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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2020
Groupon, Inc., Chicago, IL (US);
Shafiq Shariff, Chicago, IL (US);
Rajesh Parekh, Chicago, IL (US);
Bob Beaty, Chicago, IL (US);
Feili Hou, San Francisco, CA (US);
GROUPON, INC., Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for forecasting demand. An example method comprises generating a virtual offer for one or more combinations of a category or sub-category, location, and price range, accessing consumer data comprising one or more users and user data related to each of the one or more users, calculating a probability that a particular user would buy a particular offer in a particular time frame for at least a portion of the plurality of users and for each of the virtual offers, and determining an estimated number of units of to be sold for at least a portion of the one or more virtual offers as a function of at least the probability associated with each of the one or more virtual offers.