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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2023
Maplebear Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Haochen Luo, Conroe, TX (US);
Eric Hermann, San Francisco, CA (US);
Rishab Saraf, Redmond, WA (US);
Abhinav Darbari, Kirkland, WA (US);
Teodor Lefter, Austin, TX (US);
Kenneth Jason Sanchez, Orange, CA (US);
Jagannath Putrevu, Daly City, CA (US);
Maplebear Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
An online concierge shopping system fulfills orders using workers who pick items at a warehouse to complete an order and workers to deliver the orders to a customer's location. To optimize the staffing of workers for each task, the system uses a trained model to predict the number of workers needed to achieve an optimal outcome based on an input set of contextual information. The system also schedules specific workers to various shifts using the predicted number of workers needed and then searching a feasibility space for an optimal solution. The trained model may be updated based on performance observations.