The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2022
Maplebear Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Krishna Kumar Selvam, Cupertino, CA (US);
Mouna Cheikhna, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael Chen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dylan Wang, Emeryville, CA (US);
Joseph Cohen, New York, NY (US);
Tahmid Shahriar, New York, NY (US);
Graham Adeson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ajay Pankaj Sampat, San Francisco, CA (US);
Maplebear Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
An online concierge system iteratively makes a batch of one or more orders available to an increasing number of shoppers to choose to fulfill. Each shopper may choose to accept or reject a batch for fulfillment. To improve batch acceptance and matching between batches and shoppers, the batches are scored with respect to expected resource costs, likelihood of acceptance by the shopper, and/or other quality metrics to iteratively offer the batch to an increasing number of shoppers (prioritizing the scoring factors) until a shopper accepts. The number of shoppers notified of the batch and the frequency that additional shoppers are selected may vary based on characteristics of the batch and likelihood the batch will be accepted by a shopper.