Systems and methods for facilitating shopping in a physical retail facility

US10592959B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Walmart Apollo, LLC · US

Inventors

• Bruce W. Wilkinson · Rogers, US
• Matthew A. Jones · Bentonville, US
• Aaron J. Vasgaard · Rogers, US
• Robert James Taylor · Rogers, US
• Tim Webb · Rogers, US
• Todd D. Mattingly · Bentonville, US
• Jason Todd · Bentonville, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 14, 2017
• Grant date: Mar 17, 2020
• Expiry date: Apr 22, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q90/00
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to facilitate expedient shopping in a physical retail facility. In one embodiment, a shopping system directed to pre-filling shopping carts with retail items prior to a customer's arrival at the physical retail shopping facility includes a user database of user profiles having one or more partialities associated with customers, a product database of retail products with identified vectorized characterizations or product vectors, a plurality of physical shopping carts, and a control circuit. By one approach, the control circuit is configured to access the user database and the product database and identify suggested retail items for a particular customer based, in part, on comparisons between the identified partialities and the identified vectorized product characterizations of the retail products.