Walmart Inc.
System and method for an adaptive election in semi-distributed environments

Abstract:

Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for receiving, at a central server from a first remote data transmission device, first product data for a product at a first location and second product data for the product from a second remote data transmission device at a second location. The respective data is processed sequentially, then determined to contain identical data, such that the system selects a data transmission device as the leader. Then, at a second time, the system receives receiving additional product data from only the selected data transmission device and not from the ignored transmission device, then processes the additional product data as though it had been received from both the first remote data transmission device and the second remote data transmission device.