Patents by Inventor Jeremy Tingler
Jeremy Tingler 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: 11978014Abstract: Examples provide a tag manager component that identifies a plurality of stationary RFID tags located within a three-dimensional space outside an item display area based on an analysis of RFID tag data associated with the plurality of RFID tag readers. A zone detection component analyzes item data associated with a plurality of items corresponding to the plurality of stationary RFID tags and location data associated with the three-dimensional space using a set of per-item criteria. The set of per-item criteria includes a per-item minimum threshold number of items per unit of three-dimensional space and/or a minimum threshold stationary time-period. A verification component analyzes sensor data and/or transaction data to verify whether the three-dimensional space is a termination zone. If the three-dimensional space is a termination zone, an inventory manager component removes the plurality of items from perpetual inventory.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Jeremy Tingler, Steven Lewis
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Publication number: 20220129838Abstract: Examples provide a tag manager component that identifies a plurality of stationary RFID tags located within a three-dimensional space outside an item display area based on an analysis of RFID tag data associated with the plurality of RFID tag readers. A zone detection component analyzes item data associated with a plurality of items corresponding to the plurality of stationary RFID tags and location data associated with the three-dimensional space using a set of per-item criteria. The set of per-item criteria includes a per-item minimum threshold number of items per unit of three-dimensional space and/or a minimum threshold stationary time-period. A verification component analyzes sensor data and/or transaction data to verify whether the three-dimensional space is a termination zone. If the three-dimensional space is a termination zone, an inventory manager component removes the plurality of items from perpetual inventory.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2022Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventors: Jeremy Tingler, Steven Lewis
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Patent number: 11232396Abstract: Examples provide a tag manager component that identifies a plurality of stationary RFID tags located within a three-dimensional space outside an item display area based on an analysis of RFID tag data associated with the plurality of RFID tag readers. A zone detection component analyzes item data associated with a plurality of items corresponding to the plurality of stationary RFID tags and location data associated with the three-dimensional space using a set of per-item criteria. The set of per-item criteria includes a per-item minimum threshold number of items per unit of three-dimensional space and/or a minimum threshold stationary time-period. A verification component analyzes sensor data and/or transaction data to verify whether the three-dimensional space is a termination zone. If the three-dimensional space is a termination zone, an inventory manager component removes the plurality of items from perpetual inventory.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Jeremy Tingler, Steven Lewis
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Patent number: 10839172Abstract: An electronic shelf label system comprising a plurality of electronic shelf labels is provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Jeremy Tingler, Nicholaus Adam Jones, Alvin Scott Taulbee, Thomas E. Stiefel
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Patent number: 10607184Abstract: A method and a system for determining an amount of material remaining in a spool are provided herein. The system includes a radiofrequency identification (RFID) reader that is configured to read an RFID tag disposed at an end of a core of the spool. The RFID reader is provided on or in a vicinity of a support surface configured to hold at least a portion of the material. The system further includes a computer system in communication with the RFID reader, the computer system being configured to compute an amount of remaining material in the spool based on a thickness of the material and based on a number of revolutions of the spool. The number of revolutions is determined by a number of times the RFID tag on the spool comes in a reading vicinity of the RFID reader.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLCInventors: Alvin S. Taulbee, Nicholaus A. Jones, Jeremy Tingler
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Publication number: 20200035101Abstract: A parking space allocation system comprises a special-purpose allocation computer that communicates with at least one electronic sensor to identify a state of a plurality of parking spaces, including a determination whether the parking spaces are occupied or unoccupied and that automatically modifies an unoccupied parking space to be visually identifiable for authorized use by a vehicle or vehicle occupant; and a special-purpose authorization computer that authenticates the vehicle or vehicle occupant for the authorized use of the unoccupied parking space by the vehicle. The special-purpose allocation computer further allocates the unoccupied parking space to the authenticated vehicle or vehicle occupant according to a predetermined criterion that requires the unoccupied parking space to be in proximity to or a predetermined distance from a destination of interest by the vehicle occupant.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Inventors: Cristy Crane Brooks, Greg A. Bryan, Benjamin D. Enssle, David Blair Brightwell, Jeffrey Kerbs, Jesse Lee Eaton, Jeremy Tingler, Steven Lewis
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Publication number: 20190286860Abstract: An electronic shelf label system comprising a plurality of electronic shelf labels is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2019Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventors: Jeremy Tingler, Nicholaus Adam Jones, Alvin Scott Taulbee, Thomas E. Stiefel
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Publication number: 20190272497Abstract: Examples provide a tag manager component that identifies a plurality of stationary RFID tags located within a three-dimensional space outside an item display area based on an analysis of RFID tag data associated with the plurality of RFID tag readers. A zone detection component analyzes item data associated with a plurality of items corresponding to the plurality of stationary RFID tags and location data associated with the three-dimensional space using a set of per-item criteria. The set of per-item criteria includes a per-item minimum threshold number of items per unit of three-dimensional space and/or a minimum threshold stationary time-period. A verification component analyzes sensor data and/or transaction data to verify whether the three-dimensional space is a termination zone. If the three-dimensional space is a termination zone, an inventory manager component removes the plurality of items from perpetual inventory.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2019Publication date: September 5, 2019Inventors: Jeremy Tingler, Steven Lewis
