Patents by Inventor Shelby Frances Apps
Shelby Frances Apps 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: 11935111Abstract: A consumer is identified at a transaction terminal. A natural-language voice chatbot is initiated for the transaction. The chatbot is configured with store information for a store associated with the terminal and, optionally, with preferences registered to the consumer. A natural language voice dialogue using, at least the store information, is initiated between the chatbot and the consumer while the consumer is at the terminal and during the transaction. The consumer may order store items from the store and pay for the items through the dialogue. In an embodiment, the items ordered are delivered to the terminal where the consumer is located.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: NCR Voyix CorporationInventors: Matthew Robert Burris, Shelby Frances Apps, Andrew Cohen, Gary C. Dalton, Jason Robert Dyer, Jodessiah Sumpter
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Publication number: 20230169286Abstract: A portable scan-assistance device is provided. A mobile device operated by a customer establishes a connection to the scan-assistance device at the start of a shopping trip by tapping the mobile device on the scan-assistance device or by the mobile device scanning a code affixed to the scan-assistance device. A status light on the scan-assistance device illuminates a designated color (such as blue) upon successful connection. A camera/image sensor/barcode reader of the scan-assistance device captures an item code of an item placed in front of the camera and forwards the item code to a mobile shopping application on the user mobile device during the customer's shopping trip. When an item code is successfully captured the status light of the scan-assistance device illuminates a second color (such as green), otherwise the status light of the scan-assistance device illuminates a third color (such as red).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2021Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Rafael Yepez, Shelby Frances Apps
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Publication number: 20230159211Abstract: A beverage crate includes a base and a plurality of walls extending upward from the base. The base together with the plurality of walls define a container interior for receiving beverage containers. By reconfiguring the crate, the storage volume of the container interior is selectively adjustable to accommodate different size beverage containers. Thus, the same crate could be used for different size beverage containers.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2023Publication date: May 25, 2023Inventors: Suzanne Clark Ward, Shelby Frances Apps, Brian Robert Guerry, William P. Apps, Margaret Wilson Garratt
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Patent number: 11618604Abstract: A beverage crate includes a base having opposed end edges and opposed side edges. A pair of end walls extending upward from the end edges of the base. A pair of side walls extend upward from the side edges of the base. Each of the side walls includes an upper band portion connected to the base by inwardly-offset columns. The upper band portions each include at least one upper peak protruding upwardly and at least one complementary recess aligned below the at least one upper peak. The upper band portions each include at least one lower peak protruding downwardly and at least one complementary recess aligned above the at least one lower peak.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2020Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Rehrig Pacific CompanyInventors: Shelby Frances Apps, Suzanne Whitfield Clark, William P. Apps, Crystal Y. Parra, Jon P. Hassell
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Patent number: 11597557Abstract: A beverage crate includes a base and a plurality of walls extending upward from the base. The base together with the plurality of walls define a container interior for receiving beverage containers. By reconfiguring the crate, the storage volume of the container interior is selectively adjustable to accommodate different size beverage containers. Thus, the same crate could be used for different size beverage containers.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2019Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Rehrig Pacific CompanyInventors: Suzanne Clark Ward, Shelby Frances Apps, Brian Robert Guerry, William P. Apps, Margaret Wilson Garratt
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Publication number: 20220250783Abstract: A nestable beverage crate includes a base, side walls and end walls. Each side wall includes a plurality of side columns connecting a side upper band to the base. Each end wall includes a plurality of end columns connected an end upper band to the base. The side upper band and the end upper bands each have a plurality of peaks and valleys and are asymmetric, such that adjacent crates will have peaks aligned with valleys and vice-versa. For purposes of preventing shingling, the effective height of the side upper bands and the end upper bands of these two adjacent side walls is the full distance between the upper edge of the peak and the lower edge of the valley, but the nesting height of the crate is only the height of the upper bands.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2022Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: William P. Apps, Suzanne Clark Ward, Shelby Frances Apps
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Patent number: 11390415Abstract: A nestable beverage crate includes a base, side walls and end walls. Each side wall includes a plurality of side columns connecting a side upper band to the base. Each end wall includes a plurality of end columns connected an end upper band to the base. The side upper band and the end upper bands each have a plurality of peaks and valleys and are asymmetric, such that adjacent crates will have peaks aligned with valleys and vice-versa. For purposes of preventing shingling, the effective height of the side upper bands and the end upper bands these two adjacent side walls is the full distance between the upper edge of the peak and the lower edge of the valley, but the nesting height of the crate is only the height of the upper bands.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Rehrig Pacific CompanyInventors: William P. Apps, Suzanne Clark Ward, Shelby Frances Apps
