Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Automatically merging pickup and delivery time slots from nearby stores
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Application No.: US17486663Application Date: 2021-09-27
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Publication No.: US11948185B2Publication Date: 2024-04-02
- Inventor: Austin Lee Smith , Vineet Wason , Mihir Vijay Bendale , Vidyanand Krishnan , Navkaran Singh Chadha , Puneet Srivastava , Yiren Ye , Nitish Sarin , Avaneesh Tiwari , Zekariyas Kassa Gebru , Rohit Jain , Surnaik Srivastava
- Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC
- Applicant Address: US AR Bentonville
- Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
- Current Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US AR Bentonville
- Agency: BRYAN CAVE LEIGHTON PAISNER LLP
- Main IPC: G06Q30/0601
- IPC: G06Q30/0601 ; G06Q10/0631 ; G06Q10/0836 ; G06Q10/087

Abstract:
A method being implemented via execution of computing instructions configured to run at one or more processors. The method can include determining a primary store and one or more secondary stores for pickup of an order of a user, based at least in part on a pickup type of the order. The method also can include determining real-time availabilities of first time slots at the primary store and real-time availabilities of second time slots at the one or more secondary stores. The method additionally can include generating a list of available time slots comprising at least a portion of the first time slots at the primary store and at least a portion of the second time slots at the one or more secondary stores, based at least in part on the real-time availabilities of the first time slots at the primary store and the real-time availabilities of the second time slots at the one or more secondary stores. The method further can include facilitating displaying to the user a user interface comprising at least a portion of the list of available time slots. Other embodiments are described.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220101414A1 AUTOMATICALLY MERGING PICKUP AND DELIVERY TIME SLOTS FROM NEARBY STORES Public/Granted day:2022-03-31
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