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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2023
Walmart Apollo, Llc, Bentonville, AR (US);
Amritayan Nayak, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Prakash Seetharaman, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Mingang Fu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Pushkar Raj Pande, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Deepak Deshpande, San Jose, CA (US);
Kumar Malyala, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Rohit Jain, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US);
Abstract
Horizontally-scalable systems and methods for scheduling and optimizing deliveries are described herein. At least one scheduler is configured to receive a request to schedule a delivery for an origination location. The request includes a desired time slot. The request is compared to a persistent delivery snapshot for the origination location to determine availability of the desired time slot. An interim delivery snapshot including the requested delivery is generated when the persistent delivery snapshot has an available time slot corresponding to the desired time slot. At least one optimizer is configured to receive the interim delivery snapshot and generate an updated persistent delivery snapshot by applying an optimization process to the interim delivery snapshot.