Patent ID: 11961130
Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 16:
17. One or more computer storage devices, having computer-executable instructions for managing sale-restricted items that upon execution by a computer cause the computer to perform operations comprising:
displaying, via a graphical user interface (GUI), a list of sale-restricted items;
receiving, via the GUI, a selection of a sale-restricted item from the list of sale-restricted items, the selection associated with an unauthorized user;
responsive to receiving the selection of the sale-restricted item, sending a notification to a user device associated with an authorized user, the notification including an age verification prompt corresponding to the selected sale-restricted item associated with the unauthorized user, an identification of the selected sale-restricted item and a location of the selected sale-restricted item within a smart storage device, the smart storage device storing the sale-restricted items in lockable storage inaccessible to unauthorized users;
receiving age verification for the unauthorized user from the user device associated with the authorized user:
responsive to receiving the age verification for the unauthorized user, authorizing completion of the transaction corresponding to the selected sale-restricted item; and
responsive to the authorized completion of the transaction, sending an unlocking signal to the smart storage device, wherein the smart storage device is unlocked to obtain the selected sale-restricted item responsive to receiving the unlocking signal based on the authorization of the completion of the transaction.