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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2021
Maplebear, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Nicholas William Sturm, Lake Forest, IL (US);
Bryan Daniel Bor, Pittsburg, CA (US);
Konrad Gustav Miziolek, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ajay Pankaj Sampat, San Francisco, CA (US);
Darren Bartholomew Johnson, Elko, NV (US);
Maplebear Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
An online concierge system receives orders from users that include items from one or more warehouses. The online concierge system identifies the orders to shoppers, who select one or more orders to fulfill. The online concierge system uses models to estimate orders likely to be received at different times and shoppers likely to be available to fulfill orders at different times. Responsive to greater than a threshold difference between estimated orders and estimated shoppers during a time interval, the online concierge system selects one or more incentives for shoppers to select orders during the time interval to entice shoppers to select orders during the time interval. An interface displayed to the shoppers by the online concierge system may present a map of warehouses and their estimated number of orders and allow shoppers to identify incentives offered for fulfilling orders at different warehouses during the time interval.