US 11,810,055 B2
Shipment verification
Andrew B. Millhouse, Gilbert, AZ (US); Timothy J. Burleson, Bentonville, AR (US); John S. Meredith, Bentonville, AR (US); and Todd D. Mattingly, Bentonville, AR (US)
Assigned to Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US)
Filed by Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US)
Filed on Jan. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/102,246.
Application 18/102,246 is a continuation of application No. 17/487,893, filed on Sep. 28, 2021, granted, now 11,593,749.
Application 17/487,893 is a continuation of application No. 15/921,002, filed on Mar. 14, 2018, granted, now 11,157,865, issued on Oct. 26, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/471,454, filed on Mar. 15, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0177447 A1, Jun. 8, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/08 (2023.01); G06Q 10/10 (2023.01); G06Q 10/0833 (2023.01); G06Q 10/1093 (2023.01); G06K 7/14 (2006.01)
CPC G06Q 10/0833 (2013.01) [G06Q 10/1097 (2013.01); G06K 7/1413 (2013.01); G06K 7/1417 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for verifying accuracy of a shipment comprising:
an electronic scanning device for sensing, via at least one of Bluetooth or radio frequency identification (RFID) communications, an item identifier of each item of a plurality of items to be unloaded from the vehicle as the items are unloaded;
a control circuit coupled to the electronic scanning device, the control circuit including a programmable processor and configured to compare information from the item identifier scanned by the electronic scanning device to a delivery schedule listing all items aboard a vehicle to be unloaded at a delivery location to verify that correct ones of the items were unloaded from the vehicle;
an output device configured to, only if the control circuit verifies that the correct ones of the items were unloaded from the vehicle, generate a seal identifier to be physically applied to a physical seal configured to interconnect handles of doors that provide access to a cargo area of the vehicle, and at least one of:
apply the seal identifier generated by the output device to the physical seal configured to interconnect the handles of the doors that provide access to the cargo area of vehicle to indicate to users at a subsequent scheduled stop of the vehicle that a prior unloading operation of the items from the vehicle was correctly performed;
encode the seal identifier generated by the output device onto a memory device of the physical seal; and
print the seal identifier generated by the output device on a substrate configured to be attached to the physical seal.