US 12,333,487 B2
In-scope and out-of-scope RFID-based item management
Sara Vaught, Centerton, AR (US); Jeffrey S. Cruz, Bentonville, AR (US); Donald Busse, Bentonville, AR (US); Mike Graen, Fayetteville, AR (US); and Abiy Hailemichael, Sterling, VA (US)
Assigned to Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US)
Filed by Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US)
Filed on Mar. 30, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/708,218.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/168,413, filed on Mar. 31, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0318732 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/087 (2023.01); G06K 7/10 (2006.01)
CPC G06Q 10/087 (2013.01) [G06K 7/10366 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An inventory management system comprising:
a processor;
a memory communicatively coupled to the processor and having stored thereon computer-executable instructions causing the processor to:
obtain radio frequency identification (RFID) tag data associated with a plurality of items from at least one RFID tag reader to determine an item count values, wherein the plurality of items is associated with a modular display;
calculate a confidence score, wherein the confidence score is based on at least a location of the plurality of items;
compare the confidence score against a confidence threshold value and in response to the confidence score equaling or exceeding the confidence threshold value, apply a set of product in-scope out-of-scope (PISOS) rules, via a PISOS manager, to the plurality of items; the set of PISOS rules comprising:
determine a first set of items within the plurality of items having detected item count values lower than a current on-hand inventory count values;
reject a downward adjustment of the current on-hand inventory count values for a first sub-set of items within the first set of items identified as out-of-scope based on application of the set of PISOS;
send the detected item count values associated with a second sub-set of items within the first set of items for downward adjustment of the current on-hand inventory count values of the second sub-set of items, wherein the second sub-set of items is in-scope for the downward adjustment of the current on-hand inventory count values based on the application of the set of PISOS rules; and
adjust, automatically, the current on-hand inventory count values associated with a second set of items in the plurality of items upward based on detected item count values in response to:
a first condition where the detected item count values associated with the second set of items exceeds the current on-hand inventory count values associated with the second set of items, and
a second condition where a capacity value associated with the modular display is equal to or greater than the detected item count values associated with the second set of items.