Priya Padmanabhan

US Patent:

8423432, Apr 16, 2013

Filed:

Sep 3, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/553629

Inventors:

Priya Padmanabhan - Issaquah WA, US
Samir Kumar - Issaquah WA, US
Alexander C. Prater - Seattle WA, US
Prajakta Vaidya - Bellevue WA, US
Eric Young - Mercer Island WA, US

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc. - Reno NV

International Classification:

G06Q 40/00

US Classification:

705 28

Abstract:

Various embodiments of a system and method for authoritative item identification based on facility operations are described. Embodiments may include an authoritative item identification component configured to, for each particular item of multiple items in inventory of a materials handling facility, determine multiple identifiers for the particular item, where one or more of the multiple identifiers are electronically obtained from a unit of the particular item during operations of the materials handling facility. The authoritative item identification component may, for each of the multiple identifiers, determine a quantity of instances in which that identifier was electronically obtained from a given unit of the particular item. The authoritative item identification component may, based on a statistical analysis of the quantities, determine one of the multiple identifiers as being an authoritative identifier for the particular item. The authoritative item identification component may identify one or more units based on the authoritative identifiers.