Walmart Inc.
System, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for mobile check-in in retail store

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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, in a pharmacy database of a computer system, pharmacy account information, wherein the pharmacy account information comprises: a unique patient ID associated with a customer; a pharmaceutical drug record indicating a pharmaceutical drug prescribed to the customer; and an action record indicating triggering actions of the pharmaceutical drug; determining, by the computer system, that the customer is entering or has entered a retail store; after determining that the customer is entering or has entered a retail store: confirming, by the computer system, that the customer has at least one prescription fill order pending with a pharmacy of the retail store; prioritizing, by the computer system, the at least one prescription fill order to a top of a workflow of a pharmacist in the pharmacy of the retail store; and transmitting a communication to a mobile computing device of the customer that the customer will be notified when the at least one prescription fill order is ready to be picked up at the pharmacy of the retail store; detecting, by the computer system, a triggering action of the triggering actions of the pharmaceutical drug; and in response to detecting the triggering action, facilitating a display, on the mobile computing device of the customer, of a notification about the triggering action. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.

Status:
Grant
Type:

Utility

Filling date:

16 Sep 2019

Issue date:

14 Jun 2022