US 12,443,917 B2
Information processing system, occupancy rate calculation method, and non-transitory computer readable memory
Ken Kuroda, Tokyo (JP); Chisa Yamamoto, Tokyo (JP); Manabu Toraishi, Tokyo (JP); and Shuhei Shimamura, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Rakuten Group, Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Rakuten Group, Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Oct. 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/973,978.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-175539 (JP), filed on Oct. 27, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0144169 A1, May 2, 2024
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/087 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 10/087 (2013.01) 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A shelf storage management system comprising:
a plurality of shelf tiers in an area;
a worker terminal comprising:
at least one terminal memory storing terminal program code; and
at least one terminal processor configured to access the terminal program code and to operate as instructed by the terminal program code; and
a shelf tier management system comprising:
a communication unit configured to communicate with the worker terminal;
at least one system memory storing an item information database, a shelf tier information database, and system program code; and
at least one system processor configured to access the item information database, the shelf tier information database, and the system program code and to operate as instructed by the system program code, the system program code including:
first acquisition code configured to cause at least one of the at least one system processor to acquire, from the shelf tier information database, size information of each of the plurality of shelf tiers;
second acquisition code configured to cause at least one of the at least one system processor to acquire, from at least one of the item information database and the shelf tier information database, size information of a respective accommodated item that is accommodated in each of the plurality of shelf tiers;
calculation code configured to cause at least one of the at least one system processor to obtain an occupancy rate of the respective accommodated item in each of the plurality of shelf tiers based on at least the size information of the respective shelf tier and the size information of the respective accommodated item, and to calculate a corrected occupancy rate for each of the plurality of the shelf tiers by correcting the respective occupancy rate with a correction coefficient according to the respective accommodated item;
first identifying code configured to cause at least one of the at least one processor to identify, based on the corrected occupancy rate of each of the plurality of shelf tiers, a recommended one or more shelf tiers, among the plurality of shelf tiers, to accommodate an unaccommodated item that is not yet accommodated in the plurality of shelf tiers, and
presentation code configured to cause at least one of the at least one system processor to cause the communication unit to transmit information regarding the recommended one or more shelf tiers to the worker terminal,
wherein the terminal program code comprises:
area map generation code configured to cause at least one of the at least one terminal processor to generate an area map comprising an installation position of each of the plurality of shelf tiers, the corrected occupancy rate for each of the plurality of shelf tiers, and the information regarding the recommended one or more shelf tiers, and
display code configured to cause at least one of the at least one terminal processor to display the area map on a display of the worker terminal.