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公开(公告)号:US20230252049A1
公开(公告)日:2023-08-10
申请号:US17736716
申请日:2022-05-04
Applicant: Maplebear Inc. (dba Instacart)
Inventor: Taesik Na , Tejaswi Tenneti , Haixun Wang , Xiao Xiao
IPC: G06F16/28 , G06F16/2457 , G06F16/248 , G06K9/62
CPC classification number: G06F16/285 , G06F16/24573 , G06F16/24575 , G06F16/248 , G06K9/6276
Abstract: An online system leverages stored interactions with items made by users after the online system received queries to determine display of items satisfying the query. For example, the online system trains a model to predict a likelihood of a user performing an interaction with an item displayed after a query was received. As different items receive different amounts of interaction from users, limited historical interaction with certain items may limit accuracy of the model. The online system generates embeddings for previously received queries and uses measures of similarity between embeddings for queries to generate clusters of queries. Previous interactions with queries in a cluster are combined, with the combined data being used for determining display of items in response to a query.
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公开(公告)号:US20230245213A1
公开(公告)日:2023-08-03
申请号:US17591584
申请日:2022-02-02
Applicant: Maplebear Inc. (dba Instacart)
Inventor: Reza Faturechi , Site Wang , Jagannath Putrevu
CPC classification number: G06Q30/0635 , G06N3/084 , G06Q10/0633
Abstract: An online concierge identifies orders to shoppers, allowing shoppers to select orders for fulfillment. The online concierge system may generate batches that include multiple orders, allowing a shopper to select a batch to fulfill multiple orders. As orders are continuously being received, delaying identification of orders to shoppers may allow greater batching of orders. To allow greater opportunities for batching, the online concierge system estimates a benefit for delaying identification of an order by different time intervals and predicts an amount of time to fulfill the order. The online concierge system then delays assigning orders for which there is a threshold benefit for delaying and selects a time interval for delaying identification of the order that does not result in greater than a threshold likelihood of a late fulfillment of the order.
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公开(公告)号:US20230214774A1
公开(公告)日:2023-07-06
申请号:US17570038
申请日:2022-01-06
Applicant: Maplebear Inc. (dba Instacart)
Inventor: Joey Loi , Viswa Mani Kiran Peddinti , Eugene Agronin , John Salaveria
CPC classification number: G06Q10/0875 , G06Q30/0635 , G06N20/00
Abstract: An online concierge system displays an ordering interface to users that displays items offered by various warehouses. The online concierge system includes machine learning availability model that estimates an item's availability and visually distinguishes items offered by a warehouse having less than a threshold availability from other items. Because information from a warehouse that an item that was out of stock is now in stock is often delayed, the online concierge system transmits a request to a shopper fulfilling an order to check for an item's availability at a warehouse. For example, the online concierge system allows users to include a request for an indication of an item's availability when placing an order. When the online concierge system receives a threshold number of requests for the item, the online concierge system prompts a shopper fulfilling an order including items near the item for the item's availability.
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公开(公告)号:US20230162038A1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-25
申请号:US17534184
申请日:2021-11-23
Applicant: Maplebear Inc. (dba Instacart)
Inventor: Peng Qi , Zhenbang Chen
CPC classification number: G06N3/084 , G06N3/04 , G06Q30/0202
Abstract: An online system uses a trained model predicting likelihoods of a user performing a specific interaction with items to order or to rank items for display to the user. The online system trains the model using interactions by users with items displayed by the online system. However, selection, popularity, and position from display of the items affects the model during training. To improve the model, the online system further trains the model using additional training data obtained from displaying items to users in different orders. The further training is done on a limited portion of the model, such as a limited number of layers of the model, to improve the model performance while reducing an amount of additional data to acquire to further train the model.
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公开(公告)号:US20230146336A1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-11
申请号:US17524491
申请日:2021-11-11
Applicant: Maplebear Inc. (dba Instacart)
Inventor: Haixun Wang , Taesik Na , Tejaswi Tenneti , Saurav Manchanda , Min Xie , Chuan Lei
CPC classification number: G06Q30/0603 , G06N20/00
Abstract: To simplify retrieval of items from a database that at least partially satisfy a received query, an online concierge system trains a model that outputs scores for items from the database without initially retrieving items for evaluation by the model. The online concierge system pre-trains the model using natural language inputs corresponding to items from the database, with a natural language input including masked words that the model is trained to predict. Subsequently, the model is refined using multi-task training where a task is trained to predict scores for items from the received query. The online concierge system selects items for display in response to the received query based on the predicted scores.
