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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2024
Walmart Apollo, Llc, Bentonville, AR (US);
Austin Lee Smith, San Jose, CA (US);
Vineet Wason, San Jose, CA (US);
Mihir Vijay Bondale, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Vidyanand Krishnan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Navkaran Singh Chadha, San Francisco, CA (US);
Puneet Srivastava, Fremont, CA (US);
Yiren Ye, Milpitas, CA (US);
Nitish Sarin, Gurgaon, IN;
Avaneesh Tiwari, Kanpur, IN;
Zekariyas Kassa Gebru, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rohit Jain, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Surnaik Srivastava, Santa Clara, CA (US);
WALMART APOLLO, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US);
Abstract
A method being implemented via execution of computing instructions configured to run at one or more processors. The method can include determining a primary store and one or more secondary stores for pickup of an order of a user, which can include: performing a first lookup call to a first cache of one or more proximate access points based on the primary store; and when a list of the one or more proximate access points is not retrieved in the first lookup call: performing a second lookup call to a second cache of active access points; determining the one or more proximate access points from among the active access points; and storing the one or more proximate access points in the first cache to update the first cache. The method also can include transmitting, for display to the user, a list of available time slots based on availability of time slots at the primary store and the one or more secondary stores. Other embodiments are described.