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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2018
Wal-mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, AR (US);
David Jon Carr, Mountain View, CA (US);
Richard Mark Ramsden, Foster City, CA (US);
WALMART APOLLO, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US);
Abstract
A system identifying an order comprising items for users for delivery to a common geographic location by: identifying an order comprising items for users for delivery to a common geographic location, wherein the order further comprises instructions to separate each item of the items associated with each one of the users by: receiving an indication to identify the each item of the items in the order, wherein the order is stored in a database of a retailer; receiving an indication to identify the users associated with the order by accessing user accounts for the each one of the users, wherein the user accounts are stored in a user database; receiving an indication to identify a particular user of the users that is associated with the each item of the items in the order; and generating a list of items of the items associated with the each one of the users; calculating respective payments for respective portions of the order, wherein the each one of the users is presented with a respective one of the lists of items and a respective cost for the respective one of the lists of items associated with the respective portions of the order; receiving the respective payments associated with the respective portions of the order from the each one of the users, the respective payments being applied to the respective one of the lists of items; and generating order processing instructions to process the respective one of the lists of items associated with the each one of the users after receiving respective ones of the respective payments from respective ones of the each one of the users. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.