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Techniques for filling orders

  • US 9,477,982 B2
  • Filed: 10/22/2015
  • Issued: 10/25/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system comprising:

  • N location indicators for arrangement throughout a store that includes a plurality of stocked items for picking according to one or more electronic customer orders, wherein each of the N location indicators is configured to transmit a different location signal such that N different location signals are transmitted in the store, wherein the N location signals define M different areas of the store, each of the M areas covered by one or more of the N location signals, and wherein each of the stocked items is associated with one of M different location values, each of the M location values corresponding to one of the M areas; and

    a mobile scanning device comprising a display, the mobile scanning device configured to;

    store a location map that defines how the M areas are arranged;

    store the associations between the stocked items and the M location values;

    wirelessly receive an electronic customer order comprising a plurality of ordered items indicating which of the stocked items are to be picked;

    detect one or more of the N location signals;

    determine a current location value of the M location values based on the one or more detected location signals; and

    arrange at least some of the plurality of ordered items on the display based on at least one of the current location value, the location map, and the associations between the stocked items and the M location values.

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