Abstract:
An unattended retail storefront that is installed in a consumer's residence. The unattended retail storefront includes an unsold product display and storage area, a retail-access portal that provides selective access from within the consumer's residence to the unsold product display and storage area to thereby provide a consumer in the consumer's residence with physical shopping access to the unsold product display and storage area, and an inventory-loading portal that provides selective access from outside the consumer's residence to the unsold product display and storage area, to thereby provide a retail enterprise with inventory-maintenance access to the unsold product display and storage area. Part or all of the unsold product display in storage area may be refrigerated. One or both of the aforementioned portals may be lockable as desired. By one approach the retail-access portal can be configured to automatically lock when the inventory-loading portal is opened.
Abstract:
A control circuit selects at least one particular one of a plurality of products to present to a particular customer as a candidate for automatic periodic shipping as a function, at least in part, of partiality vectors for that particular customer and vectorized characterizations for each of a plurality of products. These vectorized characterizations can each indicate a measure regarding an extent to which a corresponding one of the products accords with a corresponding one of the plurality of partiality vectors. The foregoing information can be stored in a memory to which the control circuit operably couples.
Abstract:
Generally speaking, pursuant to these various embodiments a retail shopping facility contains various items available for purchase. A corresponding memory stores registered ownership information provided at least in part by a consumer in conjunction with purchasing a retail item at the retail shopping facility. A corresponding control circuit provides a possession-transfer opportunity by which an owner of the retail item can offer possession of the retail item to another party. When the owner of the retail item selects that possession-transfer opportunity for the retail item, the control circuit uses the registered ownership information to offer possession of the retail item to other parties who may be potentially interested in possessing the retail item.
Abstract translation:一般而言,根据这些不同的实施例,零售购物设施包含可供购买的各种物品。 相应的存储器存储至少部分由消费者提供的登记的所有权信息,结合在零售购物设施处购买零售物品。 相应的控制电路提供了拥有转移机会,通过该机会零售物品的所有者可以将该零售物品提供给另一方。 当零售物品的拥有者选择该零售物品的拥有转移机会时,控制电路使用登记的所有权信息向可能有兴趣拥有该零售物品的其他方提供该零售物品的拥有权。 p >
Abstract:
In some embodiments, unmanned aerial task systems are provided that comprise: multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) each comprising: a UAV control circuit; a motor; and a propulsion system; and wherein data acquired through a first set of at least one of the multiple UAVs while performing a first set of at least one task is caused to be distributed to a second set of at least two of the multiple UAVs, and cause cooperative computational processing of the data through the UAV control circuits of the second set of UAVs and cooperatively identify based on the cooperative computational processing a second set of at least one task to be performed, and identify a set of at least two tool systems to be utilized by a third set of at least two of the multiple UAVs in cooperatively performing the second set of at least one task.
Abstract:
In some embodiments, unmanned aerial task systems are provided that comprise: multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) each comprising: a UAV control circuit; a motor; and a propulsion system coupled with the motor and configured to enable UAV to move itself; and wherein a first UAV control circuit of a first UAV of the multiple UAVs, when implementing code stored in memory, is configured to identify, based at least in part on a first task performed using a first tool system temporarily coupled with the first UAV, a set of at least one task to be cooperatively performed by the first UAV and at least a second UAV of the multiple UAVs.
Abstract:
In some embodiments, unmanned aerial task systems are provided that comprise: multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) each comprising: a UAV control circuit; a motor; and a propulsion system coupled with the motor and configured to enable UAV to move itself; and wherein a first UAV control circuit of a first UAV of the multiple UAVs, when implementing code stored in memory, is configured to identify, based at least in part on a first task performed using a first tool system temporarily coupled with the first UAV, a set of at least one task to be cooperatively performed by the first UAV and at least a second UAV of the multiple UAVs.
Abstract:
Autonomous vehicles such as UAVs or cars provide network access points. User devices connect to the network access points and network access is monitored. User location data is also monitored. A profile of the user is generated from the gathered data. Advertisements are selected based on a profile of the user and the current location of the user. The autonomous vehicles may be distributed geographically to provide a network access to a geographic area. In response to detecting that a user device is moving out of a coverage area of an autonomous vehicle, nearby autonomous vehicles are identified. If the user device is in the coverage area of a nearby autonomous vehicle, the network connection to the user device is transferred to that vehicle.
Abstract:
A plurality of retail shopping facilities include a first retail shopping facility. A central computer system identifies a lack of a sufficient number of a particular item at that first retail shopping facility and identifies a candidate pool of other retail shopping facilities of that plurality of retail shopping facilities that have the particular item. The central computer system then eliminates any of the other retail shopping facility that have a sufficient sales trend for the particular item to warrant that exclusion. These teachings then provide for arranging to transfer the particular item from the filtered candidate pool (i.e., one or more of the retail shopping facilities included within the filtered candidate pool).
Abstract:
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein for stabilizing an unmanned aerial system. An apparatus for stabilizing an unmanned aerial system comprises a ring member and a pair of attachment members each having a first end and a second end, the first end being configured to attach to a multicopter and a second end being coupled to the ring member. Wherein the pair of attachment members holds the ring member such that a plane of a circumference of the ring member is generally parallel to blades of the multicopter.
Abstract:
An airborne drone training track includes both a ground track and a ceiling track. The ceiling track can be disposed above and be at least essentially aligned with the ground track. Airborne drone attachment tethers movably attach an airborne drone to each of these tracks. A lower airborne drone attachment tether movably attaches to the ground track and to a bottom portion of the airborne drone. A plurality of upper airborne drone attachment tethers movably attach to the ceiling track and to upper portions of the airborne drone. By one approach there is only one lower airborne drone attachment tether and four upper airborne drone attachment tethers.