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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 25, 2015
Airbnb, Inc., San Francicso, CA (US);
Bar Ifrach, San Francisco, CA (US);
David Michael Holtz, San Francisco, CA (US);
Yangli Hector Yee, San Francisco, CA (US);
Li Zhang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Airbnb, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure includes methods for predicting demand based on the price of a time-expiring inventory. An online system provides a connection between a manager of a time-expiring inventory and a plurality of clients. The online system provides a listing for the manager's time-expiring inventory to clients on the online system. The manager specifies the price of the time-expiring inventory in the listing. A demand function predicts the demand for the time-expiring inventory based on features of the listing and the time-expiring inventory. The online system determines a likelihood of receiving a request for the time-expiring inventory from a client on the online system based on the predicted demand. The online system may use the determined likelihoods to provide to the manager information about how changes in the price of the listing are likely to affect the demand for the time-expiring inventory.