US 12,106,261 B2
Systems and methods for condition compliance
Christopher M. Johnson, Bentonville, AR (US); Jeffrey D. Thiessen, Rogers, AR (US); Carla Denise Sharpe, Springdale, AR (US); and Anand Banik, Secaucus, AR (US)
Assigned to Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US)
Filed by Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US)
Filed on May 1, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/141,615.
Application 18/141,615 is a continuation of application No. 16/596,966, filed on Oct. 9, 2019, granted, now 11,715,059.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/744,766, filed on Oct. 12, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0259869 A1, Aug. 17, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/0833 (2023.01); H04W 4/35 (2018.01); H04W 8/00 (2009.01)
CPC G06Q 10/0833 (2013.01) [H04W 4/35 (2018.02); H04W 8/005 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for monitoring condition compliance of products, the system comprising: a child device, wherein the child device is configured to be incorporated with a container housing a product, child device comprising: a child device sensor, wherein the child device sensor is configured to capture condition data associated with the product; a child device memory, wherein the child device memory is configured to store the condition data associated with the product; a child device transmitter, wherein the child device transmitter is configured to transmit the condition data associated with the product; and a control circuit, wherein the control circuit is configured to: cause transmission, via the child device transmitter, of a discovery message; determine that the discovery message did not reach a parent device; in response to the determination, receive, from other child devices via the child device transmitter, acknowledgment messages; determine, from the other child devices, one of the other child devices that is further from the child device than another of the child devices; and cause transmission of the condition data associated with the product to the one of the other child devices further from the child device than another of the child devices.