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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2008
Eric Young, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Arthur Valdez, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Hong Tian, Seattle, WA (US);
Eric Young, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Arthur Valdez, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Hong Tian, Seattle, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments may include a shipping consolidation analyzer configured to determine whether a sortation process is to be applied to at least a subset of an item group at a facility. Such item group may include multiple items to be shipped to a common destination. Each item of the item group may be associated with a default non-sortable status. Such sortation process may include a process for indicating at least two items of the subset as consolidated for shipment. The shipping consolidation analyzer may, in response to determining that the sortation process is to be applied to the subset, generate an instruction such that the sortation process is applied at the materials handling facility to the subset of the item group.