NOTIFYING AN ATTENDANT WHEN A CUSTOMER SCANS AN OVERSIZED ITEM

Patent №

US 9,767,447

Granted

2017-09-19

Filed 2013

Owner

WAL-MART STORES, INC.

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13753434

A computer-implemented method for providing a product to a user includes determining that an item obtained by a mobile computing device corresponding to the user is indicative of an oversized item. A first notification is generated indicating the oversized item and retrieval information related to the oversized item. The first notification is transmitted to a first facility computing device corresponding to a first facility attendant. When the user completes a transaction for the purchase of the oversized product at one of the point of sale terminal, terminal information related to the point of sale terminal is obtained. A second notification is generated related to the terminal information. The second notification is transmitted to a second facility computing device corresponding to a second facility attendant.

PlanningG06Q 20/202G06Q 20/3224G06Q 20/3276

AI classification

Planning1.00
AI hardware0.05
Natural language0.02
Evolutionary computation0.01
Knowledge representation0.01
Vision0.00
Speech0.00
Machine learning0.00

Ownership

WAL-MART STORES, INC.

assignment · 297160976

Assignors

PEDLEY, DOUGLAS JAMES, CANCRO, RICHARD NEIL, ACKER JR., JOEL BENNETT

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

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