Systems and methods for service location optimization
AssigneeMars, Incorporated
InventorsAsif Gulambhai PACHIGAR, Anuj SETHI, Matthew D. SCHERZER, Michael WEINSTOCK, Michael C. PEDI, Sumeet PUNDLIK, Kanika GOYAL, Debasis PANDA, Suman Kumar RANA, Pranav ALVA
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Abstract
A method for service location optimization may include methods for deriving service location utilization data from video, predicting an operational characteristic of a service location, optimizing an operational characteristic of a service location, and presenting a user interface for user-directed optimization of an operational characteristic of a service location.
Claims22
1-7. (canceled)
A computer-implemented method for optimizing an operational characteristic of a service location, the method comprising:
- receiving data for one or more operational characteristics for one or more reference service locations;
- receiving, from a user, a target value for an additional operational characteristic of a target service location;
- receiving data for one or more operational point of sale (POS) terminals for the target service location and/or from the reference service locations;
- calculating a predicted service rate based on the received operation characteristics and the received data for the operational POS terminals;
- calculating an average value of the additional operational characteristic for each of the operational POS terminals;
- selecting a POS terminal among the one or more operational POS terminals with a calculated average value of the additional operational characteristic that matches the target value for the additional operational characteristic as a representative POS terminal;
- setting operational characteristics of a target POS terminal of the target service location to be equal to the operational characteristics of the representative POS terminal;
- and
- modifying a configuration of one or more POS terminals of the target service location as one of closed, open and manned, or open and unmanned based on the determining.
11-13. (canceled)
A system for optimizing an operational characteristic of a service location, the system comprising:
- a data storage device storing instructions for optimizing an operational characteristic of a service location in an electronic storage medium;
- and
- a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform a method including:
- receiving data for one or more operational characteristics for one or more reference service locations;
- receiving, from a user, a target value for an additional operational characteristic of a target service location;
- receiving data for one or more operational point of sale (POS) terminals for the target service location and/or from the reference service locations;
- calculating a predicted service rate based on the received operation characteristics and the received data for the operational POS terminals;
- calculating an average value of the additional operational characteristic for each of the operational POS terminals;
- selecting a POS terminal among the one or more operational POS terminals with a calculated average value of the additional operational characteristic that matches the target value for the additional operational characteristic as a representative POS terminal;
- setting operational characteristics of a target POS terminal of the target service location to be equal to the operational characteristics of the representative POS terminal;
- and
- modifying a configuration of one or more POS terminals of the target service location as one of closed, open and manned, or open and unmanned based on the determining.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computing system, causes the computing system to perform a method for optimizing an operational characteristic of a service location, the method including:
- receiving data for one or more operational characteristics for one or more reference service locations;
- receiving, from a user, a target value for an additional operational characteristic of a target service location;
- receiving data for one or more operational point of sale (POS) terminals for the target service location and/or from the reference service locations;
- calculating a predicted service rate based on the received operation characteristics and the received data for the operational POS terminals;
- calculating an average value of the additional operational characteristic for each of the operational POS terminals;
- selecting a POS terminal among the one or more operational POS terminals with a calculated average value of the additional operational characteristic that matches the target value for the additional operational characteristic as a representative POS terminal;
- setting operational characteristics of a target POS terminal of the target service location to be equal to the operational characteristics of the representative POS terminal;
- and
- modifying a configuration of one or more POS terminals of the target service location as one of closed, open and manned, or open and unmanned based on the determining.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.