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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2021
Maplebear Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Benjamin Knight, Oakland, CA (US);
Darren Johnson, Elko, NV (US);
Daniel Haugh, San Francisco, CA (US);
Saumitra Maheshwari, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Qi Xi, New York, NY (US);
Conor Woods, Berkeley, CA (US);
Maplebear Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
An online concierge system receives information from a warehouse including locations of items within the warehouse. When a shopper selects an order for fulfillment from the warehouse, the online concierge system sorts the items for the shopper to minimize the time spent in the warehouse using the received information. When the online concierge system does not receive a location of an item within the warehouse, the online concierge system obtains a taxonomy for the warehouse including multiple levels, with each level having a different level of specificity. The online concierge system determines a higher level in the taxonomy for the item and identifies other items offered by the warehouse having the determined category. The online concierge system infers a location of the item within the warehouse used for sorting items of the order from locations of the other items within the warehouse and times when shoppers retrieved the other items.