract: In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to processing captured images. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for processing captured images of objects at a product storage facility including a trained machine learning model; and a control circuit. The control circuit may identify a product identifier associated with an object in a captured image; generate predicted product identifiers associated with the object in the captured image based on text identified from the object in the captured image; aggregate the predicted product identifiers; determine a feature of the objects associated with the aggregated predicted product identifiers; determine one or more confusing product identifiers based on a determination of the aggregated predicted product identifiers being associated with the feature; and update a dataset with at least one of the one or more confusing product identifiers and images associated with the one or more confusing product identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2026
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Abhinav Pachauri, Raghava Balusu, Avinash M. Jade, Lingfeng Zhang, Srinivas Muktevi, Amit Jhunjhunwala, Zhaoliang Duan
  • Patent number: 12762534
    Abstract: Provided are check-in to checkout systems and methods. The system includes a point of sale, a display, a mobile device, and a backend system. When the POS starts a transaction, such as, but not limited to scanning an item, the POS generates a transaction/basket identification. In response to starting the transaction, the POS sends the transaction/basket ID to the display in the form of a QR code or one-dimensional barcode. The mobile device operating a mobile application scans and captures the displayed code and reports to the backend systems. The backend systems then send a check-in event, which includes gathered data by the backend systems, to the POS and the POS acknowledges receipt of the message. At this point, a notification may be sent to the mobile application that the check-in was successful and a link is established for flow of information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2026
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Bradley Joseph Kieffer, Mark Matthews, Eytan Daniyalzade, Charles David Berry, Prasanna Rajendran, David Martin Nelms, Daniel Eckert
  • Patent number: 12762599
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automatically generating electronic communications including relevant content elements are disclosed. A request to generate an electronic communication including a user identifier and a prior interaction is received. A hybrid sequential model is implemented to generate a set of hybrid sequential element recommendations selected from a catalog of items. The hybrid sequential model includes a sequential sub-model to select a set of sequential elements and a re-ranking sub-model to re-rank the sequential elements to generate the hybrid sequential elements. An affinity model is implemented to generate affinity element recommendations and a set of relevant content elements including at least one of the set of hybrid sequential element recommendations and at least one of the set of affinity element recommendations is generated. The electronic communication is generated including the set of relevant content elements and is transmitted to a user device associated with the user identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2026
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Sayan Putatunda, Nisha Choudhary, Girish Thiruvenkadam, Rahul Ghosh, Swetha Neralur Ashwathnarayana, Suman Kumar
  • Patent number: 12756797
    Abstract: In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to detecting a mis-scan of an item. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for detecting a mis-scan of an item for purchase comprising a checkout station; a first staging location; a second staging location; a first area of interest at the checkout station; a second area of interest at the checkout station; a camera; and a control circuit configured to: receive an identifier of a first item; detect a hand of a user purchasing the first item, the first item, and a scanner on a first image captured by the camera; in response to the detection of the hand, the first item, and the scanner, initiate detection of mis-scan items during a checkout process; determine that a payment transaction has been received; and stop the detection of mis-scan items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2026
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Dhanashree Palande, Mirko A. Arnold, Jason Nichols, Niyati Lalit Shah, Jadran Sirotkovic, Peter M. Terlecky
  • Patent number: 12749101
    Abstract: A system comprising 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: receiving stock images comprising an anchor garment; automatically identifying the anchor garment and complementary garments within the stock images; selecting an image of the stock images in which a mask area of a first complementary garment of the complementary garments as a ratio of an area of the anchor garment is largest over other complementary garments of the complementary garments; performing an image search, using the image, in an item catalog for similar garments to the first complementary garment; and displaying, on a user interface, an avatar wearing the anchor garment and at least one of the similar garments. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2026
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Evgeni Pinkovich, Gal Sadeh-Kenigsfield, Nir Appleboim, Barak Eliyahu Ben Dayan, Yotam Michael
  • Patent number: 12749104
    Abstract: Examples provide conversational item search refinement using multi-facet filtering of items in a catalog. A multi-facet filter manager extracts facets and actions corresponding to the facets from a user utterance. The facet-actions include an entity-role and one or more filter actions associated with the facets. A facet-action includes filter actions such as exact, exclude, greater than, less than, etc. Multi-facet filters corresponding to the facet-actions are applied to a plurality of items in the catalog. The candidate items remaining after filtering are scored. The scores indicate relevance of each candidate item. One or more of the candidate items with the highest scores are selected. The selected items are added to search results which are returned to the user in response to the conversational search query. The multi-facet filter manager enables faster and more accurate search results using fewer conversational turns for reduced system resource usage and improved user efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2026
