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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2013
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Bhavnish H. Lathia, Redmond, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
This disclosure is directed at least in part to dynamically determining triggering events and/or an amount of time to encumber inventory of an item. By encumbering inventory, the inventory of the item is made unavailable, at least temporarily, to other customers. Encumbrance may be based on one or more factors, which may include current on-hand inventory and/or a rate of sales for the item. However, many other factors may also be used in various combinations. Inventory of items may be encumbered for a dynamically determined amount of time. At the end of this time, the item may be released and made available to other customers assuming the item was not purchased in a completed transaction. The dynamic determination of the triggering event and the dynamic determination of an amount of time to encumber items may be deployed individually or in combination with each other.
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