Patents Assigned to Walmart Apollo, LLC
  • Patent number: 11905058
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for supplying one or more goods to a physical store location. The goods may be received at a distribution center (DC). At the DC, the goods may be decanted from their shipping containers into one or more sub-totes, which are contained within one or more product totes. The sub-totes may be transferred from the one or more product totes to one or more order totes based on a velocity of movement of the plurality of goods at the physical store location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: John G. Lert, Jr., William J. Fosnight
  • Patent number: 11896148
    Abstract: A magnetic shelving fence that provides stabilization of retail products on merchandised shelving during shelving relocation. The includes an elongate multi-surfaced structure and one or more magnets. The elongate structure includes a vertical front plate, a horizontal mount plate, and an edge surround portion. The vertical front plate provides a planar barrier to merchandized product movement. The horizontal mount plate is disposed in a generally perpendicular orientation with respect to the vertical front plate. The edge surround portion connects the lower edge of the front plate to the horizontal mount plate and defines a channel shaped to surround a front edge of shelving. The magnets of the magnetic shelving fence are fixedly coupled to the horizontal mount plate. Further, the magnets are oriented to secure the elongate multi-surfaced structure with a bottom face of metal shelving via temporary and non-destructive attachment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventor: Gabriel Antillon
  • Patent number: 11900386
    Abstract: This application relates to apparatus and methods for identifying fraudulent payment transfers. In some examples, a computing device determines payment transfer initiation features, and payment transfer reception features, based on previous payment transfer data. The computing device may train a machine learning fraud detection model with the payment transfer initiation features, and may train a machine learning fraud detection model with the payment transfer reception features. Once trained, the computing device may employ the machine learning fraud detection models to identify fraudulent payment transfers. For example, the computing device may determine whether a payment transfer is fraudulent when the payment transfer is initiated. Assuming the payment transfer is allowed, the computing device may determine whether the payment transfer is fraudulent when the payment is being received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Linhong Kang, Arthi Vijayakumar, YiYi Zeng, Zhiping Tang, Uday Akella, Mayra Rocio Harmon, Charlie Berry, Nathan Olds, John Fields, Kristin Danielle Piper
  • Patent number: 11899655
    Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform: storing one or more notifications in a data store; receiving a new notification; determining a respective number of notifications in each respective segment of a plurality of approximately equal segments; using the respective number of notifications in each respective segment of the plurality of approximately equal segments to determine a number of the one or more notifications; when the number of the one or more notifications is equal to or greater than a maximum number of notifications, removing at least one notification of the one or more notifications; and before or after removing the at least one notification, storing the new notification in the data store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Sandeep Malik, Chintan Pankajkumar Shah
  • Patent number: 11899792
    Abstract: Examples provide a single-command menu option for initiating security scanning of source code without user interaction with the security scan component performing the security scan. The single-command menu option can include a single-click menu option in a graphical user interface, a command-line utility or a web interface for performing web service calls to the security scanning service(s). A user selects source code for scanning. A zip file is created for the selected source code. The zip file is placed in a target directory or scan queue for upload to the security scan component. A user ID appended to the source code is utilized to return a summary report of the scan results to the user without user credentials or login to the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Oscar Blass, Derrick Gene Wright, Austin Chase Lucas
  • Patent number: 11900313
    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 certain acts. The acts can include determining an estimated arrival time of a user at a physical store. The acts also can include generating an estimated wait time using a machine learning model and based on input data comprising the estimated arrival time and dynamic wait time data for the physical store. The acts additionally can include sending the estimated wait time to at least one of the physical store or a mobile device of the user. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Shengyang Zhang, Mingang Fu, Madhavan Kandhadai Vasantham
  • Publication number: 20240046317
    Abstract: 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 including: (1) determining, by a predictive algorithm via a machine learning model, one or more predicted bids for one or more keywords in one or more campaigns; (2) adjusting the one or more predicted bids for the one or more keywords in the one or more campaigns; (3) pacing the one or more predicted bids for the one or more keywords by multiplying the one or more predicted bids by a pacing factor; iteratively adding real-time data to a training data set for the predictive algorithm; and iterating (1)-(3) at one or more periodic intervals as the real-time data is added to the training data set. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Xuan Cao, Georgios Rovatsos, Wei Shen
