AUTOMATED ROBOTIC PRE-STAGING OF PRIORITIZED PICK UP ORDERS FOR NON-NOTIFYING CUSTOMERS OF A RETAIL STORE

Patent №

US 11,699,114

Granted

2023-07-11

Filed 2021

Owner

WALMART APOLLO, LLC

AI components

4

vision · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

17392468

Examples provide a system and method for managing non-notifying customer orders for pickup. An order manager component identifies orders received from customers that typically do not provide advance notification prior to arrival at an order pickup location. A prioritization component assigns a priority to each order based on a per-customer confidence level. Customers providing notification and new customers receive the highest priority. Non-notifying customers having consistent pickup times associated with a threshold minimum number of previous orders receive a second highest priority. Non-notifying customers having inconsistent pickup arrival times and/or fewer than the threshold number of previous orders receive lower priority. A routing schedule is generated for pre-staging the orders based on the assigned priorities, pre-staging area capacity, and/or bot capacity. Totes are moved to the prestaging area based on instructions provided in the routing schedule.

VisionKnowledge representationPlanningAI hardwareG06Q 10/06313B65G 1/137G06N 5/04G06Q 10/06311G06Q 10/06315G06Q 10/06317G06Q 10/087G06Q 30/0202+2 more

AI classification

Planning0.97
AI hardware0.96
Vision0.70
Knowledge representation0.59
Machine learning0.19
Evolutionary computation0.01
Natural language0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

WALMART APOLLO, LLC

assignment · 570630817

Assignors

ROTH, BRIAN C., DURKEE, PAUL, SHAFFER, JASON D.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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