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Patent number: 11238859Abstract: A natural-language voice chatbot is initiated and a voice session is established between the chatbot and a customer while the customer is operating a vehicle device within a vehicle. A pre-staged order is taken from a customer during the session and the session is suspended until the customer arrives at a store associated with the pre-staged order. A location-based trigger is raised when the customer is detected as being present at a transaction terminal of a store; the session is resumed on the transaction terminal and/or the vehicle device. The pre-stage order is confirmed during the resumed session and payment is obtained from the customer for the order when payment was not already obtained from the customer. The order is sent to a fulfillment station and, in an embodiment, the items associated with the order are delivered to the customer while the customer remains at the terminal.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: NCR CorporationInventors: Matthew Robert Burris, Shelby Frances Apps, Andrew Cohen, Gary C. Dalton, Jason Robert Dyer, Jodessiah Sumpter
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Publication number: 20210249017Abstract: A consumer is identified at a transaction terminal. A natural-language voice chatbot is initiated for the transaction. The chatbot is configured with store information for a store associated with the terminal and, optionally, with preferences registered to the consumer. A natural language voice dialogue using, at least the store information, is initiated between the chatbot and the consumer while the consumer is at the terminal and during the transaction. The consumer may order store items from the store and pay for the items through the dialogue. In an embodiment, the items ordered are delivered to the terminal where the consumer is located.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2021Publication date: August 12, 2021Inventors: Matthew Robert Burris, Shelby Frances Apps, Andrew Cohen, Gary C. Dalton, Jason Robert Dyer, Jodessiah Sumpter
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Patent number: 11069354Abstract: A consumer is identified at a transaction terminal. A natural-language voice chatbot is initiated for the transaction. The chatbot is configured with store information for a store associated with the terminal and, optionally, with preferences registered to the consumer. A natural language voice dialogue using, at least the store information, is initiated between the chatbot and the consumer while the consumer is at the terminal and during the transaction. The consumer may order store items from the store and pay for the items through the dialogue. In an embodiment, the items ordered are delivered to the terminal where the consumer is located.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: NCR CorporationInventors: Matthew Robert Burris, Shelby Frances Apps, Andrew Cohen, Gary C. Dalton, Jason Robert Dyer, Jodessiah Sumpter
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Patent number: 11040828Abstract: Modular transfer units are configured to transport bins or other storage units of standard shapes and sizes between locations. The modular transfer units may be loaded with bins or other storage units having items disposed therein at origins of the items, or at locations where the items are stored, such as fulfillment centers. The modular transfer units may then be mounted to one or more vehicles, such as trailers or rail cars, and transported to another location, where the modular transfer units may be removed from the vehicle, or transferred to another vehicle. The bins or other storage units may be loaded with items that are intended for delivery to a common location. After a bin or storage unit has been unloaded from a modular transfer unit, one or more other bins or storage units may be loaded thereon.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2018Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Suzanne Clark Ward, Shelby Frances Apps, William Patrick Apps, Jessica Fitzgerald, Derick Foster, Philip Andrew King, Daniel Lowther, Kaushal Bharatkumar Mehta, Prasad V. Rao
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Publication number: 20210158354Abstract: Various embodiments herein include at least one of devices, systems, methods, and software of communication and signaling devices. One device embodiment includes a visual signaling output, at least one radio transceiver, and a network interface device. This device further includes a processor and a memory device storing instructions executable by the processor to cause the device to perform data processing activities that may include receiving an identifier via the at least one radio transceiver, outputting a work in progress indicator from the visual signaling output, and transmitting the received identifier via the network interface device to a network service. These data processing activities further include receiving a payment success indicator via the network interface device indicating whether a payment was successfully processed with regard to the received identifier. The data processing activities may then output an indication of the received payment success indicator from the visual signaling output.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2019Publication date: May 27, 2021Inventors: Shelby Frances Apps, Gregory Keith Adams, Kwan Woo Lee, Grant Charles Paton
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Publication number: 20210009304Abstract: A beverage crate includes a base having opposed end edges and opposed side edges. A pair of end walls extending upward from the end edges of the base. A pair of side walls extend upward from the side edges of the base. Each of the side walls includes an upper band portion connected to the base by inwardly-offset columns. The upper band portions each include at least one upper peak protruding upwardly and at least one complementary recess aligned below the at least one upper peak. The upper band portions each include at least one lower peak protruding downwardly and at least one complementary recess aligned above the at least one lower peak.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Inventors: Shelby Frances Apps, Suzanne Whitfield Clark, William P. Apps, Crystal Y. Parra, Jon P. Hassell
