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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2021

Filed:

Nov. 01, 2019
Applicant:

Aifi Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Steve Gu, San Jose, CA (US);

Ying Zheng, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

AIFI INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/06 (2012.01); G06Q 10/08 (2012.01); B65G 1/10 (2006.01); B65G 1/02 (2006.01); B65G 1/04 (2006.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/0601 (2013.01); B65G 1/02 (2013.01); B65G 1/04 (2013.01); B65G 1/0407 (2013.01); B65G 1/10 (2013.01); G06Q 10/08 (2013.01); G06Q 30/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for managing product items in a store. One of the methods includes receiving, by a computer system associated with the store, sensor data collected by a plurality of sensors associated with the store, wherein the data is associated with a plurality of product items in the store; determining, by the computer system based on the received sensor data, status information associated with the product items in the store; creating, by the computer system based on the determined status information, a task associated with a group of product items among the product items in the store; sending, by the computer system to a mechanical device, instructions for moving from a current location of the mechanical device to a location of the group of product items and instructions for executing one or more interactions associated with the task with the group of product items; and updating the status information upon completion of the task.


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