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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2016
Wal-mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, AR (US);
Mingang Fu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Deepak Deshpande, San Jose, CA (US);
Prakash Seetharaman, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Devadas Pattathil, San Jose, CA (US);
WALMART APOLLO, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods including one or more processing modules and one or more non-transitory storage modules storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processing modules and perform acts of receiving website orders on a website of an online retailer for delivery of products, determining at least one fleet delivery route for delivery of the products using a vehicle fleet of the online retailer, and performing a randomized node movement on the at least one fleet delivery route to optimize delivery of the products. Performing the randomized node movement can include selecting a source route, selecting a first node from the source route, selecting a destination route from the at least one fleet delivery route and one or more third-party delivery routes, evaluating a cost differential of inserting the first node into a third-party delivery route, and inserting the first node into first third-party delivery route.
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