	US 12,187,539 B1
	Group shopping
Korwin Jon Smith, Seattle, WA (US); Amber Autrey Taylor, Seattle, WA (US); Alexander Michael McNamara, Seattle, WA (US); Sridhar Boyapati, Sammamish, WA (US); Jason Michael Famularo, Seattle, WA (US); and Thomas Meilandt Mathiesen, Seattle, WA (US)
Assigned to Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed by Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed on May 1, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/310,210.
Application 18/310,210 is a continuation of application No. 17/010,381, filed on Sep. 2, 2020, granted, now 11,639,265.
Application 17/010,381 is a continuation of application No. 14/479,942, filed on Sep. 8, 2014, granted, now 10,769,579, issued on Sep. 8, 2020.
Int. Cl. B65G 1/137 (2006.01); G05B 15/02 (2006.01); G06K 17/00 (2006.01); G06Q 10/087 (2023.01)

CPC B65G 1/1373 (2013.01) [B65G 1/1371 (2013.01); G05B 15/02 (2013.01); G06K 17/0022 (2013.01); G06Q 10/087 (2013.01)]

20 Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

under control of one or more computing systems configured with executable instructions, determining a first user as the first user enters a materials handling facility;

associating the first user with a profile item identifier list;

determining a second user as the second user enters the materials handling facility;

associating the second user with the profile item identifier list;

adding a first item identifier corresponding to a first item picked by the first user to the profile item identifier list;

adding a second item identifier corresponding to a second item picked by the second user to the profile item identifier list; and

subsequent to adding the first item identifier and the second item identifier to the profile item identifier list, transitioning the first item and the second item from the materials handling facility to the first user.

6. A computing system, comprising:

one or more processors; and

a memory coupled to the one or more processors and storing program instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to at least:

determine a first user in a materials handling facility;

associate the first user with a profile item identifier list;

determine a second user in the materials handling facility;

associate the second user with the profile item identifier list;

for each item picked from any of a plurality of inventory locations within the materials handling facility by the first user or the second user, add a corresponding item identifier for the picked item to the profile item identifier list;

for each item placed to any of the plurality of inventory locations by either the first user or the second user, remove the corresponding item identifier from the profile item identifier list;

determine that the items indicated on the profile item identifier list by the corresponding item identifier are being purchased; and

in response to determination that the items are being purchased, cause a transition of the items to the first user.

15. A method, comprising:

associating a plurality of users with a profile item identifier list;

for each item picked from any of a plurality of inventory locations within a materials handling facility by any of the plurality of users, adding a corresponding item identifier for the picked item to the profile item identifier list; and

causing a transition of each item indicated by the corresponding item identifiers added to the profile item identifier list from the materials handling facility to at least one of the plurality of users.