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公开(公告)号:US20230113122A1
公开(公告)日:2023-04-13
申请号:US18080118
申请日:2022-12-13
Applicant: Maplebear Inc. (dba Instacart)
Inventor: Sharath Rao , Shishir Prasad , Jeremy Stanley
IPC: G06Q10/087 , G06Q10/0631 , G06Q10/067
Abstract: A method for predicting inventory availability, involving receiving a delivery order including a plurality of items and a delivery location, and identifying a warehouse for picking the plurality of items. The method retrieves a machine-learned model that predicts a probability that an item is available at the warehouse. The machine-learned model is trained, using machine learning, based in part on a plurality of datasets. The plurality of datasets include data describing items included in previous delivery orders, whether each item in each previous delivery order was picked, a warehouse associated with each previous delivery order, and a plurality of characteristics associated with each of the items. The method predicts the probability that one of the plurality of items in the delivery order is available at the warehouse, and generates an instruction to a picker based on the probability. An instruction is transmitted to a mobile device of the picker.
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公开(公告)号:US20230062937A1
公开(公告)日:2023-03-02
申请号:US17458127
申请日:2021-08-26
Applicant: Maplebear Inc. (dba Instacart)
Inventor: Xinyu Li , Haixun Wang , Ruoming Jin
IPC: G06Q10/06 , G06Q30/06 , G06Q10/04 , G06Q10/08 , G06F16/901
Abstract: An online concierge system generates a suggested picking sequence to reduce the amount of time for a shopper to fulfill an online order of items from a warehouse. The online concierge system determines an average amount of time to sequentially pick items between different aisle pairs for a warehouse based on timestamps from item fulfillment in historical orders. The system generates a distance graph including aisle nodes connected by edges representing the pairwise distance between aisles. The system solves a traveling salesperson problem to generate a ranked order of aisle nodes for each of the historical orders. The system generates a ranked global sequence of aisle nodes based on the plurality of ranked orders of aisle nodes. The system applies the ranked global sequence to new delivery orders to generate the suggested picking sequence for a shopper.
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公开(公告)号:US20230055163A1
公开(公告)日:2023-02-23
申请号:US17407079
申请日:2021-08-19
Applicant: Maplebear Inc. (dba Instacart)
Inventor: Gordon McCreight , Alex Charlton
IPC: G06Q30/00 , G06Q10/08 , G06F16/2458
Abstract: An online system receives an identification code for a product from a third party, which includes attributes that the third party uses to identify the product. The online system normalizes the identification code according to a set of guidelines received from the third party. The normalized identification code resembles previous identification codes received from the third party. The online system identifies a cluster of identification codes that represents the product identified by the normalized identification code by applying a set of matching rules to the normalized identification code and updates the identified cluster of identification codes to include the normalized identification code. The online system identifies a universal product identifier that represents the product of the cluster of the cluster of identification codes and stores the universal product identifier with the updated cluster of identification code.
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公开(公告)号:US20230036666A1
公开(公告)日:2023-02-02
申请号:US17387943
申请日:2021-07-28
Applicant: Maplebear Inc. (dba Instacart)
Inventor: Yilena Xu , Qingyuan Chen , Laurentia Romaniuk , Jonathan Newman , Josh Roberts , Conor Woods , Lorna Qin
Abstract: An online concierge system offers items for sale and uses different units of measurements for items, allowing users to purchase numbers of an item, a weight of an item, or a packages of an item. To avoid confusing users with multiple options for specifying a quantity of an item, the online concierge system determines whether to present an interface for purchasing an item by a number of the item, by weight of the item, or a number of packages in the item from dynamic information about the item. For example, the online concierge system obtains historical pricing information an items and computes a par-weight price for the item from prior purchases of the item. The online concierge system uses the par-weight of the item to select an interface for a user when purchasing the item.
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公开(公告)号:US20220414747A1
公开(公告)日:2022-12-29
申请号:US17358081
申请日:2021-06-25
Applicant: Maplebear Inc.(dba Instacart)
Inventor: Changyao Chen , Peng Qi , Weian Sheng , Chuanwei Ruan , Qiao Jiang
Abstract: An online concierge system enables users to create lists of items and generate a link allowing other receiving users to access a list by selecting the link. When a receiving user selects the link, the online concierge system generates a user-specific list from the original list. The user-specific list includes user-specific items selected for the receiving user that replace items in the original list based on item availability to the receiving user, receiving user preferences, and other receiving user-specific criteria. The receiving user can then view the user-specific items in the user-specific list via an interface allowing the user-specific items in the user-specific list to be included in an order in a single interaction.
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