Walmart Inc.
Systems and methods for electronic notification queues

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Abstract:

Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform acts of storing one or more notifications in a central data store pursuant to one or more user preferences; receiving a new notification; determining when a number of the one or more notifications is equal to a maximum number of notifications set in the one or more user preferences using a reclamation pointer and an ingestion pointer; when the number of the one or more notifications is equal to the maximum number of notifications, moving the reclamation pointer forward by one or more messages; deleting, from the central data store, notifications of the one or more notifications that are behind the reclamation pointer; storing the new notification with the one or more notifications in the central data store; and facilitating delivery of the new notification of the one or more notifications from the central data store to one or more electronic devices of an organization.

Status:
Grant
Type:

Utility

Filling date:

6 Mar 2019

Issue date:

10 Aug 2021