Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Sensor-based customer arrival detection
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Application No.: US16057430Application Date: 2018-08-07
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Publication No.: US10762462B1Publication Date: 2020-09-01
- Inventor: Ryan Hapgood , Alexander Edwards , Uladzimir Silchanka , Lev Zelenskiy , James Lance Eather , Sheng-Wei Lin , Jon R. Ducrou , Michael John Neville
- Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US WA Seattle
- Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Seattle
- Agency: Lee & Hayes, P.C.
- Main IPC: G06Q10/06
- IPC: G06Q10/06 ; G01C21/12

Abstract:
Upon receiving an indication that a customer is initiating travel to a merchant location to pick up one or more items, sensor data may be obtained by, and received from, a customer device of the customer. After the customer has arrived at the merchant location, the customer may be greeted or otherwise interacted with and a corresponding interaction time may be determined. The service provider may identify one or more stop events based on the sensor data, where a stop event indicates that a customer stopped while in transit to the merchant location. A most recent stop event prior to the interaction time may constitute the customer arriving/stopping at the merchant location, and a corresponding arrival time may be estimated. A wait time of the customer may be determined based on a difference between the interaction time and the arrival time.
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