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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2015
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Adrian Christopher Quan, Bainbridge Island, WA (US);
Jamie Marie Holland, Seattle, WA (US);
Kimberly Anne Lewis, Seattle, WA (US);
Benjamin Lee Farrow, Sammamish, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Features are disclosed for using location awareness, bin capacity, and environmental cues to provide in context guidance to the associate when stowing items such as at a fulfillment center. In accordance with aspects of the present disclosure, the associate may scan an item he or she may want to stow. In response, lights on the bins in the associate's vicinity are illuminated to indicate bins in which the item can be stowed (e.g., because the item fits in the bin) without breaking stow etiquette. For example, in order to prevent mix up, stow etiquette may indicate that two types of erasers should not be stored in the same bin. As yet another example, stow etiquette may indicate that an item should not be stowed in a bin, even if it fits and there is room, so that a total weight for the bin is not exceeded.