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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2013
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Eric C. Young, Bellevue, WA (US);
Devesh Mishra, Snoqualmie, WA (US);
Timothy Jesse Tien, Seattle, WA (US);
Jun Zhao, Bellevue, WA (US);
Sameer Vinod Shah, Seattle, WA (US);
Zongyi Liu, Issaquah, WA (US);
AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are various embodiments of systems and methods for receiving shipment parcels at, for example, materials handling facilities. In some embodiments, a parcel monitoring system detects an exception for a shipment parcel. The parcel monitoring system identifies a vendor associated with the shipment parcel. In response to the exception being detected, the parcel monitoring system controls a conveyor system in accordance with an action specified by an exception handling rule for the vendor.