  • Patent number: 11893319
    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 certain acts. The acts can include obtaining a route for delivering one or more orders in a tri-temp trailer from a distribution center to physical stores in a sequence of stops. The route can have an associated assignment of stack groups comprising stacks of pallets. The acts also can include determining a load design for the stacks in the tri-temp trailer based on the sequence of the stops in the route, such that unloading each of the stacks is minimized when the tri-temp trailer delivers the orders to the physical stores. The acts additionally can include outputting the load design to cause the stacks to be loaded in the tri-temp trailer according to the load design for delivery to the physical stores in the sequence of stops. The load design can specify a respective floor spot assignment for each of the stacks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Jing Huang, Minghui Liu, Mingang Fu, Amritayan Nayak
  • Patent number: 11893991
    Abstract: Systems and methods for e-commerce systems using natural language understanding are described. A computing device is configured receive a user utterance including at least one identified semantic component and at least one missing semantic component and generate a context stack including a set of context entries. Each of the context entries includes a root intent element, an entity list element, and a dialogue stack and each context entry in the set of context entries is associated with one of a user utterance or a system utterance. The computing device is further configured to review at least one context entry in the set of context entries to locate the at least one missing semantic element within the dialogue stack and generate an intent flow execution request including the at least one semantic element from the first speech data and the missing semantic element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Snehasish Mukherjee, Shankara Bhargava Subramanya
  • Patent number: 11893618
    Abstract: This application relates to apparatus and methods for automatically determining and providing digital recommendations including discounted items with associated savings. In some examples, a computing device obtains savings data including savings items. In response to obtaining the savings data, the computing device obtains a plurality of clusters. Each cluster of the plurality of clusters includes a set of product types. The computing device obtains user data associated with a user, and based on the savings data and the plurality of clusters, determines a set of initial items for recommendation. The set of initial items includes a subset of the savings items. The computing device also determines final recommendation items for the user based on the set of initial items and the user data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Vivek Vaidyanathan, Ashish Ranjan, Yogananth Mahalingam, Sushant Kumar, Kannan Achan
  • Patent number: 11893979
    Abstract: Systems and methods for e-commerce systems using natural language understanding are described. A computing device is configured receive a user utterance and identify at least one semantic element within the user utterance. An intent associated with the at least one semantic element is identified and an intent flow associated with the identified intent is executed. The intent flow includes a set of tasks executed in a predetermined order. A system utterance is generated by instantiating a response template selected from a plurality of response templates associated with the executed intent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Snehasish Mukherjee, Shankara Bhargava Subramanya
  • Patent number: 11893072
    Abstract: This application relates to apparatus and methods for automatically servicing item data requests in data management systems, such as in retail management systems. The apparatus and methods employ a throttling technique to service data requests from one or more entities. In some examples, a computing device initializes assigns a counter for each entity, and initializes each counter with an initial value. The computing device also occasionally (e.g., periodically) resets each counter to the initial value. The computing device may receive a data request from one of the entities, and determines whether the counter corresponding to the entity identifies a count that is beyond a threshold. If the counter identifies a count beyond the threshold, the computing device adjusts the counter, and processes the data request. If the counter does not identify a count beyond the threshold, the computing device responds to the entity with an error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Tamandeep Kaur, Rahul Raghavan, Karthik Chowdavarapu, Sitansu Sekhar Pal, Murabbat Rifaquat Hussain, Rajanikanth Beesabathini, Alok Kumar Singh
  • Patent number: 11893530
    Abstract: Systems, method and computer readable medium are provided for automated storage and retrieval. User authentication information is received via a user interface for a dynamic storage and retrieval device. The user identity is verified based upon the authentication information and previously stored authentication data. Order information is retrieved for an order associated with the user following the verifying of user identity, the order information indicating one or more locations for items associated with the order. Instructions are transmitted to initiate a physical opening of at least one of the dynamic storage and retrieval device and at least one static storage location to enable the user to retrieve at least one item of the order, the static storage location including a controller controlling a locking mechanism and communicatively coupled to the dynamic storage and retrieval device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Edward Durkee, Stuart William Clark, Colin Holmes, Jason Shaffer, Mark Ibbotson, John Suarez
