Systems and methods for automatically invoking a delivery request for an in-progress order

US11126953B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Walmart Apollo, LLC · US

Inventors

• Austin Lee Smith · Burlingame, US
• Deepak Deshpande · San Jose, US
• Vidyanand Krishnan · Sunnyvale, US
• Michael Gilbert Ebener · San Francisco, US
• Arnon Katz · San Mateo, US
• Prakash Seetharaman · Santa Clara, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 14, 2017
• Grant date: Sep 21, 2021
• Expiry date: Apr 11, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/0635
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Systems and methods including one or more processing modules and one or more non-transitory storage modules storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processing modules and perform acts of receiving an order request from a customer, transmitting an order list from the order request to an employee of the store for a collection of products on the order list at the store by the employee, determining an estimated order collection time, continuously monitoring an estimated order pickup time for a delivery driver of a third-party delivery service, and, when the estimated order pickup time for the delivery driver is substantially equal to the estimated order collection time, transmitting a delivery request to the third-party delivery service requesting the delivery driver to pick up the products from the store and deliver the products to the delivery address.