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Raghavendra Subramanya, Praneeth Gubbala, Xuan Zhang, Shilpa Gopinath, Kamalpreet Singh, Dong Nguyen, Harish Bondalapati, Bahula Bosetti, Sneha Oladhri, Nishant Kumar Mishra, Lakshya Khandelwal, Navesh Garg
  • Patent number: 12748974
    Abstract: Systems and methods for hybrid optimization of training ranking models is disclosed. A training dataset including a plurality of anchor items, a plurality of recommended item sets, and ground truth data is obtained from a database. A base machine learning model including a step function configured to determine a relevance score is iteratively trained to generate a trained ranking model. The plurality of anchor items and the plurality of recommended item sets are provided as an input to the base machine learning model and the ground truth is provided as a target output. The step function is trained using an adaptive step size according to a first order Barzilai-Borwein (BB) method and a line search method. The trained ranking model is stored in non-transitory memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2026
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Reza Yousefi Maragheh, Ramin Giahi, Aysenur Inan, Hyun Duk Cho, Kaushiki Nag, Sushant Kumar, Kannan Achan
  • Patent number: 12749477
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide retail product ordering systems comprising: a user computing device comprising an application executed by a device control circuit to: receive an audible utterance; controls a product identifier application interface to: apply a tokenizer model and obtain a set of individual search words; apply a series of featurizer models to the search words to generate features; and apply a classifier and extractor model based on the features and generate multiple requested product entities each comprising a respective sub-set of the position labeled product terms; wherein the device control circuit is further configured to access a purchase history database, confirm an accuracy of each of requested product entities relative to a purchase history, generate a listing of determined product identifiers corresponding to the confirmed set of the multiple requested product entities, and control a display system of the user computing device to render the listing of determined product identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2026
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Praneeth Gubbala, Xuan Zhang, Bahula Bosetti, Priya Ashok Kumar Choudhary, Dong T. Nguyen, Shivraj V. Kodak, William Craig Robinson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12749107
    Abstract: 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 operations: training, using labeled training data and a list of substitutes for an item, a machine learning algorithm; determining, using the machine learning algorithm, as trained, a respective similarity score for each substitute of the list of substitutes; ranking each substitute of the list of substitutes based on its respective similarity score; and re-training the machine learning algorithm based on at least the labeled training data and a highest ranked substitute of the list of substitutes. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2026
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Kamiya Motwani, Sushant Kumar, Kannan Achan, Vidya Sagar Kalidindi, Rahul Ramkumar, Derrick Lagomarsino
  • Patent number: 12743673
    Abstract: A computerized method trains an inventory anomaly prediction model and uses the model to predict and address inventory anomalies. Daily inventory data associated with an inventory storage location is obtained from an inventory data store and provided to a pretrained anomaly prediction model as input. The anomaly prediction model generates an anomaly indicator associated with an item type in the obtained inventory data. Corrective action is then caused to be performed in association with the item type and based on the anomaly indicator, whereby inaccuracy of an inventory count of the item type in the inventory data store is corrected. Further, in some examples, the anomaly prediction model is trained using machine learning techniques and training data that is generated and labeled using a tuned outlier detection model. Thus, the method enables the anomaly prediction model to be efficiently trained for accuracy using the described two-stage training process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2026
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Jinyang Zhou, Karun Dhingra, Raisa Mukadam
  • Patent number: D1150255
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2026
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventor: George Philip
  • Patent number: D1150822
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2026
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventor: Salvo Farina
  • Patent number: D1153268
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2026
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2026
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: David W. Sica, Jeffrey Lui, Pin Jui Huang, Suk Wai Theda Chong
  • Patent number: D1155135
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2026
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Brittany N. Leek, Ankoor-Anish K. Hazari, Andrew J. Grignon, Darrell Whitelaw, Matthew S. Brown, William J. Yergin, Stephen S. Hadinger
  • Patent number: D1155560
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2026
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Emily Dong, Arka Sinha, Olivia Rose Koivisto, Grecia Andreina Quintero Medina
  • Patent number: D1155596
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2026
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Gaurav Chadha, Nicole Arielle Roberts