- Patent Title: Selecting a warehouse location for displaying an inventory of items to a user of an online concierge system based on predicted availabilities of items at the warehouse over time
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Application No.: US17572450Application Date: 2022-01-10
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Publication No.: US12033172B2Publication Date: 2024-07-09
- Inventor: Ze He , Asif Haque , Allan Stewart , Haixun Wang , Xinyu Li
- Applicant: Maplebear Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Francisco
- Assignee: Maplebear Inc.
- Current Assignee: Maplebear Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Francisco
- Agency: Fenwick & West LLP
- Main IPC: G06Q30/0204
- IPC: G06Q30/0204 ; G06N3/049 ; G06N3/084 ; G06Q30/0282 ; G06Q30/0601

Abstract:
An online concierge system allows users to order items from a warehouse, which may have multiple warehouse locations. The online concierge system provides a user interface to users for ordering the items, with the user interface providing an indication of whether an item is predicted to be available at the warehouse at different times. To predict availability of an item model at different times, the online concierge system selects data from historical information about availability of items at one or more warehouses based on temporal, geospatial, and socioeconomic information about observations of historical availability of items at warehouses. The online concierge system accounts for distances between observations and a time and geographic location in a feature space to select observations for predicting item availability at the time and the geographic location.
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