Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Systems and methods for setting product prices
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Application No.: US14502207Application Date: 2014-09-30
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Publication No.: US10402840B2Publication Date: 2019-09-03
- Inventor: Arnau Tibau-Puig , Laurent El Ghaoui , Nipun Bhatia
- Applicant: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US AR Bentonville
- Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
- Current Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US AR Bentonville
- Agency: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP
- Main IPC: G06Q30/02
- IPC: G06Q30/02

Abstract:
A dynamic pricing algorithm is used to price a large set of items so that their aggregate margin is above a pre-specified level even under uncertain demand. The algorithm automatically hedges the profit loss associated to low-margin items with profit gains associated to higher-margin items, and does so even when the realized demand is different than the expected one. The algorithm leverages the separability of a re-formulation of the robust counterpart of the nominal revenue maximization problem. This separability results into a nested bisection algorithm where each iteration in the procedure requires only computation of a number of independent, one-dimensional optimization problems, one for each product to price. The algorithm is easily implemented in a parallel architecture such a multi-core computer or a cluster of computers, where each core handles an independent one-dimensional problem corresponding to an item and its data is stored locally.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150363805A1 Systems And Methods For Setting Product Prices Public/Granted day:2015-12-17
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