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Patent number: 10311258Abstract: An electronic shelf label system comprising a plurality of electronic shelf labels is provided. A central computing system transmits data transmissions to the plurality of electronic shelf labels at a first power level. A candidate electronic shelf label from the plurality of electronic shelf labels periodically activate from a sleep mode to identify whether there is an existing master electronic shelf label from the plurality of electronic shelf labels. The candidate electronic shelf label becomes a new master electronic shelf label based on a set of specified conditions to transmit programming instructions received from the central computing system to one or more electronic shelf labels.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2018Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Jeremy Tingler, Nicholaus Adam Jones, Alvin Scott Taulbee, Thomas E. Stiefel
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Publication number: 20180357451Abstract: An electronic shelf label system comprising a plurality of electronic shelf labels is provided. A central computing system transmits data transmissions to the plurality of electronic shelf labels at a first power level. A candidate electronic shelf label from the plurality of electronic shelf labels periodically activate from a sleep mode to identify whether there is an existing master electronic shelf label from the plurality of electronic shelf labels. The candidate electronic shelf label becomes a new master electronic shelf label based on a set of specified conditions to transmit programming instructions received from the central computing system to one or more electronic shelf labels.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2018Publication date: December 13, 2018Inventors: Jeremy Tingler, Nicholaus Adam Jones, Alvin Scott Taulbee, Thomas E. Stiefel
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Publication number: 20180300674Abstract: A method and a system for determining an amount of material remaining in a spool are provided herein. The system includes a radiofrequency identification (RFID) reader that is configured to read an RFID tag disposed at an end of a core of the spool. The RFID reader is provided on or in a vicinity of a support surface configured to hold at least a portion of the material. The system further includes a computer system in communication with the RFID reader, the computer system being configured to compute an amount of remaining material in the spool based on a thickness of the material and based on a number of revolutions of the spool. The number of revolutions is determined by a number of times the RFID tag on the spool comes in a reading vicinity of the RFID reader.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2018Publication date: October 18, 2018Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Alvin S. Taulbee, Nicholaus A. Jones, Jeremy Tingler
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Publication number: 20180268446Abstract: Embodiments relate to customer assistance request systems and methods. A customer assistance request system generally includes at least one customer assistance kiosk including a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag, an RFID reader and a communication system. The RFID reader is configured to read the RFID tag number when a customer assistance kiosk is in an open configuration and the RFID tag is exposed. The communication system is configured to receive the read RFID tag number and issue a notification including the location of the at least one customer assistance kiosk.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Nicholaus A. Jones, Alvin Scott Taulbee, Jeremy Tingler
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Publication number: 20180257228Abstract: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for managing an autonomous robot in a retail environment. A system for managing an autonomous robot in a retail environment generally includes an external vendor robot task request system, a retailer robot task scheduling system, and an autonomous robot located in the retail environment. The retailer robot task scheduling system receives an external vendor robot task request from the external vendor robot task request system, combines the external vendor robot task request and an internal retailer-defined task into a robot task list, and communicates the robot task list to the autonomous robot.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2018Publication date: September 13, 2018Inventors: Jeremy Tingler, Alvin Scott Taulbee, Steven Lewis
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Publication number: 20170286876Abstract: Methodologies, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for generating routes for relocating objects. A computational device retrieves from a database object relocation data and relocation capacity data for each of a plurality of objects identified by an electronic scanning device at a first geographical location. The objects at the first geographical location are intended for relocation, and the object relocation data indicates possible geographical locations for receiving each of the objects. The relocation capacity data indicates an available capacity for each of the possible geographical locations. The computational device computes a relocation destination for each of those objects based on the relocation capacity data of each of the possible geographical locations.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2017Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Jeremy Tingler, David Scot Harlow, Alvin Scott Taulbee
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Publication number: 20170180012Abstract: Methodologies, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for generating automotive work orders. An electronic scanning device can receive vehicle identification data corresponding to a user, and a server can associate the identification information with a user's account. The server can retrieve customized data relating to the user's vehicle service history and service preferences. The server can automatically generate a work order to initiate automotive services based on the vehicle service data saved in the user's account.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2016Publication date: June 22, 2017Inventors: Jeremy Tingler, Alvin Scott Taulbee, Kenneth Dewayne Clark
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Publication number: 20170178257Abstract: Methodologies, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for generating fuel authorization commands. An electronic scanning device can receive identification data corresponding to a user, and a server can associate the identification information with a user's account. The server can retrieve customized data indicating a specified monetary value of fuel to be purchased by the user. The user can access the account and set a desired monetary value and other customized automotive data. The server can request authorization of the specified monetary value and, if authorization is received, generate and transmit a fuel authorization command to a service station fuel pump to allow the user to dispense fuel.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2016Publication date: June 22, 2017Inventors: Jeremy Tingler, Alvin Scott Taulbee, Kenneth Dewayne Clark