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Publication number: 20200410994Abstract: A natural-language voice chatbot is initiated and a voice session is established between the chatbot and a customer while the customer is operating a vehicle device within a vehicle. A pre-staged order is taken from a customer during the session and the session is suspended until the customer arrives at a store associated with the pre-staged order. A location-based trigger is raised when the customer is detected as being present at a transaction terminal of a store; the session is resumed on the transaction terminal and/or the vehicle device. The pre-stage order is confirmed during the resumed session and payment is obtained from the customer for the order when payment was not already obtained from the customer. The order is sent to a fulfillment station and, in an embodiment, the items associated with the order are delivered to the customer while the customer remains at the terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2019Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Matthew Robert Burris, Shelby Frances Apps, Andrew Cohen, Gary C. Dalton, Jason Robert Dyer, Jodessiah Sumpter
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Publication number: 20200380969Abstract: A consumer is identified at a transaction terminal. A natural-language voice chatbot is initiated for the transaction. The chatbot is configured with store information for a store associated with the terminal and, optionally, with preferences registered to the consumer. A natural language voice dialogue using, at least the store information, is initiated between the chatbot and the consumer while the consumer is at the terminal and during the transaction. The consumer may order store items from the store and pay for the items through the dialogue. In an embodiment, the items ordered are delivered to the terminal where the consumer is located.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2019Publication date: December 3, 2020Inventors: Matthew Robert Burris, Shelby Frances Apps, Andrew Cohen, Gary C. Dalton, Jason Robert Dyer, Jodessiah Sumpter
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Patent number: 10703531Abstract: A collapsible crate includes a base and a plurality of walls pivotably connected to the base. Each of the walls is a single piece of molded plastic defining a plurality of planks having the appearance of wooden planks, such as with molded-in grain texture, knots and irregular edges. The irregular edges may provide gaps between adjacent planks to provide ventilation to the crate. The knots may include knot holes to provide additional ventilation. The planks may include horizontal planks extending between vertical planks. The vertical planks and horizontal planks may include an interior wall from the edges of which extend ribs toward the exterior of the crate.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2017Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Rehrig Pacific CompanyInventors: William P. Apps, Jon P. Hassell, Shelby Frances Apps
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Patent number: 10703527Abstract: A beverage crate includes a base having opposed end edges and opposed side edges. A pair of end walls extending upward from the end edges of the base. A pair of side walls extend upward from the side edges of the base. Each of the side walls includes an upper band portion connected to the base by inwardly-offset columns. The upper band portions each include at least one upper peak protruding upwardly and at least one complementary recess aligned below the at least one upper peak. The upper band portions each include at least one lower peak protruding downwardly and at least one complementary recess aligned above the at least one lower peak.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2018Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Rehrig Pacific CompanyInventors: Shelby Frances Apps, Suzanne Whitfield Clark, William P. Apps, Crystal Y. Parra, Jon P. Hassell
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Publication number: 20200130885Abstract: A nestable beverage crate includes a base, side walls and end walls. Each side wall includes a plurality of side columns connecting a side upper band to the base. Each end wall includes a plurality of end columns connected an end upper band to the base. The side upper band and the end upper bands each have a plurality of peaks and valleys and are asymmetric, such that adjacent crates will have peaks aligned with valleys and vice-versa. For purposes of preventing shingling, the effective height of these two adjacent side walls is the full distance between the upper edge of the peak and the lower edge of the valley, but the nesting height of the crate is only the height of the upper bands.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Inventors: William P. Apps, Suzanne Clark Ward, Shelby Frances Apps
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Publication number: 20200108969Abstract: A beverage crate includes a base and a plurality of walls extending upward from the base. The base together with the plurality of walls define a container interior for receiving beverage containers. By reconfiguring the crate, the storage volume of the container interior is selectively adjustable to accommodate different size beverage containers. Thus, the same crate could be used for different size beverage containers.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Inventors: Suzanne Clark Ward, Shelby Frances Apps, Brian Robert Guerry, William P. Apps, Margaret Wilson Garratt
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Patent number: D869164Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2019Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Rehrig Pacific CompanyInventors: William P. Apps, Suzanne Whitfield Clark, Shelby Frances Apps