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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2017
Wal-mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, AR (US);
Austin Lee Smith, Burlingame, CA (US);
Deepak Deshpande, San Jose, CA (US);
Vidyanand Krishnan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Michael Gilbert Ebener, San Francisco, CA (US);
Arnon Katz, San Mateo, CA (US);
Prakash Seetharaman, Santa Clara, 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 an order request from a customer, transmitting an order list from the order request to an employee of the store for a collection of products on the order list at the store by the employee, determining an estimated order collection time, continuously monitoring an estimated order pickup time for a delivery driver of a third-party delivery service, and, when the estimated order pickup time for the delivery driver is substantially equal to the estimated order collection time, transmitting a delivery request to the third-party delivery service requesting the delivery driver to pick up the products from the store and deliver the products to the delivery address.