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.
AI classification
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.