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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:
Jun. 06, 2023

Filed:

Jan. 15, 2021
Applicant:

Walmart Apollo, Llc, Bentonville, CA (US);

Inventors:

Austin Lee Smith, San Jose, CA (US);

Vidyanand Krishnan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Michael Gilbert Ebener, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

WALMART APOLLO, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/087 (2023.01); G06Q 10/08 (2023.01); G06Q 30/0601 (2023.01); G06Q 10/0631 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/0635 (2013.01); G06Q 10/063116 (2013.01); G06Q 10/063118 (2013.01); G06Q 10/08 (2013.01); G06Q 10/087 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform receiving, at the one or more processors, an order from a customer electronic device; determining, using employee device data collected from one or more electronic devices of one or more employees of a store in a predictive analysis, an estimated collection time required for an employee of the one or more employees of the store to collect the one or more items of the order; receiving a check-in from an electronic device indicating that a pickup is en-route to pick-up the order; when the electronic device authorizes location tracking, tracking a location of the pickup after receiving the check-in from the electronic device; periodically determining, at one or more time intervals, an estimated travel time for the pickup to travel to the store from the location, as tracked; and when the estimated collection time is approximately equal in duration to the estimated travel time, coordinating displaying instructions for the employee of the store to begin collecting the one or more items of the order. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.


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