US 11,941,679 B1
Notifying users of item expiration
Ohil Krishnamurthy Manyam, Bothell, WA (US)
Assigned to Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed by Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed on May 16, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/414,645.
Application 16/414,645 is a division of application No. 14/109,250, filed on Dec. 17, 2013, granted, now 10,319,021.
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/00 (2023.01); G06Q 30/0204 (2023.01); G06Q 30/0251 (2023.01); G06Q 30/0601 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 30/0631 (2013.01) [G06Q 30/0205 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0255 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0261 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer readable medium bearing computer executable instructions which, when executed on a computing system comprising one or more processors executing the instructions, carry out a method on the computing system for providing an item reminder to a user, the method, comprising:
determining, at the computing system, over a period of time and based at least in part on position data received from a portable device associated with a user or image data received from one or more of a plurality of imaging devices of a materials handling facility, an arrival frequency of the user indicating a frequency with which the user visits the materials handling facility;
receiving, at the computing system, at least one of image data from one or more of the plurality of imaging devices of the materials handling facility or an identifier;
determining, at the computing system and based at least in part on the at least one of the image data or the identifier, that the user is at the materials handling facility; and
while the user is at the materials handling facility:
determining, at the computing system and based at least in part on the arrival frequency, a date associated with a next anticipated arrival of the user at the materials handling facility;
determining, at the computing system, that an item previously picked by the user will expire before the date; and
based on the determination that the item previously picked by the user will expire before the date, recommending, by the computing system, the item to the user while the user is located at the materials handling facility.