Automatically merging pickup and delivery time slots from nearby stores

US11948185B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Walmart Apollo, LLC · US

Inventors

• Austin Lee Smith · Burlingame, US
• Vineet Wason · San Jose, US
• Mihir Vijay Bendale · Pleasanton, US
• Vidyanand Krishnan · Sunnyvale, US
• Navkaran Singh Chadha · San Francisco, US
• Puneet Srivastava · Fremont, US
• Yiren Ye · Milpitas, US
• Nitish Sarin · Bhangrola, IN
• Avaneesh Tiwari · Kanpur, IN
• Zekariyas Kassa Gebru · Sunnyvale, US
• Rohit Jain · Danville, US
• Surnaik Srivastava · Santa Clara, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 27, 2021
• Grant date: Apr 2, 2024
• Expiry date: Dec 1, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/0633
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

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.