Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Anamika Sinha

Daniel Buchmueller

Ohil Krishnamurthy Manyam

Ramanathan Palaniappan

Michel Leonard Goldstein

Long Xuan Nguyen

Raymond Wheekyun Lim

Jon Robert Ducrou

This disclosure describes a system for determining an estimated user departure time from a materials handling facility. For example, a user may enter a materials handling facility to pick one or more items from the materials handling facility. Those items may be provided to an agent for processing, such as packing, while the user picks other items within the materials handling facility. To ensure that the items are processed in a timely manner and made available to the user when the user is ready to depart from the materials handling facility, the implementations discussed determine an anticipated user departure time and compare that time with an estimated processing time needed to process the items.

Item tracking within a facility

The application describes a system and process for anticipating when a user will leave a selection area within a materials handling facility and determining if a notification requesting that the user provide a tote of picked items to a drop off location should be presented to the user. For example, a user may be asked to provide items picked from a selection area for processing, such as packing, while the user is picking items from other selection areas of a materials handling facility.

Notifying users to provide picked items to a drop off location for processing

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Anamika Sinha