US 12,086,780 B2
Systems and methods for auditing registers
Kevin Philip Clay, Centeron, AR (US); Catherine Antill, San Bruno, CA (US); Jingru Zhou, San Jose, CA (US); Tzu-Yen Wang, San Mateo, CA (US); Uday B. Akella, San Carlos, CA (US); Hui-Min Chen, Pleasanton, CA (US); Ashley Renee Renee Greehey, Bradenton, FL (US); Chuying Ma, Sunnyvale, CA (US); and David Andrew Splittorff, Bentonville, AR (US)
Assigned to Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US)
Filed by Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US)
Filed on Dec. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/644,675.
Prior Publication US 2023/0196324 A1, Jun. 22, 2023
Int. Cl. G06Q 20/20 (2012.01); G06N 5/01 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 20/202 (2013.01) [G06N 5/01 (2023.01); G06Q 20/206 (2013.01); G06Q 20/209 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
one or more registers, wherein each register is configured to house a respective first compartment;
a recycling device, wherein the recycling device comprises:
a housing configured to hold one or more first compartments;
one or more counting devices, wherein the recycling device is configured to receive each respective first compartment from the one or more registers and the one or more counting devices are configured to count money in each respective first compartment; and
a processor configured to calculate a monetary position for each of the one or more registers and transmit each respective calculated monetary position to a database;
one or more handheld computing devices running a mobile application; and
one or more retailer computing devices, wherein the one or more retailer computing devices are configured to:
store a decision model comprising one or more audit rules;
receive the respective calculated monetary position for at least one of the one or more registers;
receive activity data for at least one of the one or more registers;
generate a first associate record based at least on the decision model and one or more of the respective calculated monetary position for one of the one or more registers and the respective activity data for one of the one or more registers;
generate a second associate record based at least on the decision model and historical behavioral data for one or more associates;
generate a first audit alert record based at least on the second associate record and the decision model;
send the one or more audit alerts to the one or more handheld computing devices, wherein each audit alert indicates which of the one or more registers to audit, and
wherein the mobile application is configured to display a notification to a user indicating which of the one or more registers to audit; and
send the first audit alert record to the database.