Patents by Inventor Vivek K. Gopalani

Vivek K. Gopalani 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).

  • Order fulfillment with community-based delivery
    Patent number: 11907893
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for order fulfillment by community delivery. A method for product delivery comprises detecting a presence of a user device of a store customer associated with a customer profile at a location associated with a store location based on a location sensor, identifying a delivery community associated with the customer profile from a plurality of delivery communities in the community database, identifying available community delivery orders associated with other members of the delivery community in an order database, instructing a pickup order fulfillment system to prepare the one or more community delivery orders for pickup by the store customer, and providing delivery instructions for the one or more community delivery orders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Anuranjan Yadav, Himanshu Jha, Rahul Kumar, Vivek K. Gopalani
  • ORDER FULFILLMENT WITH COMMUNITY-BASED DELIVERY
    Publication number: 20210264358
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for order fulfillment by community delivery. A method for product delivery comprises detecting a presence of a user device of a store customer associated with a customer profile at a location associated with a store location based on a location sensor, identifying a delivery community associated with the customer profile from a plurality of delivery communities in the community database, identifying available community delivery orders associated with other members of the delivery community in an order database, instructing a pickup order fulfillment system to prepare the one or more community delivery orders for pickup by the store customer, and providing delivery instructions for the one or more community delivery orders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Anuranjan Yadav, Himanshu Jha, Rahul Kumar, Vivek K. Gopalani