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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2009
Priya Padmanabhan, Issaquah, WA (US);
Samir Kumar, Issaquah, WA (US);
Alexander C. Prater, Seattle, WA (US);
Prajakta Vaidya, Bellevue, WA (US);
Eric Young, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Priya Padmanabhan, Issaquah, WA (US);
Samir Kumar, Issaquah, WA (US);
Alexander C. Prater, Seattle, WA (US);
Prajakta Vaidya, Bellevue, WA (US);
Eric Young, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments of a system and method for authoritative item identification based on facility operations are described. Embodiments may include an authoritative item identification component configured to, for each particular item of multiple items in inventory of a materials handling facility, determine multiple identifiers for the particular item, where one or more of the multiple identifiers are electronically obtained from a unit of the particular item during operations of the materials handling facility. The authoritative item identification component may, for each of the multiple identifiers, determine a quantity of instances in which that identifier was electronically obtained from a given unit of the particular item. The authoritative item identification component may, based on a statistical analysis of the quantities, determine one of the multiple identifiers as being an authoritative identifier for the particular item. The authoritative item identification component may identify one or more units based on the authoritative identifiers.