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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2022
Walmart Apollo, Llc, Bentonville, AR (US);
Rajasekhar Jetty, Austin, TX (US);
Yogananda Domlur Seetharama, Plano, TX (US);
Maheshwar Ramakrishnan, Bangalore, IN;
Ieshan A. Vaidya, Dallas, TX (US);
Jaehyuk Choi, Dallas, TX (US);
Chi-san Ho, Allen, TX (US);
Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US);
Abstract
There are provided systems and methods for assisting consumers with merchandise purchases at a retail facility. The system may include an application to facilitate purchase of merchandise items at a retail facility, which may be executed on a user's mobile device. The application may receive input regarding items scanned at the retail facility using the mobile device and may facilitate payment for the scanned items by the mobile device. The system may also include a control circuit that: accesses database(s) to determine the user's purchase history; determines candidate items to be considered for recommendation to the user; computes a ranking of candidate items based on a weighted combination of recency and frequency of purchases of each candidate item, merchandise category of other candidate items, and price of the candidate item; and causes the display on the mobile device of additional recommended merchandise items for purchase by the user.