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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2023
Walmart Apollo, Llc, 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
A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including: receiving an order list for delivery at a delivery address; determining an estimated order collection time; continuously monitoring, in real-time, a respective location of each delivery driver of one or more delivery drivers of at least one delivery service by receiving the respective location of each delivery driver of the one or more delivery drivers from a respective delivery driver electronic device of each delivery driver; and instructing a first delivery driver of the one or more delivery drivers to pick up one or more items in the order list and deliver the one or more items to the delivery address. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.