  • Publication number: 20240037493
    Abstract: A method including generating, by separate instances of a multi-threaded worker system, respective lists of zip codes that fulfillment nodes in a fulfillment network can deliver to via ground shipping within a first shipping time period, based at least in part on preliminary eligibility information and an evaluation of current factors. The method also can include transforming, with an aggregator system, the respective lists of zip codes to generate a mapping from each zip code in the respective lists of zip codes to a respective list of the fulfillment nodes that can deliver via ground shipping to each zip code within the first shipping time period. The method additionally can include receiving a request comprising an input zip code and an input shipping time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Sony Mangalassery Gregory, Vimal Mohan Kothanath, Sindiri Sai Kumar, Shantanu Preetam, Yuvaraj MukariKrishnamoorthy, Yatin Gupta, Sandip Mahanta, Puneet Kala, Tanvi Gupta, Rishi Saraf
  • Publication number: 20240039862
    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 including: authenticating at least one source of online data transmissions that matches a respective computing device of a user; batching the online data transmissions into one or more micro-batches; transmitting the one or more micro-batches to one or more respective backend services; receiving respective responses from the one or more respective backend services in response to each one of the one or more micro-batches; and performing each respective task of one or more tasks associated with the respective responses. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Shiva Krishna Potu, Venkateswararao Chennamsetty, Dhruv Rajnikant Sojitra, Madhavan Kandhadai Vasantham
  • Patent number: 11887172
    Abstract: 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 based on the customer data and the device data, and applies one or more machine learning models to the generated features to generate a trust score. The trust score is indicative of how likely a transaction is to be fraudulent. In some examples, the transaction is not allowed if the trust score is beyond a threshold. In some examples, the computing device trains the machine learning models based on customer data and device data for a plurality of customers and devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Gnanapriya Venkatasubramaniam, Shivee Singh
  • Patent number: 11887023
    Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform functions comprising: generating one or more feature vectors for a user, the one or more feature vectors at least comprising transaction-based features and slot-based features; generating, using a machine learning architecture, a repurchase prediction for the user based, at least in part, on the one or more feature vectors; generating, using the machine learning architecture, a time slot prediction for the user based, at least in part, on the one or more feature vectors, the time slot prediction predicting a time slot desired by the user for an upcoming transaction; and executing a reservation function that facilitates reserving of the time slot for the user. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Sonal Bathe, Rahul Sridhar, Sinduja Subramaniam, Evren Korpeoglu, Kannan Achan
  • Publication number: 20240029845
    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 operations comprising: displaying, one or more instructions on a user interface of a mobile device to instruct a user to capture each respective image of a prescription label; determining, using contrast, a location of each respective image in the set of images that is associated with the respective different portions of the prescription label on the medication package; reconstructing each of the respective different portions of the prescription label on the medication package as a flattened reconstruction of the respective different portions of the prescription label; and providing for display on the user interface a reconstructed prescription label. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Walter R. Smith, Chi-Kai Chien, Christian Hagel-Sorensen, Frédéric Médous, Peyman Oreizy, Jonathan Schwartz, Brittany Staten, Paul Teixeira
  • Patent number: 11878862
    Abstract: There is provided a conveyor assembly for sorting merchandise items. In one form, the conveyor assembly includes: a merchandise identification module; sortation modules each comprising a multi-directional sorting portion with two sets of rollers, a first wing including a third set of rollers, a second wing including a fourth set of rollers, and a controller configured to receive an IP address; a first, disassembled state of the sortation modules; a second, assembled state of the sortation modules; a merchandise database; and a control circuit configured to receive identifying information about an unsorted merchandise item, assign a unique IP address to each sortation module corresponding to the position of the sortation module, determine a sortation destination for the unsorted merchandise item, determine the sortation module corresponding to the sortation destination; and instruct the controller of the corresponding sortation module to divert the unsorted merchandise item to the sortation destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Jason D. Bellar, William Mark Propes
  • Patent number: D1014159
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Locke, Ryan Crozier, Alexander Micheal Alvarado, Leslie Anne Prince