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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2021
Maplebear, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Jagannath Putrevu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Zi Wang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Site Wang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Houtao Deng, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yijia Chen, Oakland, CA (US);
Mingzhe Zhuang, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Ji Chen, Mountain View, CA (US);
Deepak Tirumalasetty, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Maplebear Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
An online concierge system allows users to order items within discrete time intervals later than a time when an order was received. The online concierge system allocates a specified percentage of an estimated number of shoppers during a discrete time interval to fulfilling orders received before the discrete time interval. An order may include a flag authorizing flexible fulfillment of the order along with a discrete time interval, which allows the order to be fulfilled earlier than the identified discrete time interval. The online concierge system generates groups of multiple orders authorizing flexible fulfillment and determines a cost for fulfilling different groups of orders. The online concierge system identifies a group of orders authorizing flexible fulfillment having a minimum cost for fulfillment by a shopper, allowing for more allocation of shoppers by enabling grouping of orders identifying different discrete time intervals.