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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2015
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Tolga Han Seyhan, Seattle, WA (US);
Ali Sadighian, Seattle, WA (US);
Salal Humair, Sammamish, WA (US);
Jialei Rong, Bellevue, WA (US);
Haiyun Wang, Seattle, WA (US);
Deepak Bhatia, Issaquah, WA (US);
Zhihao Chen, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Abid Kapadya, Seattle, WA (US);
Julie Wei-Shu Chang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are provided herein for utilizing an inventory engine to optimize the selection of a set of items to be stored as inventory at a storage location. A candidate set of items may be identified based at least in part on a selection model. In accordance with at least one embodiment, the selection model may be based at least in part on a capacity of the storage location and a threshold time duration by which purchased items of the set of items are to be transported from the storage location to a purchaser. A plurality of probability values corresponding to the candidate set of items may be determined. An optimal set of items may be determined based at least in part on the candidate set of items and the plurality of probability values.