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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2014
Applicant:
Wal-mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, AR (US);
Inventors:
Madhavan Kandhadai Vasantham, Foster City, CA (US);
Sreekanth Sreedhararaj, Foster City, CA (US);
Mahesh Tyagarajan, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
WAL-MART STORES, INC., Bentonville, AR (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 40/00 (2012.01); G06Q 10/08 (2012.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/087 (2013.01); G06F 17/30 (2013.01); H04L 67/2852 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure extends to maintaining an item inventory status at an inventory cache management system. The inventory cache may be refreshed regularly by a threshold-based triggering mechanism. In embodiments, as item inventory breaches certain thresholds, the inventory cache may be refreshed with increased frequency to mitigate overselling or underselling scenarios and reduce overall network traffic for items having relatively high inventory levels.