	US 11,954,644 B2
	Electronic apparatus for providing picking information of item and method thereof
Hyeon Chang Baek, Seoul (KR); Chang Hyun Kim, Seoul (KR); Sang Ho Yim, Seoul (KR); Sung Jin Park, Seoul (KR); Chang Geun Jin, Seoul (KR); and Lianxi Bai, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to Coupang Corp., Seoul (KR)
Filed by Coupang Corp., Seoul (KR)
Filed on Jul. 1, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/365,595.
Application 17/365,595 is a continuation of application No. 17/016,132, filed on Sep. 9, 2020, granted, now 11,113,662.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0098789 (KR), filed on Aug. 6, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0044195 A1, Feb. 10, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/0875 (2023.01); G06Q 50/28 (2012.01)

CPC G06Q 10/0875 (2013.01) [G06Q 50/28 (2013.01)]

12 Claims

1. An electronic apparatus for arranging item pickup information based on storage locations and user locations, the electronic apparatus comprising:

a communication port;

a memory comprising instructions; and

a processor,

wherein the processor is connected to the memory and, based on execution of the instructions, configured to:

receive, at a first time and via the communication port, pickup item information comprising information on a first quantity of a first item type to be picked up from an item storage center, wherein the item storage center comprises a plurality of storage places, and wherein each storage place of the plurality of storage places is configured to store, at a respective storage location, one or more item groups, and wherein the one or more item groups are stored in the plurality of storage places based on a random stow-based arranging method;

receiving, during a predetermined time range after the first time, one or more pickup item information, each comprising information on a quantity of the first item type to be picked up from the item storage center;

generating, by combining the first pickup item information and the one or more pickup item information, integrated pickup item information comprising information on a first quantity of the first item type to be picked up from the item storage center;

receive, via the communication port and corresponding to the first item type, information of at least one storage place in which the first item type is located among the plurality of storage places at the item storage center;

determine, based on the first quantity of the first item type in the pickup item information and based on respective quantities of the first item type at the plurality of storage places, whether any respective quantity of the first item type is equal or greater than the first quantity;

determine, based on a determination that no respective quantity is equal or greater than the first quantity, a first storage place, at a first location, which comprises a second quantity of the first item type, wherein the second quantity is less than the first quantity of the first item type received in the pickup item information;

determine, based on an attribute of the first item type, a second storage place at a second location;

cause the first location and the second location to be displayed on a screen of a manager terminal;

determine, at a first time, a first current location of the manager terminal;

determine, based on the first location, the second location, and the first current location of the manager terminal, that the location of the manager terminal, a storage place, among the first storage location and the second storage location, that is closer to the manager terminal; and

automatically cause, on the screen of the manager terminal and based on the first current location of the manager terminal at the first time, display of a route from the location of the manager terminal to the storage place that is closer to the manager terminal;

determine, at a second time, a second current location of the manager terminal; and

based on the second current location of the manager terminal corresponding to the storage place that is closer to the manager terminal, automatically cause, on the screen of the manager terminal, display of the quantity of the first item type to be picked up at the storage place that is closer to the manager terminal;

receive, from the manager terminal, (i) scanning information on barcodes related to the storage place that is closer to the manager terminal and (ii) information on a quantity of the first item type actually picked up; and

update information on the first item type placed in the storage place that is closer to the manager terminal based on the scanning information and the information on the quantity of the first item type actually picked up.