US 12,423,737 B2
System, method, and machine-readable media for monitoring objects in a cart using sensors
Matthew Allen Jones, Bentonville, AR (US); Aaron James Vasgaard, Fayetteville, AR (US); Nicholaus Adam Jones, Fayetteville, AR (US); and Robert James Taylor, Rogers, AR (US)
Assigned to Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US)
Filed by Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US)
Filed on Oct. 17, 2017, as Appl. No. 15/785,835.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/409,443, filed on Oct. 18, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2018/0108072 A1, Apr. 19, 2018
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/06 (2023.01); G06Q 20/32 (2012.01); G06Q 30/0601 (2023.01); G07G 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06Q 30/0633 (2013.01) [G06Q 20/3224 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0625 (2013.01); G07G 1/0081 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for monitoring objects in carts operated by users, the system comprising:
a cart of a user configured to receive an object, wherein the cart contains a plurality of sensors;
the plurality of sensors configured to detect a geographical location of the cart of the user, scan a scannable identifier of the object in the cart, and measure a measurable physical characteristic of the object in the cart of the user, wherein the measurable physical characteristic includes dimensions of the object in the cart,
at least one sensor of the plurality of sensors configured to output to an electronic device of the user of the cart: the detected geographical location of the cart, the scannable identifier of the object in the cart, and the measurable physical characteristic of the object in the cart of the user; and
a computing system disposed remotely from the electronic device of the user of the cart and configured to be in communication with the electronic device and to:
access a database containing a stored list, the stored list being a list of objects that are preselected for retrieving and placing into the cart of the user, wherein each of the objects on the stored list in the database is associated with an expected geographical location;
identify the object in the cart of the user based, at least in part, on the detected geographical location of the cart and at least one of: the scannable identifier of the object or the measurable physical characteristic of the object received from the at least one sensor of the plurality of sensors;
determine, based on an identity of the object, whether the object in the cart of the user is included on the stored list; and
based on a correlation of the geographical location of the cart of the user and the expected geographical location of the objects on the stored list:
determine that the cart of the user has passed the expected geographical location of one of the objects on the stored list without the one of the objects on the stored list having been placed in the cart of the user; and
after a determination by the computing system, that the cart of the user has passed the expected geographical location of one of the objects on the stored list without the one of the objects on the stored list having been placed in the cart of the user, transmit a command, to the electronic device of the user of the cart,
wherein after the command is received by the electronic device of the user of the cart, the electronic device of the user of the cart generates an electronic notification within a graphical interface on a display of the electronic device of the user of the cart, the electronic notification visibly indicating to the user of the cart that the cart of the user has passed the expected geographical location of the one of the objects on the stored list without the one of the objects on the stored list being placed into the cart of the user.